TV news highlights

Broadcast highlights: Public Policy professor, Robert Reich, discusses how tax cuts and spending can reduce stock values

Fall 2018 (4:39 min)

Public Policy professor, Robert Reich, discusses how tax cuts and spending can reduce stock values; Prof. Jennifer Doudna talks about the future of gene editing; Prof. Matt Walker discusses the link between sleep deprivation and major diseases; Cristina Robins describes how rising sea levels allow us to learn more about the past; Researchers at Adesnik Lab are create laser 3D holograms; Architecture professor, Ronald Rael, shows off a 3D printed home, which could help ease the housing crisis; Meet first-generation college graduates and twins, Tyler and Cameron Haberman.

Broadcast highlights: Psychology professor, Dacher Keltner, discusses his book on how people gain power, then lose influence

Fall 2017 (5:15 min)

UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center is training students to become digital investigators; PHD student Duncan Haldane demonstrates SALTO, the leaping robot; Professor Jennifer Doudna discusses the impact of her revolutionary discovery that accelerated gene-editing; Solomon Hsiang describes the inequality of the effects of climate change; NASA and Cal teamed up to run a crowd-sourcing project to search the universe for new planets.

Broadcast highlights: Psychology professor, Dacher Keltner, discusses his book on how people gain power, then lose influence

Fall 2016 (5:09 min)

Psychology professor, Dacher Keltner, discusses his book on how people gain power, then lose influence; Food insecurity on campuses and how Berkeley is trying to alleviate it; Professor Jennifer Doudna describes the far-reaching implications of her gene-editing technology; Civil & Environmental Engineering professor, Arpad Horvath, on the future of sustainable transportation; Alums, Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez, talk about their “Back to the Roots” food line, born at Berkeley; and more.

Broadcast highlights: Professor Jennifer Doudna discusses her findings on the gene-editing CRISPR technology

Fall 2015 (4:10 min)

Professor Jennifer Doudna discusses her findings on the gene-editing CRISPR technology; How late bedtimes could lead to weight gain, explained by Graduate Student Lauren Asarnow; Berkeley provides Degree Completion Program for former student athletes; ABC 7 news reports on Berkeley students’ volunteer work to rebuild the region affected by Hurricane Katrina, and more.

Broadcast highlights: Prof. Anthony Barnosky discusses how humans have affected earth on PBS special, “Mass Extinction”

Fall 2014 (5:33 min)

Prof. Anthony Barnosky discusses how humans have affected earth on PBS special, “Mass Extinction”; Prof. Dan Kammen reports on climate change summit; UC Berkeley Seismological Lab’s earthquake early warning system; National Geographic covers Prof. Matthew Walker’s sleep research; Grad student Lindsey Dougherty discovers how “disco clams” light up, and more.

Broadcast highlights: Berkeley wins its 22nd Nobel Prize

Spring 2014 (5:33 min)

Berkeley wins its 22nd Nobel Prize; Chancellor Nicholas Dirks promotes the value of public higher education; PBS airs prize-winning UC Berkeley documentary; How climate change and violence are related; Berkeley hires the first “Wikipedian-in-Residence,” and more.

Broadcast highlights: New athletic classes for the disabled and abled bodied

Fall 2013 (5:40 min)

New athletic classes for the disabled and abled bodied; A study on sleep and memory retention; Jack Gallant’s mind reading device, Genetically modifying Sorghum to battle world hunger; A Chinese documentary on student life at Berkeley, Hazardous flame retardants, an African School built by Haas Alumni, and more.

Broadcast highlights: Berkeley goes to the Olympics

Fall 2012 (5:20 min)

Berkeley goes to the Olympics; CNN talks to student veterans from the Iraq war; PBS Newshour on Berkeley’s breakthrough science on human vision; local coverage of campus research and events, including Memorial Stadium’s reopening and the announced retirement of Chancellor Birgeneau, and more.

Broadcast highlights: Nobel Prize winner Saul Perlmutter

Fall 2011 (5:24 min)

Worldwide coverage of UC Berkeley professor Saul Perlmutter’s Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery that the universe is expanding; The Science Channel highlights Berkeley’s groundbreaking work on artificial materials that can bend light in unconventional ways; local TV covers UC Berkeley’s new financial aid plan for middle class families, and more.

Broadcast highlights: National news coverage of UC Berkeley’s Austin Exoskeleton research

Spring 2011 (4:46 min)

National news coverage of UC Berkeley’s “Austin Exoskeleton” research and graduating senior Austin Whitney using the device at Commencement; local stations turn to Berkeley’s nuclear experts for information on Japan’s nuclear crisis; Prof. Michael Manga on the History Channel’s “Journey to the Earth’s Core”; PBS’ NOVA highlights the energy work of Prof. Dan Kammen and Energy Sec (and UCB prof) Steve Chu, and more.

Broadcast highlights: NBC Nightly News covers UC Berkeley’s Science of Happiness research

Fall 2010 (6:15 min)

NBC Nightly News covers UC Berkeley’s “Science of Happiness” research; CBS Evening News talks to Prof. Geoffrey Nunberg about Google’s new book database; Bloomberg News broadcasts exclusive interview profile of Prof. Christina Romer; PBS highlights Prof. Ulrike Malmendier’s study on spending habits; CBS Interactive reports on UC Berkeley’s “Brain Stimulation” research; and more.

Broadcast highlights: CBS 60 Minutes interviews Bob Bea about the Gulf oil spill

Spring 2010 (5:00 min)

CBS “60 Minutes” interviews Prof. Bob Bea about the Gulf oil spill; PBS “Newshour” reports on the upcoming autobiography of Mark Twain with Twain Project director, Robert Hirst; Science Channel “Through the Wormhole” interviews grad student Julie Comerford about black holes; National Geographic Channel “Naked Science” talks to Prof. Geoff Marcy about the hunt for earth-like planets; and more.

Broadcast highlights: Nobel Prize to Oliver Williamson

Fall 2009 (6:53 min)

Berkeley’s newest Nobel Prize winner; Oprah talks to UCPD about the Dugard kidnapping case; Bill Clinton comes to campus; professor Tim White on 4.4 million-year-old “Ardi”; Japanese-Americans get their belated Cal degrees; professors Ron Fearing and Paul Birkmeyer invent robotic roaches; and more.

Broadcast highlights: Poisoned African lions on 60 Minutes

Spring 2009 (6:34 min)

Poisoned African lions on 60 Minutes; Dan Kammen discusses carbon capture; Chancellor Birgeneau lobbies for undocumented students on Good Morning America; Stephen Hinshaw talks about “The Triple Bind” facing America’s girls on the Today Show; John Coates examines the possibility of life on Mars; Jay Keasling makes an appearance on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report, and more.

Broadcast highlights: Poisoned African lions on 60 Minutes

Spring 2009 (6:34 min)

Poisoned African lions on 60 Minutes; Dan Kammen discusses carbon capture; Chancellor Birgeneau lobbies for undocumented students on Good Morning America; Stephen Hinshaw talks about “The Triple Bind” facing America’s girls on the Today Show; John Coates examines the possibility of life on Mars; Jay Keasling makes an appearance on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report, and more.

Broadcast highlights: Steve Chu nominated as energy secretary

Fall 2008 (7:10 min)

President-elect Barack Obama nominates UC Berkeley professors Steve Chu to be energy secretary and Christina Romer to head his Council of Economic Advisors; Laura Tyson and Jacob Hackeron discuss the economic challenges facing the new administration; Dan Kammen’s “Ecopolis” series; “invisibility” research, biology-inspired robots, and more.

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Spring 2008 (10:33 min)

Professor Matt Walker tells 60 Minutes about new discoveries in the “Science of Sleep”; UC Berkeley courses webcast to the world; student veterans welcomed at Berkeley; researchers send satellites to look for the cause of auroras; Berkeley professors study the changing status of plants and animals in our ecosystems, and more.