Production designer Nina Ruscio and casting director Cathy Sandrich Gelfond dish on designing “triggering” hospital sets, casting for raw authenticity and how their time at Berkeley taught them to watch life closely, turning every detail into material for an immersive narrative.
Ask people what they love most about The Pitt, the HBO Max medical drama that debuted in 2025 and went on to sweep the Emmys, and the answer is almost always the same: It feels so real.
Every one of us has a unique microbiome — bacteria of many types that have colonized our skin, our gut and every part of our body since we were in the womb — that contribute to our health and sometimes disease.
A chemical engineer, a biochemist, a roboticist and a laser dynamicist are among the new members.
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced this week that four UC Berkeley faculty — including a chemical engineer, a biochemist, a roboticist and a laser dynamicist — have been elected to its ranks.
The Oprah Podcast | Discover AWE Daily with Oprah and Dacher Keltner: Humans can experience awe every day through eight common triggers that lead to greater fulfillment and happiness, said psychology Professor Dacher Keltner in a conversation with Oprah Winfrey.
It's Berkeley Time, that magical moment in the year when we set aside our everyday routine as alums return to campus, students reunite with their parents, and all Golden Bears reconnect to celebrate what makes our Cal community so extraordinary! Join us for Alumni and Parents Weekend at Homecoming, October 9–10, 2026, as we transform our beloved campus tradition into an unforgettable experience! Check back often as events will be added to the website frequently. Registration opens in July.
Discover how CRISPR, a technology co-created by a UC Berkeley professor, is being used to transform medicine.
A sickle is a crescent-shaped blade once used to harvest wheat. When red blood cells take on that same curved shape, it signals sickle cell disease –– an inherited condition that causes cells to become stiff and sticky, blocking blood flow and triggering episodes of severe, stabbing pain known as vaso-occlusive crises.
On Wednesday, Jan. 28, University of California researcher Matteo M. Garbelotto-Benzon will go for a walk in the crisp cold of Canazei, a town near where he was raised in Italy’s Dolomites mountain range. His feet may crunch fresh snow in view of the Alpine peaks that inspired his career in forestry. The difference this time? In one hand, he’ll hold the Olympic torch — and in the other the lead of S’Abba, the service dog who helped him walk, and ski, again.
The rationale and methodology behind Berkeley’s aggregated ranking
Over 1,000 students and nearly 5,000 guests participated in this year's event.
Long before James McCloy walked into a lecture hall at UC Berkeley, he was sweeping floors beside his mother, a janitor, and pulling weeds beside his father, a landscaper. As a first-generation transfer student, he said, “I am here because my parents pushed a dream they themselves were not offered.”
Chancellor Rich and Jen Lyons — with help from a few special friends — invite the Cal family to join them in ringing in a new year filled with learning, discovery, and connection. Featuring Simone Browne, interim university carillonist; Andrew Hiranprasitikul and Steven Luo of the Berkeley Carillon Guild; and Oski the Bear.
Former Cal Defensive Lineman, Assistant Coach Tabbed As 35th Leader Of California Football Program
Tosh Lupoi, a former California defensive lineman and assistant coach known for his dynamic recruiting ability and who has enjoyed extensive success both in college and the NFL, has been named the new Travers Family Head Football Coach, Cal football general manager Ron Rivera announced Thursday.
Bears To Take On Hawai’i On Christmas Eve
The California football team has accepted an invitation to play in the Sheraton Hawai'i Bowl and will face Hawai'i on December 24 at 5 p.m. PT on ESPN.
It marks the third straight bowl appearance for the Golden Bears (7-5), which is the program's longest bowl streak since it went to seven straight bowl games from 2003-09. Overall, it's the 27th bowl appearance in school history.
Activities Will Take Place Across The Bay Area Prior To Saturday’s 128th Big Game
Today’s high-tech electronics and green energy technologies would not function without rare earth elements (REEs). These 17 metals possess unique properties essential to creating items like the phosphors that illuminate our mobile phone displays and the powerful magnets used in electric vehicles and wind turbines. But extracting these substances from raw materials is a dirty process that relies on toxic chemicals and leaves behind polluted waste.
Smoot, a physicist at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab, shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for detecting minute temperature variations in the cosmic microwave background, a prediction of the Big Bang theory.
September 29, 2025
Physicist George Smoot told a packed press conference in 1992, “If you’re religious, it’s like seeing God.”
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.
October 8, 2025
The Nobel Prize committee honored Clarke "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit." These circuits were forerunners of the qubits in many quantum computers.
October 7, 2025
John Clarke, an emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum tunneling, one of many strange aspects of quantum mechanics.
Smoot, a physicist at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab, shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for detecting minute temperature variations in the cosmic microwave background, a prediction of the Big Bang theory.
September 29, 2025
Physicist George Smoot told a packed press conference in 1992, “If you’re religious, it’s like seeing God.”
