An Anna’s Hummingbird sipping from a California Fuchsia. (Photo credit: Víctor M. Ortega Jiménez)

A recent publication by Professor Robert Dudley of the Department of Integrative Biology in the journal Royal Society Open Science demonstrates that hummingbirds happily sip from sugar water with up to 1% alcohol by volume, finding it just as attractive as plain sugar water. They're not getting drunk though! Read more...

James Valentine, paleontologist who grappled with the origin of animal diversity, has died at 96. Valentine was an emeritus professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and an emeritus curator at the UC Museum of Paleontology (UCMP). Read more...

Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Professor of Integrative Biology, Dr. tyrone B. hayes, has been acknowledged as a critical contributor to science once again -- this time by being elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Photo credit: Ruth Hartnup

IB graduate student Kyle Rosenblad and his faculty mentor, Professor David Ackerly, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences recently about how Western forests are not adapting fast enough to match the current rate of climate change. Read more about it in the Daily Cal...

Assistant Professor José Pablo Vázquez-Medina has received a 2023 Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentor Award. Vázquez-Medina was selected because of his outstanding commitment to mentoring, advising, and supporting graduate students.

Spring sparks the amorous activities of the California newt, and the UC Botanical Garden is a great place to check out the annual mating rituals of one of the state’s iconic salamanders. Read more...

Congratulations to Dr. Annaliese Beery on receiving tenure and her promotion to Associate Professor of Integrative Biology! The Beery Laboratory seeks to understand neurobiological pathways that support sociality (group-living) and affiliative social behavior between peers. To learn more, visit the Beery Lab Website.

Dr. Juan Liu, an assistant museum curator and assistant adjunct professor in the Department of Integrative Biology gives a behind the scenes tour of the UC Museum of Paleontology. Click here to see the photo slideshow.

We're happy to report that we received over 20 gifts to the Graduate Student Support Fund during Big Give, and Rod and Helenita Spencer generously contributed an additional $3,000 for a Big Give Match! Thanks to everyone that helped us. Your generosity provides much needed support to our graduate students through opportunities to travel, work in labs, and conduct field research.

The study, published in the journal Science Advances, presents the latest results from UC Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology's Grinnell Resurvey Project, an effort to revisit and document birds and small mammals at sites first surveyed a century ago by UC Berkeley professor Joseph Grinnell.

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