Berkeley tied for the magazine’s closely watched No. 1 public university ranking for 2027. Three campus economics programs and the data analytics and science program were deemed the best among all U.S ...

You’re hurrying out of the grocery story to drive home and start cooking dinner. As the doors close behind you, you step into the parking lot and head… where? Where, among the rows of gleaming ...

A historian explains how the economic system that shapes every aspect of our lives came to be — and why none of it was ...

The exhibition Nancy Lee Katz: A Private Pantheon opens at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life on Sept. 2. Courtesy of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, UC Berkeley August 25, ...

In this first-person narrative, incoming English transfer student Michael Battisto reflects on growing up discouraged from reading, cooking for top chefs at Chez Panisse and the thrill of studying his ...

In an early sequence of Robert Reich’s new film, “The Work in Progress,” two young men sit beneath an arching canopy, surrounded by wintry Iowa fields. We know almost nothing about them: One is a ...

For the fourth year in a row, UC Berkeley graduates have founded more venture-backed companies than undergraduate alumni from any other university in the world, according to the 2026 PitchBook ...

Water has always been one of California’s most contested resources. For more than a century, battles have raged over how much of the state’s water should be diverted to farmland, pumped into cities or ...

We should act now to regulate autonomous weapons, rather than wait for a mass-casualty event, says UC Berkeley’s Stuart Russell. He’s been delivering this message for more than a decade, yet the ...

Each August marks an exciting time at UC Berkeley: the arrival of thousands of new students, who gather the week before classes begin to move in, attend convocation, meet their classmates and make new ...

A sample of the photos used to assess the human eye’s response to natural scenes. The response of photoreceptors in the eye are helping researchers understand why our brain perceives color as a ...

The secret to a long life may lie in the genomes of the longest-lived mammals for their size: bats. That idea captivated Juan Manuel Vazquez when he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago ...