With the funding, researchers at Berkeley and the University of Arizona aim to increase Indigenous participation in STEM education.
Why Sunflowers Face East
In a new study, scientists in the Blackman Lab have helped explain how sunlight orientation is connected to plant reproduction and pollination.
Indonesia: Spectacles of Small-scale Gold Mining
In a photo series exhibited on the UC Berkeley Library website, professor Nancy Lee Peluso documents her ethnographic fieldwork.
Rausser College athletes compete in 2020 Olympics
This summer, seven Rausser students and alumni joined the global competition in Tokyo.
Student Spotlight: Sierra Margolis
Margolis, a fourth-year student majoring in Conservation and Resource Studies, studies the intersection of conservation and tech as a Fung Fellow.
How wildfire restored a Yosemite watershed
Researchers in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and Berkeley Forests were featured in a Berkeley News article.
The Transformation of Africa’s Energy Sector
New research, co-authored by professor of energy and resources Dan Kammen, identifies actions to increase affordable, clean electrification across the continent.
Kathryn De Master recognized for instruction by Rural Sociological Society
The Excellence in Instruction Award recognizes De Master for outstanding rural-oriented teaching at both graduate and undergraduate levels.
A machine learning breakthrough uses satellite images to improve lives
Rausser College alumni are part of a team that devised a system that could make analyzing satellite data accessible and affordable for researchers and governments worldwide.
Maternal pre-pregnancy obesity connected to child developmental disorders
Cooperative Extension specialist Susana Matias co-authored a study published today in the journal Obesity.
NSF awards $2 million to the FLUXNET Coordination Project
ESPM assistant professor Trevor Keenan will lead the FLUXNET coordination project, a global network-of-networks measuring exchanges of CO2 and water between ecosystems and the atmosphere.
A novel computing method for studying utility-scale renewable power systems
Energy and Resources Group researchers Duncan Callaway and José Daniel Lara share their open-source modeling approach in a new publication in IEEE Electrification.
Patrick Gonzalez to deliver scientific plenary at the Ecological Society of America annual meeting
An adjunct professor in ESPM, Gonzalez will speak on "Ecological integrity and solutions under anthropogenic climate change" on Tuesday, August 3.
Evolutionary arms race
In a study published in the journal Science, members of the Seed lab unlock genetic mechanisms behind cholera and its viruses.
Bogs, Bugs & Borgs
ESPM Professor Jill Banfield and her team are studying the microorganisms that live in rice paddy soils, with the aim of understanding how they contribute to greenhouse gas emissions—and how to intervene.
Cannabis farms irrigating with groundwater may affect stream flows
A new study from the Cannabis Research Center examined where cannabis growers in California are getting water for their crops, highlighting significant gaps in cannabis cultivation policy.
Berkeley joins Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition
All public and Tribal land management agencies in stewardship of giant sequoias will work together to protect the iconic trees from threats of climate change and catastrophic wildfire.
Assessing the impacts of NST’s Personal Food Security and Wellness course
In two new publications, researchers Susana Matias and Mikelle McCoin focus on diet and food security in students who participated in the integrated-kitchen nutrition course.
Master of Development Practice to join Goldman School of Public Policy
In July, the program will move its administrative home to the Goldman School of Public Policy after nine years in the Rausser College of Natural Resources.
Karl Dunkle Werner to join U.S. Treasury’s Office of Economic Policy
Karl Dunkle Werner, who completed his PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics this year, will join the U.S. Treasury as an economist in August.