Anthropologist Mari Lyn Salvador, a scholar of Panama's native Kuna people and the textiles that they create and an experienced museum professional, has been named director of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the UC Berkeley. Salvador is

UC Berkeley researchers have received a five-year, $10.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to evaluate interventions to combat diarrheal disease in developing countries. The goal determine how different sanitation interventions impact child health and well-being.

Post-doc Dovi Poznanski was looking through seven-year-old data when he chanced upon a very strange supernova that flashed and was gone in less than a month, when 3-4 months is typical. The unusually rapid supernova appears to match the predicted

Kids who participated regularly in school-based physical education classes had better heart health and lower body mass index, according to a new study led by researchers at UC Berkeley and UCSF. Findings from the study of 9,268 seventh- and ninth-grade

Actors from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre assembled near Wheeler Hall at noon Wednesday to perform a scene from Love's Labour's Lost, a preview of their five-day Cal Performances engagement at Zellerbach Hall.

For more than a century, UC Berkeley's Graduate Council has hosted free public lectures by prominent scholars, scientists, and public intellectuals. Now the public can revisit a growing number of those events, thanks to an ambitious digitization project and a

Composer Ken Ueno, a University of California, Berkeley, assistant professor of music, says the audience at the San Francisco premiere of his new musical composition, "Archaeologies of the Future," heard sounds they likely never heard before. With audio

After a late night of texting or updating Facebook, it's hardly surprising that many teenagers show up groggy for school, which studies have shown can diminish academic performance. To address this troubling trend, UC Berkeley's Sleep and Psychological Disorders Laboratory

Linda Finch Hicks, administrative manager in the history department, died Sunday, Nov. 1 at Alta Bates Hospital of pancreatic cancer. She was 55.

A group of scientists that includes Jim McGuire of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology proposes a project as ambitious as the human genome project. Their goal is to sequence the DNA of one species from each genus of living mammal,

For more than a century many American cities had so-called "Ugly Laws" on the books, which made it illegal for a person who was "diseased, maimed or mutilated or in any way deformed" to appear in public. Professor of English

The University of California President's Task Force on Post-Employment Benefits will hold a forum at UC Berkeley on Tuesday, Nov. 10, for staff to ask questions and weigh in on the future of the university's pension and retiree health programs.