News and Events

News

Department News - Articles about the department, faculty, students, etc.
Insight Newsletter - The IB Department Newsletter

Events

IB Events - Seminars and other events in IB

News

IB participates in UC Berkeley Graduate Diversity Admissions Fair

Watch the video of our Zoom info session, featuring IB graduate student Ixchel Gonzalez Ramirez, IB faculty Rauri C.K. Bowie and José Pablo Vázquez-Medina, and IB graduate student services advisor, Monica Albe. Recorded on October 22, 2020.

Is English the lingua franca of science? Not for everyone.

English limits entry into the world of science and limits public access to scientific results. Valeria Ramírez-Castañeda, a graduate student in IB, encountered this firsthand when she began writing her master’s thesis at the University of Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, her native country. Read more of her story featured in the Berkeley News...

Welcome to Berkeley, IB Entering Class of 2020!

IB is proud to welcome all new students to our community including our class of 13 new PhD candidates!

Learn about their favorite branches on the tree of life, childhood career aspirations and more.

Desert mosses use quartz rocks as sun shades

A graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, found that some mosses in the California desert seek protection from the relentless sun and heat by sheltering under translucent quartz pebbles, essentially using the rocks as sunshades.