January 03, 2022
Research shows that certain teaching practices improve learning and reduce inequities. Graduate student Eva Gerber explores how one UC Berkeley department is bringing these crucial findings from education journals into classrooms. By the time that Danielle Spitzer, a fifth-year graduate student in the department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB), attended her departmental first-time Graduate…
December 16, 2021
The State of California allotted $20 million in this year’s budget to QB3 and its sibling California Institutes for Science and Innovation to plan and implement programs to strengthen and grow the workforce. QB3 will use its share — $5 million over five years — to provide students with training in advanced biotechnology, and to…
December 15, 2021
UC Berkeley is partnering with UC San Francisco and Stanford University as founding scientific members of a new institute that aims to accelerate breakthroughs in complex diseases. The Arc Institute was officially launched today (Dec. 15) with the goal of developing a new model for collaborative research that brings together world-class research with unconstrained funding…
December 14, 2021
Graduate student Leah Gulyas explores how one tiny coronavirus protein blockades host cells—and how a few simple changes can flip the script. Mission control! Mission control! Do you read me? While these lines might first bring to mind a movie scene of astronauts frantically trying to contact their home base following a disastrous event in…
December 09, 2021
David Schaffer has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.
December 09, 2021
A small clinical trial of a CRISPR cure for sickle cell disease, approved earlier this year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has received $17 million to enroll about nine patients, the first of which may be selected before the end of the year.
December 08, 2021
The wait for UC Berkeley’s bold new home for research and innovation is nearly over. After two years of construction, the Bakar BioEnginuity Hub (BBH) is scheduled to open in February 2022.
December 07, 2021
Erin Dueber, Ph.D., a Senior Principal Scientist in the Early Discovery Biochemistry Department at Genentech, spoke with graduate student Samvardhini Sridharan about her science career and how being unafraid to try things played a fundamental role along the way.
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