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Department Highlights
Hindu kids more apt to echo propaganda that ‘Indian equals Hindu’
With a multi-faith population of some 1.3 billion, India claims to be the world’s largest secular democracy. But when it comes to the question of who is a true Indian, the country’s Hindu children are more...
Congrats to Hinshaw for being named as recipient of the 2019 Ruane Prize
The Brain and Behavior Research Foundation has selected Stephen P. Hinshaw, PhD, as the 2019 recipient of its Ruane Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research. He will be...
Interview with Al Riley on a distinguished career at Berkeley
The University of California Berkeley Emeriti Association (UCBEA) has developed a project that involves video recording of emeriti faculty for the purpose of preserving the history and...
A map of the brain can tell what you’re reading about
Too busy or lazy to read Melville’s Moby Dick or Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina? That’s OK. Whether you read the classics, or listen to them instead, the same cognitive and emotional parts of the brain are likely...
Graduate Student Highlights
Jonathan Reeves is a PhD candidate in the Clinical Science program at the University of California, Berkeley. His research aims to better understand, predict, and treat self-harm, suicide, and the...
Scientists at UC Berkeley and Western University in Canada have used brain imaging to map the cerebellum, a formerly underappreciated neural region that contains the vast majority of the brain’s...
Alumni Stories
Graduated in 1967 and began teaching in Oakland. It didn't take long to think "someone ought to be able to run schools better than this"! So I went back to school in school administration and...
I graduated in 1968 with my BA in psychology and went to the University of Arkansas and enrolled in their medical technology program. The draft was after me and medical technology school wasn't...
