Professors of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology Diana Bautista and David Bilder are among seven Berkeley faculty members elected to American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS fellows are recognized for their achievements across disciplines and have a distinguished lifetime honor within the scientific community. Read more about the 2024 AAAS fellows here. 

March 27, 2025

The College will host climate advocate and investor Tom Steyer for the Albright Lecture in Conservation on Wednesday, April 2. His talk is entitled “Climate Capitalism: A Way Forward in 2025.”

 

Bioengineering Chair Phillip Messersmith has been named to the 2024 class of fellows elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals. Messersmith was recognized for “distinguished contributions to the understanding of wet biological adhesion, and for…

March 27, 2025

During its second year, the Stone Center for Environmental Stewardship has advanced cutting-edge research on barriers to wildlife migration around Yellowstone National Park and launched new partnerships. 

March 26, 2025

A new Nature Energy study led by Rausser College researchers reveals how central banks in 47 countries differ in their response to climate risks.

March 25, 2025

The Albany property hosted one of the largest populations of overwintering monarch butterflies as numbers across California dropped to a near-record low.

Associate Professor of Molecular Therapeutics Helen Bateup and Associate Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine Sarah Stanley are among five UC Berkeley instructors to receive the 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award. This award is the campus's highest honor for teaching excellence. The recipients will be honored at the Distinguished Teaching Award Ceremony on Wednesday, April 23, at 5:30 p.m. in the West Pauley Ballroom, Martin Luther King Jr. Student Center.

Congratulations to José Pablo Vázquez-Medina for being co-awarded the 2025 David Blackwell Award. The Blackwell Award is given annually to a recently tenured professor in the College of Letters & Science who embodies the values and aspirations of the College in scholarship, teaching and mentorship, and service, and who serves as an inspiration to others in the campus community.

March 20, 2025

The Department of Nutritional Science and Toxicology professor spoke to the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences about his lab's research.

Professor of Integrative Biology, Robert Full and colleagues, published two complementary papers today revealing how squirrel agility inspired a robot to make a stable branch to branch landing.

Read more about squirrel and robot agility via this UC Berkeley News link here

March 19, 2025

ESPM PhD candidate McKalee Steen became the first graduate student researcher at the Schmidt Center this January, contributing to their research on Indigenous data sovereignty.

March 18, 2025

Professor Dara O’Rourke explores Amazon’s decarbonization efforts in a new case study published in the California Management Review.

March 17, 2025

Four ESPM graduate students received funding from the Joseph A. Myers Center small grant program to support their research.

March 12, 2025

A Stanford Medicine study co-authored by NST researchers identified a peptide that suppressed appetite and led to weight loss in mice and pigs without the side effects associated with Ozempic.