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Politics & society

Abundant California: A Berkeley initiative aims to break gridlock, meet human needs

The Abundance Accelerator at UC Berkeley is bridging left-vs.-right conflict to focus on housing, childcare, medical care and other troubling shortages. “We call ourselves data-driven idealists,” says leader Amy E. Lerman.

Research

Watch a professor explain synthetic plant biology in 101 seconds

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Research

Gel nail manicures come with exposure to skin-damaging UV. A UC Berkeley chemist has a solution.

image showing circular grades for various categories: green B-s for infant mortality and childhood poverty rates, yellow C+ for drug-related arrests and Cs for high school graduation rates and cancer mortality, orange D+ for Alzhiemer's disease mortality and Ds for unemployment rates and poverty rates, and red Fs for homeownership, incarceration, bachelor's degree earned, median home value, heart disease mortality, homicide mortality, life expectancy and median household income

Politics & society

See how key racial disparities metrics in San Francisco have changed since 2000

Spotlight: Community-Engaged Research

Watch a professor explain community-engaged research in 101 seconds

A group of students sits in a large yellow disposal bin that is filled with small twigs and branches. The bin is on a hilly street next to a white house.

Wildfire season is here. UC Berkeley scholars are helping Bay Area communities prepare.

Students point toward poster paper on the wall during an exercise about the ways to better understand chronic absenteeism among students.

With high schoolers’ help, UC Berkeley researchers investigate why so many students are chronically absent

Research

Awards

UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Yaghi created a field called reticular chemistry, which involves stitching together molecular building blocks to form porous structures — metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) — with myriad applications.