National Science Foundation

Kwabena Bediako, campus assistant chemistry professor, was awarded the National Science Foundation, or NSF, CAREER award for his ongoing research and outreach proposal. 

To be a Hispanic-serving institution, or HSI, at least 25% of a not-for-profit institution’s full-time undergraduates must be Hispanic. Today, 21 of the 23 CSU campuses and six of the nine UC campuses with undergraduate education are HSIs. UC Berkeley, currently, is not.

Two teams led by UC Berkeley researchers will be among the 14 California research projects to receive part of over $43 million in grants from the National Science Foundation, or NSF.

In multiple meetings Wednesday, the UC Board of Regents discussed finances, accommodations and new initiatives, among other topics.

The National Science Foundation, or NSF, awarded a $12.5 million grant to support a research partnership focused on amphibian resilience to infectious diseases.

The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure Computation Modeling and Simulation Center, or SimCenter, received a $12.75 million renewal award from the National Science Foundation on Sept. 16.

Researchers at UC Berkeley won a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to make criminal justice datasets aiming to assist defense attorneys. 

UC Berkeley has received more than $1 billion in funding for research and other sponsored projects in the past fiscal year.

The National Science Foundation, or NSF, approved UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech and the University of Southern California to launch an institute with goals to fuse artificial intelligence, or AI, with optimization.

The UC Board of Regents approved UC Berkeley’s Long Range Development Plan, or LRDP, and analyzed diversity in UC innovation and entrepreneurship Wednesday.