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The number of first-year enrolled students declaring majors in the arts and humanities is up 121 percent over last year.

Gov. Gavin Newsom on July 22 appointed four new regents, subject to confirmation by the state Senate. The terms run 12 years and provide no compensation. The newly named regents:

Gov. Gavin Newsom on July 22 appointed four new regents, subject to confirmation by the state Senate. The terms run 12 years and provide no compensation. The newly named regents:

Gov. Gavin Newsom on July 22 appointed four new regents, subject to confirmation by the state Senate. The terms run 12 years and provide no compensation. The newly named regents:

In the 2016 sci-fi movie "Arrival," a linguist and a theoretical physicist race against time to communicate with endangered extraterrestrial heptapods wishing to share their wisdom and technologies with the human race so it will survive and one day return the favor.

Researchers are attempting to decipher the Morse code-like communications sperm whales teach each other.

UC Berkeley selected Oliver O’Reilly as the vice provost for undergraduate education and Victoria Plaut as the vice provost for faculty. 

The university seems set to replicate the mistakes of past climate research: soliciting oil and gas funding while paying lip service to environmental justice.

Aiming to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss among other environmental challenges, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife are giving $12.6 million...

UC Berkeley PhD candidates Jessie Moravek and Kendall Calhoun combine sensor arrays and data science to study the impacts of fire and drought on California’s biodiversity.