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Four seniors named 2025 Babcock Prize recipients
May 16, 2025 Endowed as a tribute to longtime soil chemistry professor Kenneth Babcock, the prize recognizes high-achieving ESPM undergraduates.
Monica Kapil named SJSU Mechanical Engineering Alumna of the Year
Outstanding faculty awards
Congratulations to our faculty who received the departmental 2025 MCB Outstanding Faculty Awards!
Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology Gloria Brar – Outstanding Contribution to Teaching
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology Meng-meng Fu – Outstanding Contribution to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
Professor of Molecular Therapeutics Michael Rapé – Outstanding Contribution to Service
Student Spotlight: Nikita Bahadur
May 15, 2025 The graduating molecular environmental biology major spoke to Rausser College about her time at UC Berkeley and plans for the future.
How to Decipher a Forest
May 14, 2025 ESPM professor emerit Nancy Peluso has spent her career analyzing entanglements between human and natural worlds.
Flamingo Biomechanics Behind Prey-Catching Tornadoes
IB Assistant Professor Victor Ortega Jiménez and a team of researchers have documented how flamingos use their feet, heads and beaks to create a storm of swirling tornados in the water to efficiently trap and then eat their prey. Read more in the Berkeley News article here.
Trump is laying the groundwork to privatize America’s national parks, write Jon Jarvis and Gary Machlis
May 13, 2025 Former Director of the UC Berkeley Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity Jon Jarvis co-authored an Op-Ed published in The Guardian May 12th.
Empowering Global Scholars
May 12, 2025 Donor-funded fellowships are supporting global scholars and solutions.
ERG alum Malini Ranganathan wins Anthony Leeds Book Prize
May 09, 2025 Ranganathan, PhD '15 Energy and Resources, was recognized by the Critical Urban Anthropology Association for the innovative methodological and theoretical contributions to urban anthropology of her latest book, Corruption Plots.
LA’s communities of color bear a disproportionate burden of air pollution
May 08, 2025 A recent study led by ESPM researchers found that disadvantaged communities in Los Angeles experience significantly higher concentrations and emissions of hazardous air pollutants than non-disadvantaged communities.
A World of Climate Data
May 07, 2025 Rausser College researchers are helping lead a collaborative network of scientists measuring the breathing of the biosphere around the globe.
Lareau named MTI Innovator
Gustinvil named Outstanding GSI
Dan Kammen elected to National Academy of Sciences
May 06, 2025 The energy and resources group professor is one of eight UC Berkeley faculty elected this year.
Indigenous knowledge helps biotech find new drugs. This grad student wants those companies to give back.
Sabeeha Merchant on life, photosynthesis, and genomics
May 06, 2025 Merchant, a professor in PMB and Molecular and Cell Biology, recently wrote about the history of her research in the Journal of Molecular Biology.
Narimane Chatar awarded MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship
Narimane Chatar, a current NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Jack Tseng’s lab, was awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship. Read more...
How ecosystems contribute to Colombia’s energy and water sectors
May 02, 2025 A new study demonstrates how natural capital accounting approaches can be used to value the economic benefits of ecosystems in Colombia’s Upper Sinú Basin.
Student Spotlight: Steven Zeng
May 01, 2025 The third-year environmental economics and policy student spoke to Rausser College about his journey to UC Berkeley and love of film production.
Rausser College recognized by the Annual Giving Network
April 30, 2025 Efforts by College Relations staff to update the communications preferences for the College’s constituents were given an honorable mention in the Best in Annual Giving Awards.