An agreement signed Sept. 6 in Shenzhen, China, launches a partnership among the University of California, Berkeley, Tsinghua University and the Shenzhen municipal government promoting research collaboration and graduate student education.

Most know that hiding something from others can cause internal angst. New research suggests the consequences can go far beyond emotional strife and that being forced to keep information concealed, such as one’s sexual orientation, disrupts the concealer’s basic skills and abilities, including intellectual acuity, physical strength, and interpersonal grace—skills critical to workplace success.

Study finds hiring managers often make poor choices because they systematically rely strictly on generic performance measures rather than considering situational context

Thirty years ago, the future lay in programming computers. Today, it’s programming cells.