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UC Berkeley faculty and key benefactors are celebrating the near-completion on the Barbara and Gerson Bakar Gateway building, the new home of the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS).

In collaboration with the Secretariat of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol (MLF), today DSE announced publication of Kigali Sim in the Journal of Open Source Software. The milestone marks a new chapter for the free, open-source modeling tool that helps policymakers worldwide assess strategies to reduce emissions from hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are some of the most potent greenhouse gases, under the Montreal Protocol’s Kigali Amendment. The paper is co-authored by DSE and MLF. “This publication validates Kigali Sim’s technical foundation and makes it...

Today the Ecological Society of America (ESA) announced Alejandra Echeverri, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and DSE faculty advisor, is a recipient of the 2026 Sustainability Science Award. The award honors “ Biocultural vulnerability of traditional crops in the Indian Trans-Himalaya," which was published in Science Advances last year. According to ESA, this research "makes the greatest contribution to the emerging science of ecosystem and regional sustainability through the integration of ecological and social sciences." Authors include...