UC Berkeley NewsCenter: Multimedia archive

View of Campanile and Golden Gate Bridge

THEMIS probes aurora storms
Lights of the aurora ring the polar region

Roxanne Makasdjian of UC Berkeley Public Affairs interviews scientists at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory who conceived the THEMIS mission, built the probes and will be controlling the spacecraft as they seek to determine how and where aurora substorms are triggered. (Streaming video )

Quick-jaw ants

Watch fascinating slow-motion video of a species of ants who use their lightning-quick jaws to capture prey or catapult themselves into the air, out of harm's way. (Streaming video )

Cal Band reenacts the Big Bang, with direction by Nobelist George Smoot
George Smoot and the Cal Band

The world, by some accounts, was created in seven days. Not to try and top that, but the Cal Band managed to reenact the Big Bang in the space of less than an hour. (Streaming video )

Online tour Welcome, virtual tourists
UC Berkeley's new online tour combines memorable photos and web features to offer a fresh look at the people, places and traditions that make the university a singular experience. (Interactive Flash)

Tracker follows scent trail The nose knows
A grad student follows a chocolate trail through the grass to prove that two nostrils really are better than one. (Video)

Halftime Radio
Lively chats broadcast during Cal football games feature guests from across the campus. (Real audio)

small cycad Tribe of ancients
Just up Centennial Drive from campus is the real deal, a troupe of survivors with genuine gravitas: the cycads. (Slide show)

Berkeley campus tree The trees of Berkeley
Take away the lecture halls, the brilliant students, the Nobel laureates, even take away the Campanile and the tie-dye, and there'd still be a unique feel to Berkeley. Where to find it? Try the trees. (Flash slide show)

Secret study sites Secret study sites
The Berkeley campus is filled with students – sometimes so filled it's hard to study. We've assembled a dozen off-the-beaten-track suggestions for those times when you need a peaceful place to hit the books. (Interactive Flash)

Spanning subjects ranging from poetry to politics to food, recent webcasts of Berkeley events are archived online.

Courses, events and special programs from the Berkeley campus are featured on a special Google Video site.

Concrete canoe exhibit Cal Day 2006
Follow the crowds to the annual campus open house (Flash slide show)

University medalist Commencement 2006
Graduates draw inspiration from their achievement (Flash slide show, Video)

Conversations with Berkeley Researchers
Distinguished UC Berkeley faculty – Nobel laureates, chancellors, scientists, public figures known around the world – discuss their lives, their work, the past and our future. (Video interviews)

Conversations with History
In these lively video interviews, public figures from all over the world talk about the political, economic, military, legal, cultural, and social issues shaping our world. Guests include diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers; economists and political analysts; scientists and historians; writers and foreign correspondents; activists and artists. Conceived in 1982 by Harry Kreisler, Conversations with History includes over 300 interviews. (Video interviews)