Feature Stories
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
In both the classroom and the field, evolutionary ecologist Erica Bree Rosenblum listens closely for the answers.
Fall 2018
Plant and Microbial Biology professor Arash Komeili charts the course of magnetotactic bacteria.
Fall 2018
Jennifer Sowerwine works to restore culturally relevant food systems to immigrant and Native American populations.
Spring 2018
CNR faculty lead wide-ranging research initiatives at the Innovative Genomics Institute.
Spring 2018
Retracing the steps of pioneering naturalist Joseph Grinnell to document how California’s creatures have responded to an evolving environment.
Spring 2018
Andreas Stahl's campus collaborations in fighting obesity with fat.
Fall 2017
Professor Daniel Kammen combines science with environmental policy in the quest for sustainable power.
Fall 2017
A Berkeley-Illinois collaboration experiments with photosynthesis to increase crop yield.
Spring 2017
CNR ecologists use modern tools and old-fashioned relationship-building for research in spaces shared by humans and wildlife.
Spring 2017
rOpenSci moves mountains of data to transform environmental research.
Fall 2016