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UC Berkeley joining new statewide biodiversity research alliance
ESPM professor Christopher Schell will help coordinate a three-year effort to enhance biodiversity and environmental equity research.
Confronting biodiversity data’s inequities
Several ESPM researchers call attention to how biodiversity data could further entrench systemic inequities.
Designing energy policy for peace
A new book co-edited by ERG professor Daniel Kammen explores how energy policy can address structural violence.
Taxes on sugar-sweetened drinks drive decline in consumption
A UC-led study shows that purchases of sugar-sweetened beverages declined dramatically and steadily across five North American cities after excise taxes were placed on the products.
Historic PG&E rate increases will hit hard in 2024
Agricultural and Resource Economics professor Meredith Fowlie spoke to KQED about what Pacific Gas and Electric's latest rate increase could hold for customers and the utility.
Adventures of a Bone Hunter
Credit: Keren Mevorach; copyright UC Museum of Paleontology
As part of the "Lost Women of Science" podcast, Scientific American just shared a new episode. This episode features Annie Alexander, the founder of Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and a major contributor to many of the natural history research collections at UC Berkeley. Katie Hafner and Carol Sutton Lewis visit the UC Berkeley collections (all closely tied to the Department of Integrative Biology) to learn more...
Dounda named 2024 Biophysical Society Fellow
Jennifer Doudna, professor of molecular therapeutics, was named a 2024 Society Fellow by the Biophysical Society. This award honors those who demonstrate excellence in science and was given for her development of a method for genome editing. Read more...
Patrick Gonzalez honored by Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks
The ESPM faculty member and Parks Institute director received the organization's 2023 George Hartzog Award, which recognizes an individual for their outstanding support of the mission of the National Park Service