Phil Pister (BA '51 Wildlife Conservation, MA '52 Zoology) was a pioneer of desert fish conservation, and is credited with saving the Owens pupfish (Cyprinodon radiosis) by transferring the entire remaining population to a safe location in 1969. UC Santa Barbara recently published a feature story on his life and legacy.
Robin López appointed mayor of Albany, CA
The ESPM PhD student was first elected to the Albany City Council in 2022 and most recently served as the city’s vice mayor.
Seeing the forest for the trees
The most recent issue of California Magazine featured Rausser College and Forestry Field Camp.
What a century-old grapevine reveals about a disease plaguing wine country
UC Berkeley researchers used bacterial DNA from a 120-year-old herbarium specimen to reconstruct the history of Pierce’s disease in California.
Faculty Research Spotlight: James Olzmann
The Department of Molecular and Cell Biology recently profiled Olzmann, who is a professor of molecular therapeutics who studies the mechanisms that govern organelle and lipid homeostasis in health and disease.
Katherine Ennis named 2024 For Women in Science awardee
The PMB postdoctoral researcher is one of five women receiving the L'Oréal USA 2024 For Women in Science (FWIS) award for her contribution to STEM fields.
Hybrid theory offers new way to model disturbed complex systems
ERG professor John Harte and collaborators have developed a hybrid method that that links bottom-up behaviors and top-down causation in a single theory.
Connecting with communities and cultures through food
Undergraduates in the Food, Culture, and the Environment course partnered with local and international organizations over the summer on projects with real-world implications.
Two Rausser College faculty named 2024 Hellman Fellows
Assistant professors Francis Annan and Denis Titov have been awarded funding by the Society of Hellman Fellows to support early career research.
Forest fresh: Cal Forestry Club’s tree sale starts Sunday
For more than 60 years, UC Berkeley forestry students have traveled to the Sierra Nevada to cut Christmas trees for the community to enjoy.
Activism as Academics
Bhavna Shamasunder, PhD '11 Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, is a leading expert in environmental justice and on cumulative burden.
Open-source platform empowers communities to tackle wildfire crisis
A collaborative tool developed with the help of UC scientists empowers local governments and organizations to take control of their wildfire preparedness.
Nine College faculty are among the most highly cited in their fields
Nine researchers in ESPM, PMB, and NST were ranked among the top 1% worldwide in scholarly citations by analytics firm Clarivate.
Can ecotourism help promote and celebrate cultural diversity and biodiversity?
Professor Alejandra Echeverri and colleagues show that while Colombia is protecting biodiversity and cultural diversity, both remain mostly inaccessible to tourists.
How sunflowers bring all the bees to the yard
Professor Benjamin Blackman's collaborative research project on sunflowers was featured in a PBS video about how they are able to predict where and when the sun will travel each day.
The problem-solving abilities of urban raccoons
Professor Christopher Schell and postdoctoral researcher Lauren Stanton were interviewed about their research on the cognitive abilities of raccoons by ABC7 News.
Plant engineering breakthrough could improve bioproduct development
Research led by PMB professor Patrick Shih shows that some simple changes to Agrobacterium can significantly improve the efficiency of introducing DNA into a genome.
The Global South faces a growing toxic waste crisis
Kate O’Neill, a professor in ESPM, spoke to PBS NewsHour about the growing toxic waste crisis in developing countries caused by discarded electronics.
Advancing climate equity around the world
We highlight some of the nearly three dozen graduate students supported by the Katherine S. and James K. Lau Graduate Fellowship in Climate Equity.
John Taylor recognized by British Mycological Society
The PMB professor was awarded the organization’s 2024 John Webster Award for his outstanding contribution to fungal biology research over an extended career.