College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley

New Home for Bugs

Visit the Essig Museum of Entomology in its new home, 1170 Valley Life Sciences Building, and its world-class collection of more than 6 million pinned specimens.  MORE »

Scents of the Forest

Chemist Allen Goldstein has spent his career finding and characterizing some of the more elusive airborne chemicals found in nature. Erik Vance joined him for a tour of the woods.   LINK - Nature subscription required » | PDF - open access »

Why Choose CNR?

CNR students study in small classes with world-class professors, get research experience in the lab and the field, and graduate with the tools to solve some of the world's most pressing problems.  MORE »

CNR News


Animal CSI: Identifying species using tracking tunnels, footprints and computers (YouTube)

Behavioral and conservation biologist James Russell, a postdoc in ESPM, discusses a new method to identify invasive species.

Naked Earth: Pristine Edens of soil may be science's best tool for radically altering earth

The the primordial succession of life that has persisted within soil for thousands of millennia are instantly altered when plow meets earth.

Naked Lunch: How to get kids to eat their vegetables

The Skinny on School Lunches: Dr. Pat Crawford says they may be the best way to protect future generations from chronic disease.

Video Spotlight


Sit in on a CNR Class, Part II

Posted by Eva on 06-11-2009 9:13 am

Professor Vince Resh continues his discussion of controlling the African river blindness epidemic.