Research Highlights
Article
Published December 29, 2014
Bearing Witness
UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center has taken a lead role in assessing the International Criminal Court’s groundbreaking witness program.
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Article
Published December 17, 2014
Africa’s AIDS Industry
Efforts to prevent the spread of AIDS in Africa tend to follow the same script, even though the methods are largely ineffective, according to a paper co-authored by a UC Berkeley sociologist.
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Article
Published November 10, 2014
Taming the Dust Devils
In an effort to control air pollution, the Chinese government is offering incentives to Mongolian pastoralists to shift their source of income, according to research by a UC Berkeley doctoral student.
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Article
Published September 23, 2014
Population and Climate Change
A team of UC Berkeley researchers warn that unless action is taken, certain countries will likely face dire rates of starvation and disease.
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Article
Published September 5, 2014
Struggles of a Class Worrier
Governments have to do more to reduce income inequality, says UC Berkeley's Robert Reich.
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Article
Published September 3, 2014
Snapping Back from Disaster
UC Berkeley's Center for Catastrophic Risk Management seeks new approaches for mitigating the impacts of disasters on large-scale infrastructure systems.
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Article
Published August 6, 2014
ADHD Explosion
UC Berkeley Professors Stephen P. Hinshaw and Richard M. Scheffler argue that ADHD must be understood as a result of both social conditions and biology.
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Article
Published August 6, 2014
Invited Interventions
Research by UC Berkeley Political Scientist Aila Matanock sheds light on why state-building interventions succeed in some nations and not others.
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Article
Published August 6, 2014
Take No Prisoners
Through overcrowding, lockdowns, and medical neglect, the conditions in U.S. prisons have become unconstitutional, according to UC Berkeley legal scholar Jonathan Simon.
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Published August 4, 2014
Dangerous Knowledge
An interdisciplinary working group at UC Berkeley aims to better understand how breakthrough scientific discoveries have been—and should be—regulated.
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Article
Published August 1, 2014
Waging War on Inequality
Minimum wage increases in cities have significant benefits and fewer costs than expected, according to a team of UC Berkeley economists.
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Published August 1, 2014
Reconstructing Disaster
UC Berkeley graduate student Siri Colom researches how politics shaped the reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
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