Watch Pai share her "personal love letter to UC Berkeley" with graduating classmates in this clip of Saturday morning's commencement.
NST PhD student Justin Lee wins 2022 University of California Grad Slam
The third-year metabolic biology PhD student won for his talk "Jamming the SARS-CoV-2 copy machine." He is the first NST grad student to win the Grad Slam.
What is the role of reparations in delivering climate justice?
Daniel Aldana Cohen, a member of the Climate Equity and Environmental Justice Roundtable faculty, spoke to Berkeley News about the importance of linking the climate crisis to colonialism and racial capitalism.
Update on the Rausser College Strategic planning process
The Rausser College community is asked to review early stage documents from Strategic Plan Working Groups and provide input.
Rausser College faculty, students honored with 2022 Sustainability Awards
The awards recognize students, faculty, and staff who make UC Berkeley a more sustainable place to work, live, and learn.
Multidisciplinary perspectives on climate displacement
Members of UC Berkeley’s new Climate Equity and Environmental Justice Roundtable discuss climate displacement from the perspectives of sociology, city planning, geography, engineering, and urban policy.
Berkeley Talks: Damilola Ogunbiyi on driving an equitable energy transition
A podcast featuring the Energy and Resources Group's 2022 annual lecture, given by Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General for Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL).
Quantifying the relationship between birders and the environment
ESPM researchers hope the “bigger” and “brighter” birds popular among citizen scientists can aid outreach and conservation efforts.
Rausser College graduate students receive National Science Foundation awards
Eleven current and incoming students will be supported by the prestigious research fellowship.
Ellen Bruno awarded New Innovator in Food & Agriculture Research grant
The award will support Bruno’s work on sustainable groundwater use and regulation.
Justin Lee wins first prize in Grad Slam competition
With Lee's success, this is the second year in a row that a Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology student won the campus-wide competition.
More oil and gas wells in redlined neighborhoods
Study shows that historically marginalized communities are exposed to more wells and their accompanying pollution.
For cannabis farms, ecosystem science is scarce
High Country News interviews Phoebe Parker-Shames, a PhD candidate studying the West’s emerging, and rarely researched, industry.
2022 Rausser College Photo Contest Winners
Our 2022 photo contest had over 120 photo submissions! View winning photos here.
Two ESPM-led projects receive seed grant funding from the Berkeley Food Institute
The award will support research on pathogens and coffee in Costa Rica, and biodiversity and food sovereignty on Hawai'i.
How UC research helps California meet the challenges of the climate crisis
Rausser College is proud to be a part of the UC system-wide efforts to find solutions to our growing climate crisis.
Student Spotlight: Isaac Aguilar
Fourth-year Molecular Environmental Biology and Ecosystem Management and Forestry double major discusses making the most of Rausser College’s research opportunities.
Berkeley Voices: Biologist confronts deep roots of climate despair
Bree Rosenblum, a professor of global change biology in ESPM, speaks about confronting the root causes of the environmental crisis and expanding our idea of what it means to be human on our planet.
NST student advances in Grad Slam 2022
Metabolic Biology PhD student Justin Lee qualified as a semi-finalist and will compete during the finalist selection on April 11.
Visualizing the architecture of a leaf
Learn about graduate student Mickey Boakye's work on leaf structure and adaptation, and see how artist-scientist Dr. Juniper Harrower and composer Marcus Norris interpret their research.