UC Berkeley English professor Robert Hass has received the Wallace Stevens Prize from the Academy of American Poets, adding to his honors that already include a Pulitzer Prize and serving as the U.S. Poet Laureate from 1995 to 1997.

You know about income inequality thanks to Berkeley's Emmanuel Saez, a John Bates Clark medalist and MacArthur 'genius" fellow who keeps a low profile.

UCSF neurosurgeon and UC Berkeley engineering students join forces on a new and improved device to aid in stem cell treatments.

Discoveries and contributions from 60 UC laureates underscore the value of investing in basic research.

We love to see giant dinosaur fossils in museums, but microfossils are everywhere, geoscientist Lisa White tells school kids. An African-American woman in one of the least diverse scientific fields, White directs education and public programs at the Museum of Paleontology.

UC Berkeley professor won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the laser.

Berkeley Lab's Ashok Gadgil puts engineering to work for humanity.

A book by UC Santa Barbara professor Mario García offers young Latinos a new narrative.

Robert Dudley discusses his new book, the evidence that our attraction to alcohol is an evolutionary adaptation, and what this means for efforts to prevent alcohol abuse.

Roger Beachy joins policymaking body of National Science Foundation, which advises Congress and the president on science and engineering issues.

Professor among first recipients of new award created by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Russian tech billionaire Yuri Milner.

Donald Neuen officially retired at the age of 80 with a stirring concert at UCLA's Royce Hall.