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UC Berkeley assistant professors Bronwyn Lucas and Preeya Khanna will each receive $1.5 million over multiple years from the U.S. National Institutes of Health to fund their work improving scientists’ understanding of disease causes and therapies to repair individuals’ motor functions.

Berkeley News: At UC Berkeley, researchers are reimagining how to support freedom of expression online while minimizing the potential for harm. By holding social media companies accountable, building tools to combat online hate speech, and uplifting the survivors of online abuse, they are working to create safer and more welcoming online spaces for everyone.

UC Berkeley College of Engineering: Imaging microscopic samples requires capturing multiple, sequential measurements, then using computational algorithms to reconstruct a single, high-resolution image. This process can work well when the sample is static, but if it’s moving — as is common with live, biological specimens — the final image may be blurry or distorted. Now, Berkeley researchers have developed a method to improve temporal resolution...

UC Berkeley’s undergraduate data science program retained its No. 1 spot in the 2025 U.S. News and World Report rankings released late Monday. The university also held its No. 2 ranking in computer science at the undergraduate level. It shared that spot with Carnegie Mellon University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Berkeley was also acknowledged in the rankings for its excellence in other undergraduate...

UC Berkeley experts received a $1.5 million grant from the California Education Learning Lab (Learning Lab) to launch a first-of-its-kind computing technology hub for the state’s public colleges and universities. The hub will provide access to students across the state to course materials built on the JupyterHub platform, a cloud-based, open-source system widely used in scientific and industrial workplaces. It will be staffed and run...

UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) welcomed seven new faculty in statistics, electrical engineering and computational precision health to its community this fall. The college also appointed two new chairs, its first endowed chairs since the UC Board of Regents approved its launch in May 2023. Together, these appointments continued the growth of CDSS as the first new college at Berkeley...

Professor Omar M. Yaghi, the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair and Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, was awarded the 2024 Balzan Prize by the International Balzan Prize Foundation for his groundbreaking contributions to the discovery and development of nanoporous framework materials, and advancing their applications in carbon capture, hydrogen storage, and water harvesting from desert air. Yaghi, who is also co-director and chief scientist...

Two executive directors have recently joined UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) to lead pioneering centers that actualize AI solutions for healthcare and climate change. Sarah Jones, executive director for the Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet and Ted Robertson, executive director for the Center for Healthcare Marketplace Innovation, were drawn to the university’s interdisciplinary excellence and real-world impact...

Shrinidhi Gopal, a senior majoring in economics and data science, is the incoming president for UC Berkeley's undergraduate student government. She is one of 202 students who made these subjects the second most common combination of majors declared on campus this spring.Gopal spoke with Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society about how she discovered these fields and the power of combining data science...

Hellina Hailu Nigatu always loved math and physics – really any field that let her calculate things. Then she found computer science. By the time she'd started her PhD at UC Berkeley, she saw how computing skills could address a range of issues from healthcare to women's rights. She learned in classes about concepts in Natural Language Processing and large language models developed in English...