Creative-writing professor, religious scholar and best-selling author Reza Aslan is slated to host 'Believer,' a 'spiritual adventure series' scheduled to debut next year.

UC Irvine's Kristen Monroe and others examine the factors that drive people to help or to turn a blind eye.

UC Merced's Roger Bales and Roland Winston make the case that the controversial oil pipeline represents America's past, not its future.

With venture capital for clean energy investments drying up, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is nurturing entrepreneurs.

Aren't we all? It's the work of brain science, and UC Santa Barbara neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga discusses where the next big breakthroughs in understanding the brain will come from.

UCOP will fund student awards in support of UC’s Carbon Neutrality Initiative and other university sustainability efforts.

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.