Berkeley Research Infrastructure Commons (RIC), Field Stations, Research Forests, and Museums. TOUGH ODDS. Bay Area scientists have captured the real-time electrical activity of a beating heart, using a sheet of graphene to record an optical image almost like a video camera of the faint electric fields generated by the rhythmic firing of the hearts muscle cells. Magnetars are bizarre objects massive, spinning neutron stars with magnetic fields among the most powerful known, capable of shooting off brief bursts of radio waves so bright theyre visible across the universe. Ph.D. student investigates, A new technique could make some plastic trash compostable at home, Spin-TOF: A One-of-a-Kind Tool for Studying Spin-Dependent Electronic Properties, Sharing Sensitive Data without Showing it, Six faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, New process makes biodegradable plastics truly compostable, In calculating the social cost of methane, equity matters, First-of-its-kind study links wildfire smoke to skin disease, Dean Emeritus Stephen Shortell named to Modern Healthcares Hall of Fame, Evan Miller awarded 2021 Donald S. Noyce Undergraduate Teaching Prize, Four ways to reduce inequity in heart failure rates, Ikhlaq Sidhu receives Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times Award, A protein voyage into cells enabled by a short helical protein, Improved desalination process also removes toxic metals to produce clean water, Tiny wireless implant detects oxygen deep within the body, Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights Initiative Receives Henry Luce Foundation Grant, Guggenheim fellowships awarded to four UC Berkeley faculty, SETI pioneer Dan Werthimer to receive Drake Award, CRISPR-Chip advance streamlines genetic testing for medical diagnostics and research, Despite New York Citys ambitious experiment in pre-K education, racial gaps continue to grow, Berkeley study finds, Looking for a Silver Bullet to Treat Childrens Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Authors John Newman and Nitash Balsara release 'Electrochemical Systems', Fourth Edition, Alivisatos and Grtzel receive the Frontiers Award for developing new nanomaterials applied in renewable energies, Wildfires devastation can linger long after the smoke has cleared, Study: Vermont ranks best in Covid-19 response. University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered a way to simplify the removal of toxic metals, like mercury and boron, during desalination to produce clean water, while at the same time potentially capturing valuable metals, such as gold. Promoting Diversity Can Help Answer That. EECS professor Michael Jordan named to Royal Society, Discarded ostrich shells provide timeline for our African ancestors, Eastern and Western house mice took parallel evolutionary paths, Measuring Your Ingredients: Topological Phases for Quantum Computing, Gabriel Zucman, L&S Economics Professor, Named 2021 Carnegie Fellow, COVID-19 infection raises risk of severe complications during pregnancy, After a blitz of police killings, reformers focus on the power of their unions, Where have all the vultures gone? But to reach their destination, these ungulates must successfully navigate the more than 6,000 kilometers (3,728 miles) of fencing that crisscrosses the region. Researchers project the housing gap will nearly double within a decade. Can fruit fly research help improve survival of cancer patients? Americans, and people across the world, watched in shock and alarm yesterday as hundreds of right-wing extremists stormed the U.S. Capitol while Congress was certifying the Electoral College votes that produced a victory for Democrat Joe Biden and a defeat for President Donald Trump. AI, big data and decentralized work are driving a surging demand for computing power. The University of California, Berkeleys Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP) is benefitting from five philanthropic gifts announced today that provide a total of $7 million to initiate a robust national conversation about psychedelics and society, to commence novel research studies on how psychedelic compounds alter our brain and behavior, and to launch a unique training curriculum for facilitators of the psychedelic experience. News | Research UC Berkeley A research team led by UC Berkeley professor Kristina Hill is mapping the growing "threat from below" as climate change raises coastal groundwater levels. A year ago, just after Bay Area governments imposed a shelter-in-place order to check the spread of a mysterious new coronavirus, Cristina Banks worried about how she would work from home. Whether chatting with friends at a dinner party or managing a high-stakes meeting at work, communicating with others in a group requires a complex set of mental tasks. A collaboration between synthetic chemists and synthetic biologists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has now overcome that hurdle, engineering bacteria that can make a molecule that, until now, could only be synthesized in a laboratory. "People are addicted to their smartphones," said Moskowitz. The Arc Institute launched Dec. 15, 2021, with the goal of developing a new model for collaborative research that brings together world-class research with unconstrained funding to enable new discoveries that improve human health. Going to work used to be so simple. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley have developed a method to stabilize the edges of graphene nanoribbons and directly measure their unique magnetic properties. In this talk I will describe experimental methods for identifying and manipulating the topological phase and associated Majorana quasiparticles in these devices. The National Academy of Medicine announced today that UC Berkeley law professor and bioethicist Osagie K. Obasogie will be among 100 new members elected to join its ranks this year. With Democratic voters energized and far outnumbering California Republicans, Gov. Create a market for small trees A new analysis by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, provides a roadmap for how the state can effectively reduce wildfire risk through forest thinning while continuing to limit its carbon emissions. New UC Berkeley analysis suggests that trees preferring cooler climates are dying, and the new trees replacing them are not better suited to a warming climate. We have a killer team, so I am looking forward to the next chapter of MAVEN.. A new study led by researchers at University of California, Berkeley, and Washington University explored the function of one component of this junk DNA, transposons, which are selfish DNA sequences able to invade their host genome. Scientists find surprising clues in yeast, Trio of gifts, $75 million, accelerates transformation of computing and data science at Berkeley. News | Research UC Berkeley Each year, thousands of migratory mule deer and pronghorn antelope journey northwest from their winter homes to their summer homes in the mountainous landscape near Grand Teton National Park. Research overview At Berkeley, we address the biggest challenges of the day to create a better world. Chancellor Carol T. Christ shines spotlight on pioneering AI Research As companies debate the impact of large-scale remote work, a new study of over 61,000 Microsoft employees found that working from home causes workers to become more siloed in how they communicate, engage in fewer real-time conversations, and spend fewer hours in meetings. But new experiments by indoor air researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) show that certain circumstances will result in poor mixing of room air, meaning airborne contaminants may not be effectively dispersed and removed by building level ventilation. The prestigious awards recognize scholars with impressive achievements in fields ranging from the natural sciences to the creative arts. May 18, 2023 What did the earliest animals look like? BERKELEY, CALIF. Today, the UC Berkeley Labor Center released a groundbreaking report that provides a new and comprehensive set of policy principles for worker technology rights in the United States. Three decades ago, child development researchers found that low-income children heard tens of millions fewer words in their homes than their more affluent peers by the time they reached kindergarten. The U.S. child care system is collapsing under the pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic, with tens of thousands of low-paid workers losing their jobs and hundreds of centers forced to close or scale back operations, according to new report from the UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE). Conservation ecologist Rebecca Brunner has discovered thatthe glass frogSachatamia orejuelacan be added to the list of species that make use of visual cues in response to their acoustic environments. The National Science Foundation has awarded $20 million over five years to the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Southern California to establish the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute for Advances in Optimization. At the same time, an ending of Moores Law and Dennards scaling are making it increasingly difficult (and expensive) to improve processor performance. With a diameter less than the length of Manhattan, they pack more mass than that of our sun, wield the largest magnetic field of any known object more than 10 trillion times stronger than a refrigerator magnet and spin on their axes every few seconds. But vaccine delivery isnt the only way that these particles can be used in the battle against COVID-19. Computing is at a momentous point today. But new research from UC Berkeleys Othering and Belonging Institute shows that these inequities are symptoms of a much more racially systemic problem residential segregation. Following the victory of Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the blast furnaces of conservative strategic communication have transformed critical race theory into something law professor Khiara M. Bridges doesnt recognize. Five UC Berkeley faculty members will join the AI Institute for Agent-based Cyber Threat Intelligence and Operation (ACTION). Less than two months before the recall vote, California Gov. You Did It Again. A stiff jaw in mammals is thought to be a side effect of establishing a uniquely mammalian hearing system. Those impacts are quantified in a metric called the social cost of carbon, considered a vital tool for making sound and efficient climate policies. A tomb with a view: Egyptologist recreates after-death experience, A mass exodus from California? Voters of color in California especially Latinx and Native American people face disproportionate risks during the coronavirus pandemic and are far more worried than white voters about job and income loss and access to medical care, according to a new poll by UC Berkeleys Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS). But in their nightly forays for fruit and nectar, they routinely solve many of the engineering challenges that have stalled efforts to develop safe, reliable and efficient autonomous vehicles. A study by researchers at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health finds a link between exposure to formaldehyde and an increased risk of developing brain diseases such as brain cancer, Alzheimers disease, Parkinsons disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. UC Berkeley physicist Norman Yao first described five years ago how to make a time crystal a new form of matter whose patterns repeat in time instead of space. Now, a team of researchers led by the Department of Energys Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley has compiled the most complete library yet of lanthanides and their potential toxicity by exposing bakers yeast, aka Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to lanthanide metals. UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Department Chair and Professor Juana Maria Rodrguez discusses her new book Puta Life and how the history of sex work is intertwined with the queer community's most pressing issues. Seeing in Super-Resolution A small clinical trial of a CRISPR cure for sickle cell disease, approved earlier this year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has received $17 million to enroll about nine patients, the first of which may be selected before the end of the year. Rising groundwater threatens thousands of toxic sites in the Bay Area. In a new paper published today in the journal Science, researchers at the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) at UC Berkeley and Gladstone Institutes used a new method to explore why some variants of SARS-CoV-2, like the Delta variant, are more transmissible and infectious than others. Research findingsreported in the journal Sciencepoint to a groundbreaking technology that outperforms commercial cool-roof systems in energy savings. In about one out of three, patients get an infusion containing the metal gadolinium as a contrast agent to improve imaging. Faculty and Research Faculty by Name Ana Arruda Ana Arruda Assistant Professor, Affiliated of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology Lab Homepage: https://arrudalab.org Full Directory Information Research Interests Metabolic adaptation in response to nutritional fluctuations is essential to maintain organismal homeostasis. UCSF and UC Berkeley will receive up to $53 million from Genentech over the course of the 10-year collaboration. For U.S. workers and students who have toiled remotely in isolation or in pods for the past year and a half, reentering offices, classrooms and other old stomping grounds, starting this fall, is likely to range from exhilarating to downright nerve-wracking. News | Research UC Berkeley Videos of squirrels leaping from bendy branches across impossibly large gaps, parkouring off walls, scrambling to recover from tricky landings are not just more YouTube content documenting the antics of squirrels. To Celeste Kidd the answer is simple: Its dangerous and perhaps the most concerning aspect of generative AIs rapid expansion. The system, which couples wearable biosensors with artificial intelligence (AI), could one day be used to control prosthetics or to interact with almost any type of electronic device. Theres a new garden at UC Berkeley, but for Adina Lewis and other Indigenous people in the campus community, its much more than flora and fauna. To support research that has the potential to forge new paths in the physical sciences, UC Berkeley launched the Heising-Simons Faculty Fellows program. With a new fiscal year approaching, local governments around the country will begin having discussions and debates about how to allocate their budgets. (Photo courtesy of Advance Peace). Near Complete Depolymerization Of Polyesters With Nano-Dispersed Enzymes (Nature) U.S. Army press release; Berkeley Lab story New process makes 'biodegradable' plastics truly compostable How many Tyrannosaurus rexes roamed North America during the Cretaceous period? The UC Berkeley Blum Center for Developing Economies announced today that a wide range of academic programing around food, energy, and water systems (FEWS) designed by and for Native Americans and other underrepresented student groups will expand substantially as a result of a new $10 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Arizona, in collaboration with the American Indian Higher Education Consortium and more than 20 additional partners. All rights reserved. This prediction, now known as Moores Law, has with some modification in 1975 been reliably prophetic until now. News | Research UC Berkeley A new study by the Othering and Belonging Institute looks at one county's embrace of the Institute's Targeted Universalism to approach their policies. Four UC Berkeley research entities have received research awards fromCalifornia 100, an ambitious statewide initiative to envision and shape the long-term success of the state. Young T. rexes had a powerful bite, even if only one-sixth that of their parents, Pandemic reveals low-wage workers need better protections, Analysis reveals global hot spots where new coronaviruses may emerge, Eye in the sky sensors reduce stress of in-home dementia care, Experiments validate the possibility of helium rain in Jupiter and Saturn, How antibiotic-filled poop helps bessbug beetles stay healthy, Chance phone call keeps alive scholars remarkable Amazonian legacy, Berkeley researchers demonstrate new technique for surface-sensitive second harmonic generation utilizing non-linear optics with a table-top laser, Should businesses require vaccines? The study shows that at least one family of transposons ancient viruses that have invaded our genome by the millions plays a critical role in viability in the mouse, and perhaps in all mammals. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have discovered that you can wake up each morning without feeling sluggish by paying attention to three key factors: sleep, exercise and breakfast. When a climate-warming gas such as carbon dioxide or methane is emitted into the atmosphere, its impacts may be felt years and even decades into the future in the form of rising sea levels, changes in agricultural productivity, or more extreme weather events, such as droughts, floods, and heat waves. Bakar Fellow. The order, disclosed late last week, is a clear violation of academic freedom, and it reflects a troubling rise of the neo-nationalism that threatens independent scholarship worldwide, says UC Berkeley scholar John Aubrey Douglass. Were fast approaching the limits of Moores Law at the same time as demands on microprocessor performances are continuing to grow at an ever more rapid pace. Berkeley News | News from the University of California, Berkeley Wearing face masks, particularly surgical masks, is truly effective in reducing the spread of COVID-19 in community settings, finds a new study led by researchers from Yale University, Stanford Medical School, the University of California, Berkeley, and the nonprofit Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA). https://t.co/NPYRFnU52I, Copyright 2023 UC Regents; all rights reserved, View UCBerkeleyOfficials profile on Instagram, View UCZAXKyvvIV4uU4YvP5dmrmAs profile on YouTube, Juana Maria Rodrguez: Sex work is a queer issue, Students at Death Penalty Clinic turn to video to make their case for justice, An escape room for families teaches fundamentals of evolution. Michael Jordan, UC Berkeleys Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and of Statistics, is among 10 foreign members elected today to the Royal Society, a prestigious honor accorded to researchers who have made exceptional contributions to science.. While the insurrection posed an existential threat to American democracy, Berkeley political and legal scholars say the arcane workings of the filibuster pose a threat, too, because it increasingly is being used to block majority rule. Five UC Berkeley assistant professors have been awarded 2021 Sloan Research Fellowships, which are one of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to early career researchers. A study led by researchers at the Keck Graduate Institute (KGI), UC Berkeley and Vilnius University demonstrated new disease-detection capabilities of a hand-held device based on CRISPR gene editing technology, a development that could lead to faster, portable genetic testing for diagnostics and research. Just how, exactly, no one could know. Karthik Shekhar has been awarded this scholarship for research on the evolution of neural diversity and patterning in the visual system. News Building the Materials for Next-Gen Tech Felix Fischer, a 2022 Heising-Simons Faculty Fellow, uses his organic chemistry background to build materials for next-generation computers, sensors and communications platforms. This is known as overcooling, where office temperatures are cooled beyond the comfort requirements of occupants. New Test Predicts if Impulsivity Is Pathological, $17 Million Will Launch Trial of CRISPR Cure for Sickle Cell Disease, Research Suggests More Than 400 Hazardous Sites in California Face Flooding, Summer Rains in American Southwest Are Not Your Typical Monsoon, The Superfoods That Fueled Ancient Andeans Through 2,500 Years of Turmoil, Microbes Provide Sustainable Hydrocarbons for Petrochemical Industry, What It Takes to Eat a Poisonous Butterfly, When Ecology Meets Art, You Get a Dating Site For Trees, Racism Isnt Rocket Science Its More Complicated. The sugar-making process developed by Cestellos-Blanco and his UC Berkeley team, led by chemist and professor Peidong Yang, shared the top prize $650,000 with two other teams competing in the CO2 Conversion Challenge. Strange goings-on in our planets interior. A new policy brief released today by the California Policy Lab (CPL) and the People Lab at UC Berkeley shows that making simple changes to Cal Grant financial aid award letters significantly increased the number of California high school students who registered for an online account, a key first step for receiving the grant. UC Berkeley Cultivates Festive Culture of 'Free Thinkers' at AI Hackathon | Research UC Berkeley Bioengineering Professor Aaron Streets says it is important for those who conduct that research to represent the full diversity of human genetic variation. For counties and municipalities seeking to achieve equity for their residents, questions about what programs to cut or fund cannot be answered thoroughly without identifying the real racial disparities present within their communities. The months-long rainy season, or monsoon, that drenches northwestern Mexico each summer, reaching into Arizona and New Mexico and often as far north as Colorado and Northern California, is unlike any monsoon in the world, according to a new analysis by an earth scientist from the University of California, Berkeley. In a paper published in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Hastings describe some of these long-term and often overlooked effects of wildfires, which can range from housing shortages and unemployment to mental health conditions that dont surface until months or years after the final flames are extinguished.
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