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How do Californians tolerate extreme inequality?

In their new book, 'Normalizing Inequality,' UC Berkeley professors G. Cristina Mora and Tianna Paschel detail the mental gymnastics Golden State residents use to reconcile a progressive identity with a dramatic wealth gap.

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In search of independence far from home, this graduate found it at Berkeley

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Being on stage terrified her. So she majored in theater.

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For this environmental health researcher, science is an ‘act of hope’

Q&A: Sir Michael Marmot’s society-wide approach to improving health equity

He felt ‘lost’ as a nontraditional student. A decade later, he’s helped hundreds find their path.

UC Berkeley Professor Matei Zaharia awarded ACM Prize in Computing

What makes HBO’s ‘The Pitt’ feel so real? Two UC Berkeley alums who bring the show to life explain

UC Berkeley Professor Darlène Dubuisson found ‘liberation’ in reading. It led her to study how Black people imagine better futures

AI has a bias problem. Can we build something smarter?

‘Stay curious’: Elizabeth Dupuis closes her final chapter at the UC Berkeley Library

From ‘too much’ to just right: How one student found a home at Berkeley

Then / Now / Next: Ecologist Lenya Quinn-Davidson is rethinking California’s relationship with fire

23 boxes and a suitcase full of tapes: How a linguist’s lifelong work is shaping Indigenous language today

Berkeley student documents ‘climate hell’ in Bangladeshi garment factories

What history scholar Carlos Noreña is trying to discover about the Roman Empire

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