Swedish-American artist and activist Michele Pred shines a light on important issues through her work — literally.

Allan Richard Pred, a social scientist who transformed UC Berkeley's geography program and became one of the field's fiercest and most prolific scholars, died of lung cancer last Friday at Alta ...

“Right now, higher education is really getting attacked in terms of funding and federal grants,” Pred said in a phone interview. “It’s outrageous and frightening to have science funding cut this way.

Critics say the predictive-policing program, called Pred-Pol, has led to heavier policing of minority neighborhoods. Moore has said in the past that he disagrees with the view that the program ...