Feature Stories
Researchers are using synthetic biology and CRISPR methods to help plants fight pathogens, improve crop yields, and store more carbon.
Fall 2022
Rausser College faculty are helping scale markets for carbon capture, storage, and management.
Fall 2022
Cecilia Martinez-Gomez’s engineered bacteria recovers valuable elements from old smartphones, cleans up medical wastewater, and more.
Fall 2022
Can the bioeconomy bring renewable, carbon-negative products to a global scale?
Fall 2022
A new project visualizes how sea-level rise may threaten hazardous facilities and the surrounding vulnerable communities along California’s coastline.
Spring 2022
Rausser College students are helping reshape our understanding of the bacterial world.
Spring 2022
The California Heartbeat Initiative uses new technologies to track environmental change on a landscape scale.
Fall 2021
The 30x30 initiative employs an inclusive, collaborative approach to preserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change.
Fall 2021
Landmark U.S. environmental policies are 50 years old. Where do we go from here?
Spring 2021
California’s high energy prices offer lessons for the nation’s renewables-focused energy policy.
Spring 2021
Whendee Silver’s research shows that compost doesn’t just benefit farmers—it captures carbon.
Fall 2020
Understanding the links between environmental change and public health is essential for creating effective solutions.
Fall 2020
Berkeley researchers join the largest-ever delegation of women scientists to visit Antarctica.
Spring 2020
Gordon Rausser, former dean and professor emeritus, makes a momentous naming gift to the College.
Spring 2020
Professor Peggy Lemaux investigates new methods to make sorghum and other crops more climate resilient.
Spring 2020
Britt Glaunsinger uncovers how viruses interact with—and steal from—their hosts.
Fall 2019
Dan Nomura’s lab explores the human proteome for the development of next-generation therapeutics.
Fall 2019
Neil Tsutsui invites the public to join the scientific process through citizen science and outreach projects.
Spring 2019
Journalist Mary Ellen Hannibal introduces our citizen science issue and traces the origins of the movement.
Spring 2019