UC Berkeley

Awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, Anne Carson has a special place in UC Berkeley’s literary history, having taught poetry and classics at Berkeley in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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UC Berkeley psychologist Jasmin Brooks Stephens is addressing rising suicide rates among Black youth through a new approach to prevention. Her work highlights how cultural identity, family, belonging, and hope can support young people’s mental health long before a crisis occurs.
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UC Berkeley helped make IceCube a success — earning Francis Halzen the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics. Berkeley physicist Buford Price was an early supporter of Halzen’s idea to detect high-energy neutrinos in Antarctic ice, helping turn the ambitious experiment into reality.
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@AreBerkeley discusses water safety in the US in a recent @rff podcast.

A new study by first-year astrophysics (@BerkeleyPhysics) student Julian Shapiro may solve a puzzle regarding isolated galaxies that have stopped producing stars.
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During a fireside chat at UC Berkeley, Senator Lisa Murkowski (@lisamurkowski) traced her path to the U.S. Senate, revisited the write-in campaign that defined her career, and discussed the erosion of public trust in Congress and the toll party politics has taken on bipartisan work. bit.ly/4hIhTA7

“When you start to put together the benefits of loving... it is good for life expectancy, strong social support adds 10 years of life expectancy.”

UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner explores the science of love, highlighting how it may have profound consequences for our health and survival.

Agreements made by the Trump administration allow migrants to be quickly deported to foreign nations they had no previous connection to, according to a new report from @hrcberkeley examining how these agreements are reshaping deportation and access to legal protections.
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A first-of-its-kind project at UC Berkeley uses AI to map millions of local laws, making it easier for policymakers and the public to compare ordinances between communities and examine what works — or does not.
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UC Berkeley researchers found that Americans often rely on mental shortcuts when navigating complex political issues, rather than weighing every factor — offering new insight into how people form opinions and make decisions on issues such as immigration and climate policy.
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Tribal members saw pinyon-juniper woodlands declining — ecosystems important to Indigenous communities and the Eastern Sierra landscape. @ESPM_Berkeley scientists are part of a three-year collaboration with Tribal nations, federal agencies, volunteers and university researchers to understand these changes and inform stewardship.
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Forbidden Stories (@FbdnStories) and UC Berkeley Journalism (@ucbsoj) join forces to launch a flagship, cross-border investigative lab connecting newsrooms worldwide to pursue and amplify public-interest stories facing threats or attempts to silence them.
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UC Berkeley researchers found that chimpanzees steal less pineapple from their friends — and expect them to do the same. The study offers new insight into how friendship, social expectations and cooperation may have evolved in humans.
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UC Berkeley has once again been named the top public university in North America in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

This adds to the growing list of #1 rankings Berkeley has earned this year, including ones from PitchBook, Forbes and U.S. News & World Report. news.berkeley.edu/2026/09/30/uc-…

What was once waste-bound could soon help California tackle both its wildfire and affordable housing problems.

UC Berkeley Wood Lab co-director Paul Mayencourt is reinventing engineered wood, turning salvaged and unusable pieces into a sustainable, inexpensive material now entering mass production.
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In a major new UC Berkeley project, former Gov. Gray Davis tells the story of his life and times during an era of profound change and innovation that shaped modern California.
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From getting lost in Dwinelle Hall to mentoring 1,000 students, Rhetoric alum Terry Allen is proving that at UC Berkeley, success is only the beginning — service is the goal.
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If you had six months to live. How would you want to spend it?

After a double-lung transplant, UC Berkeley professor Greg Niemeyer turned to art to explore water, circulation and what sustains life.
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UC Berkeley researchers are using evidence from the eruption that destroyed Pompeii to refine a key method scientists use to date Earth’s history — potentially helping geologists, paleontologists and archaeologists more accurately date geological events of the past.
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New @ESPM_Berkeley research reveals a hidden carbon cycle in desert soils — one that could account for a surprisingly large share of the planet’s annual carbon exchange.
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