Poulumi Saha, wearing black rimmed glasses and a black and white blouse, smiles faintly for a shoulders-up portrait, with wood paneled walls in the background.
UC Berkeley |

Why we're so obsessed with cults

"In this crisis moment, we have a return to desire for overarching meaning, radical acceptance, transformative experience, transcendence," says the UC Berkeley professor of English and co-director of the Program in Critical Theory.
Two reddish plants
UC Riverside |

Speaking in color: Plants transformed into detectors of dangerous chemicals

Scientists have engineered a way for a plant to show the presence of a banned pesticide in water without affecting its other functions.
UC Berkeley football stadium from above without the Pac-12 logo
California Magazine |

From Kumbaya to Lord of the Flies

Chancellor Christ on how the Pac-12 fell apart and Cal’s future in the ACC.
Two people in silhouette look at a large series of screens with visuals of different California landscapes, and a topographical video map of California to the left
UC Newsroom |

UC claims 4 spots on TIME’s “Best Inventions of 2023” list

The magazine recognizes four inventions developed or advanced in UC laboratories among 200 products that TIME’s editors describe as “changing how we live, work, play, and think about what’s possible.”
A photo collage in the form of a puzzle with blue and red pieces, with images of dissenters protesting
UC Berkeley |

Rescuing dissent: Inside the year-long mission to bring prominent Putin critics to UC Berkeley

Russian social science professors Ilya Matveev and Ilya Budraitskis, renowned for their expertise on authoritarianism, fled their country after Russia invaded Ukraine. A faculty and staff coalition helped give them a safe harbor at UC Berkeley.
Three smiling teenagers sitting close together on a couch, one is holding a TV remote
UCLA |

Romance or nomance? Adolescents prefer to see less sex, more friendships, platonic relationships on screen

Teens and young adults think romance is overused in the media they consume.
The Finlayson family, a man, woman and 4 kids, poses for a photograph in front of a mountain landscape.
UC San Francisco |

Two daughters, a rare blood disorder and a fairytale cure

UCSF Benioff Oakland helps 90% of kids with beta thalassemia end transfusions.
Shelley Taylor, white woman with blonde hair cut in a bob, wearing a pink sweater, smiles at the camera sitting at her desk, with a monitor and a potted planted in the background.
UC Newsroom |

Three extraordinary UC faculty awarded National Medals at White House ceremony

They received the nation’s highest honor for their scientific and technological achievements.
Four firefighters stand against a backdrop of flames. The scene is dark, and 2 young male firefighters hold a device with a long antenna
UC Newsroom |

New UC-backed research is helping California communities respond to the climate crisis

Artist rendering of an office campus with the bay in the background
UC Berkeley |

Berkeley Space Center at NASA Ames to become innovation hub for new aviation, space technology

UC Berkeley will develop a 36-acre site to house companies, labs and students in heart of Silicon Valley.
An artist's concept of early human children living and playing on the margins of a wetland is what is today New Mexico.
UC Berkeley |

Tests confirm humans tramped around North America more than 20,000 years ago

A new study coauthored by a UC Berkeley professor provides "seemingly incontrovertible proof" that humans arrived in the Americas thousands of years earlier than scientists have long thought.
A man in a straw hat uses a wooden stick to start a fire in a brush pile while 6 people watch.
UC Santa Barbara |

A Chumash cultural burn reignites ancient practice for wildland conservation

“We're active in cultural revitalization, language revitalization, and doing this burn is one of those missing puzzle pieces,” said Robyne Redwater, whose family hails from villages in Santa Barbara and the Channel Islands.
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