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February 14, 2023

Light the Way Campaign
Cal Athletics lights the way to excellence

Athletics Director Jim Knowlton, champion hammer thrower Camryn Rogers, Cal Football Coach Justin Wilcox, and superstar alum coaches Ron and Stephanie Rivera share their vision for improving the student-athlete experience, attracting the best talent, and fueling competitive success for all UC Berkeley athletic programs for years to come.

Cal Parents Fund gifts provide immediate, lasting impact

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.

Live With UCPD and Berkeley PD Regarding Campus Safety

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.

Cal Parents & Families Facebook Live with AVC and Dean of Students Sunny Lee and AVC and Director of Undergraduate Admissions Jocelyn De Jong

Cal Parents & Families held a Facebook Live event with AVC and Dean of Students Sunny Lee and AVC and Director of Undergraduate Admissions Jocelyn De Jong.

Computing, Data Science, and Society
No 'shortcuts to inclusion': Building a pipeline to diversify STEM faculty

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.

Berkeley News
For UC Berkeley, 2022 was a year of speaking out and looking ahead

For UC Berkeley, 2022 was a year of speaking out — against injustice, against violence, against the patriarchy — and committing to a better future, together.

When Russia waged war on Ukraine in February, the campus community joined in solidarity and voiced its outrage and defiance. When Iranians rose up in protest against their repressive government and called for freedom, Berkeley students, staff and faculty spoke out in support of the protesters and what they stood for. And students on campus screamed together for the art project OUTCRY.

Berkeley News
Lisa García Bedolla: Post-strike, moving forward together

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.

Berkeley News
New Berkeley center to explore critical issues at intersection of politics, economy

A new UC Berkeley center will convene top scholars and students across a range of disciplines to conduct high-level research on critical social challenges at the intersection of politics and economics.

Berkeley Life: My GBO Leader Experience
Volunteer: GBO Student Leader

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.

Berkeley Life
Internship Stories @ Cal

Internships come in many flavors—and we like to share as many student stories as we can to help you aspire higher when you begin to look for an internship.

Many internships, like these, take place during the summer months when you have some extra time between sun and fun. While some students traveled abroad or participated in UC Berkeley prep programs, many pursued unique internships across the country. Here are some of their experiences to give you inspiration.

Berkeley Life
Finding Housing: What to Expect

Like most students, Melissa Mora-Gonzalez lived in a residence hall during her first year. But after choosing to pursue off-campus housing, she has some tips and tricks for other UC Berkeley students in their housing search. 

February 1, 2023

Berkeley News
It’s official: UC Berkeley’s new police chief is sworn in today

Yogananda Pittman took the oath of office today to become UC Berkeley’s new police chief, telling a festive, packed room in Sproul Hall — and East Coast family, friends and former co-workers on Zoom — that she is “ecstatic” to be starting her new role on campus. The former interim chief of the U.S.

January 16, 2023

Berkeley News
Seeing in Super-Resolution

What do the smallest building blocks of life look like? How do molecules dance and dart and drift through cells, fold and fuse and form the machinery of living things? For Ke Xu, a 2021 Heising-Simons Faculty Fellow, these questions are at the forefront of everything he does. Xu wants to visualize living cells at the nanoscale; he wants to see things that were—until he made it possible—unseeable. 

December 14, 2022

For UC Berkeley, 2022 was a year of speaking out and looking ahead

https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/12/13/top-stories-from-2022/

November 14, 2022

Berkeley News
Information on the ongoing strike at UC Berkeley

Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Benjamin Hermalin and Eugene Whitlock, chief people & culture officer, sent the following message to the campus community on Monday:

November 9, 2022

Light the Way Campaign
Light the Way reaches $6 billion with a gift that serves democracy

With a year remaining in UC Berkeley’s historic Light the Way campaign, an exciting new gift to support the Robert T. Matsui Center for Politics and Public Service at the Institute for Governmental Studies has brought the total to $6 billion, the campaign’s monetary goal.

November 1, 2022

Berkeley News
UC Berkeley is No. 1 public school for startup founders in 2022 Pitchbook rankings

For the fourth straight year, UC Berkeley topped the list as the nation’s best public university for startup founders, and it remains the second-best university among both private and public schools, according to Pitchbook’s 2022 annual rankings of universities released Monday (Oct. 31).

October 28, 2022

Berkeley News
In top graduating senior, East Coast grit meets Berkeley utopianism

Halfway through Anjika Pai’s junior year of high school, Donald Trump began his U.S. presidency. As one of the few Indian Americans in the pastoral community of Jamison, Pennsylvania, Pai braced herself for an onslaught of xenophobia.

“People’s bigotry around that time was out on full display, and there was nothing I could do to make them like me because of the way I look, as a brown person,” she recalls...

October 27, 2022

Berkeley Life
Hi, I Studied Abroad

Traveling abroad was my first adventure. Among strangers, I learned to depend on myself and to see the world from a different perspective. 

October 21, 2022

Berkeley News
How community spaces can empower students to mobilize, explore their identity

Growing up the child of cultural anthropologists, Karen Nakamura traveled around the world living in places like Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. And while being exposed to different cultures and communities at a young age helped her to conceptualize the world around her, Nakamura said she didn’t have a real sense of her own identity.