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Students can now fill out the application to be a Golden Bear Orientation Leader for 2023. As a Golden Bear Orientation Leader, they will become part of a team that works collaboratively to welcome and orient new students to the UC Berkeley community, helping them explore academic life, campus involvement, and everything that UC Berkeley has to offer.

One of my hopes coming out of the pandemic was that we would become more aware of how interdependent we are as a community and perhaps do more to ensure that everyone has the support they need. The 2022 UAW contract negotiations and strike underscored that interdependence, making clear how essential postdoctoral scholars, academic researchers and graduate students are to our campus ecosystem; our teaching and research missions depend on them. Having them withdraw their labor created significant challenges and stress for our undergraduates, faculty and staff.

Academia has a diversity problem, especially in STEM. There is a dearth of scientists who identify as Black, Hispanic or who are members of marginalized communities in STEM-related faculty roles at colleges and universities, studies show. These inequities can hurt students and result in harmful biases in tools and teachings of fields that affect the public.

Discussion of campus safety with Director of Parent Services and Communications David Ortega, Chief Margo Bennett, Vice Chancellor Marc Fisher, UCPD Sargent Kevin Vincent, and Berkeley Police Officers Jessica Perry and Byron White.

Responding quickly and creatively to needs and opportunities that arise on campus is vital to UC Berkeley’s ongoing excellence — and to do that, the university relies in large part on unrestricted flexible-use funds. One source of that flexible funding is fueled by the generosity of Berkeley parents and families, a giving opportunity that’s also tailor-made for them and their students: the Cal Parents Fund.

UC Berkeley has a lot to celebrate and a lot to work on moving into the new year, Chancellor Carol Christ said during a virtual, end-of-semester Campus Conversations event on Tuesday, December 6, 2022. But through another tumultuous semester — which has seen a UC-wide labor strike and a continuing pandemic — Berkeley’s campus community has again come together.

Faculty who illuminate understanding in young minds. New friendships whose light will shine through a lifetime. A public service mission that brightens the world. What’s your Berkeley star? From the star in Sather Gate to the ones explored by the James Webb telescope, the Berkeley galaxy is a brilliant one full of innovation, empathy and generosity.

The Cal Dining team enjoyed bringing both flavor and fun to students last Fall.

Highlights included:

Plant Forward Recipe Challenge
Students were invited to taste and rate the chefs’ dish creations, which had to include sunchokes, mushrooms and broccoli rabe.