A man with glasses in a brown jacket smiles at the camera in a lab (Omar Yaghi)

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UC Berkeley |

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.

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UC Newsroom |

UC wins 5 Nobel Prizes in 3 days — and sets a new world record

These discoveries span decades and disciplines, but they all have one important thing in common: They’ve all relied on competitive funding from the federal government.

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UC Berkeley |

Scientists map source of Northwest’s next big quake

Ocean-bottom seismometers help explain the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate that causes megathrust earthquakes.
Clinton Terrell
UC Berkeley |

Touched by Shakespeare in solitary confinement

The classics carried one young man from incarceration to academia.
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UC Berkeley |

UC campuses to co-lead regional data science ‘brain trust’

NSF establishes four regional innovation hubs — including one led by UC Berkeley, UC San Diego and the University of Washington — to accelerate advances in data science.
brown bat with white nose fungus
UC Santa Cruz |

Bat disease fungus widespread in northeast China

Discovery greatly expands the known distribution of the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome, which has decimated bat populations in North America.
NOAA Fisheries researcher on Scripps boat
UC San Diego |

California’s fish populations are declining

Two independent data sets show changing ocean conditions adversely impact fish off California.
Gretchen Hofmann, UCSB
UC Newsroom |

UC announces first Faculty Climate Action Champions

Select instructors at each campus will work with students on projects aimed at building community engagement and awareness.
UC Merced
UC Merced |

National rankings point to growing recognition for young campus

UC's newest campus is drawing accolades for diversity, sustainability and preparing students for the workforce.
woman smoking e-cigarette
UCR Magazine |

Seven myths about e-cigarettes busted

Cell biologist Prue Talbot clears the air regarding the latest take on an old vice.
UC Berkeley |

Student team aims for app to help diabetes patients dining out

UC Berkeley team heading to round 2 of the Diabetes Design Challenge.
The UC Berkeley Food Pantry will benefit from the campus’s new relationship with Bank of the West.
UC Berkeley |

Agreement with Bank of the West to benefit student programs

The agreement will help support programs like Bears for Financial Success and the UC Berkeley Food Pantry.
UC Riverside |

Riverside's climate heroes

Professor and four students will work to engage the campus on climate change related issues in the coming year.
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UC Newsroom |

Making a splash: first look at concussions in water polo

UC Irvine physiologist James Hicks, whose three sons played water polo, is leading the first probe of concussions in water polo.