Faculty Research in the News

External media reporting on faculty research 

Berkeley News: Middle school students explore musical treasures from special Berkeley collections

May 2, 2024
Anne Brice and Grant Kerber, Berkeley News

It isn’t every day that we get to interact with musical treasures from the 16th and 17th centuries, held in a special UC Berkeley collection. But last week, Berkeley public middle school students got to do just that.

The students, hosted by Berkeley Music Professor Nicholas Mathew, began their visit at one of the campus’s Noon Concerts, free weekly performances presented every semester in Hertz Concert Hall by the Department of Music. The concert series began more than 70 years ago in...

https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/05/02/middle-school-students-visit-music-departme…

Berkeley Voices: One brain, two languages

April 16, 2024
Anne Brice, Berkeley News

For the first three years of Justin Davidson's childhood in Chicago, his mom spoke only Spanish to him. Although he never spoke the language as a young child, when Davidson began to learn Spanish in middle school, it came very quickly to him, and over the years, he became bilingual.

Now an associate professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Davidson is part of a research team that has discovered where in the brain bilinguals store language-specific sounds and sound sequences. The research project is ongoing....

https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/16/berkeley-voices-language-in-the-brain