Roundtable discussion — including UC Davis sociologist Elizabeth Sweet — addresses the gendered marketing of toys.

UC Riverside's Reza Aslan, a scholar of religions, shares his family's efforts to bring together their backgrounds of faith.

English professor Scott Saul discusses his new book, 'Becoming Richard Pryor' — a richly researched biography about the comedian that's accompanied by a website, “Richard Pryor’s Peoria,” which presents more than 200 photographs and documents from Pryor’s first two decades in Peoria, Ill.

UC San Francisco star innovator has spent his career bringing science from lab bench to the patient bedside.

UC Berkeley's Michael Pollan came to San Diego to receive Scripps’ 2014 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest.

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.

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

New research suggests that people’s ability to spot liars is buried deeply in the unconscious mind.

UC Davis hosts its 100th annual Picnic Day on Saturday. The Doxie Derby is a feature of the public event, which highlights teaching, research, service and campus life.

UC San Diego's Brian Keating helped design, build and analyze data from the BICEP2 telescope that found evidence of “cosmic inflation” less than a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.

UC Santa Cruz's Craig Haney weighs in on the issue of solitary confinement becoming a more long-term and widely used punishment in prison.

Nobel laureate Randy Schekman is a UC Berkeley professor and a UCLA alumnus. From the pinnacle of achievement, Schekman credits public higher education as the foundation of his success. Schekman will participate in UC's Graduate Research Day, calling for more student support.