"The stakes are very high, as we have wasted so many good years," said UC Berkeley energy and climate expert Daniel Kammen, as the historic COP21 world climate conference opened in Paris. Kammen is one of several professors there, as well as grad students. Berkeley News is following our team, with stories and video and audio updates. > Read more...
A three-day international summit on the ethics of making permanent, hereditary changes in the human genome begins today in Washington, D.C. It's the fruit of an informal discussion organized in January by UC Berkeley biologist Jennifer Doudna, the inventor of the CRISPR-Cas9 technology that makes such changes cheap and easy.
High school sweethearts and now a power couple on the UC Berkeley faculty, Molly and Rob Van Houweling share a passion for bicycle racing. Their years of dedication paid off on Sept. 12, when Molly, a professor of law, set a new women's world record for cycling.
