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March 15, 2024

Moffitt Library has been through many changes since it opened in 1970, but it has always been central to the Berkeley experience — the library averages over a million visits annually.

March 13, 2024

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The total exceeds the capital campaign's goal of $6 billion; 76% of the more than 1 million gifts were $1,000 or less.

 

February 20, 2024

Berkeley News

As a sign of the University of California, Berkeley's ability to attract the most promising early-career researchers, nine young assistant professors have been named 2024 Sloan Research Fellows, the largest number from any institution.

February 9, 2024

A shelter-in-place order was lifted after investigators secured the site.

February 9, 2024

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January 18, 2024

Berkeley News

With so much brilliance at UC Berkeley — from headline-grabbing research to stellar faculty members across disciplines — it’s impossible for undergraduates, many scouting for their academic passions, to sample it all while on campus.

January 3, 2024

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UC Berkeley began work early Thursday morning to close the People’s Park construction site, where it will build housing for students and for unhoused people, pending resolution by the California Supreme Court of legal challenges. It also plans to preserve more than 60% of the 2.8-acre site, revitalizing open park space that also reinforces the park’s history.

December 18, 2023

Berkeley News

Some 1,000 students participated in Saturday’s event; Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna was the keynote speaker.

Jade Amor-Shannan Johnson and Cerenity Bush stood under the bright winter sun on Saturday, proudly waiting to process into UC Berkeley’s Haas Pavilion and wearing personalized caps bedecked in glitter, illustrations and motivating phrases.

Johnson’s cap said, “The marathon continues,” and Bush’s quoted Maya Angelou: “Success is loving life and daring to live it.”

December 12, 2023

Berkeley News

The year 2023 was a year of innovation and major change at UC Berkeley. From emerging work on artificial intelligence to the announcement of Chancellor Carol Christ’s upcoming retirement to a flurry of new construction on campus, Berkeley faced and embraced the future.

November 15, 2023

Berkeley News

For the first time, the campus is using mass timber — a lighter, safer and more energy-efficient alternative to traditional concrete and steel construction — in construction.

October 31, 2023

Berkeley News

The Dwinelle Annex will undergo interior and exterior architectural updates to make it accessible for DSP’s diverse community of students.

For the first time in its over 50-year history, UC Berkeley’s Disabled Students’ Program (DSP) will have its own building, a campus investment that will centralize DSP staff and services, expand its facilities and make them more accessible, and improve support for the program’s community of 5,000 students.   

October 26, 2023

Berkeley News

Some 60 languages are taught on campus, and revitalizing and preserving endangered languages is a priority.

At least 60 languages — from Mongolian and Old Norse to Polish, Catalan, Ancient Egyptian, Arabic and Biblical Hebrew — are taught at UC Berkeley, one of the nation’s top institutions for the breadth and depth of its world languages program. A growing emphasis also is being placed at Berkeley on revitalizing and preserving endangered languages, most of them spoken by Indigenous peoples.

October 18, 2023

Chancellor Carol Christ sent to the following message to the Berkeley campus community Thursday afternoon.

October 17, 2023

Public Affairs

UC Berkeley is the No. 1 U.S. public university, the sixth-best among public and private universities nationally and the world’s ninth-best university overall, according to the Times Higher Education’s 2024 World University Rankings, released today (Sept. 27, 2023).   

The Times Higher Ed World University Rankings evaluated more than 1,900 universities across 99 countries and territories. 

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Alumni, parents, students and the community came together in a variety of events on campus to celebrate Homecoming 2023. Go Bears!

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October 4, 2023


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September 12, 2023

The 2023 Pitchbook rankings also found that Berkeley was the No. 1 public university for startup founders.

UC Berkeley has taken the top spot for the number of venture-funded startups its undergraduate alumni have founded, according to data from the 2023 PitchBook university rankings released Monday. 

Berkeley undergraduate founders have created more companies than undergraduate founders from any other university in the world.

September 7, 2023

New treatments for cancer and heart disease and new tools to remove tumors are among seven innovations selected this year to receive a Bakar Fellows Spark Award, which includes funding, resources and mentorship to accelerate translation of faculty-led research to benefit society.

September 5, 2023

Five UC Berkeley-led projects will receive a total of $13.9 million in grants to advance research that builds climate resilience and equity in California, including mitigating wildfire risk, ensuring the equitable distribution of water and improving K-12 climate justice education, the University of California (UC) announced today.

August 22, 2023

Ask big questions. Seek new experiences. And it’s OK if you get lost on campus.

Such was the advice to the roughly 10,000 new UC Berkeley students who gathered Thursday at the 2023 New Student Convocation at Haas Pavilion. Between rousing performances from Cal Raijin Taiko (Berkeley’s Japanese drumming ensemble) and Berkeley rally chants, campus leaders encouraged students to find their passion — be it in the form of scholarly research, public service or creative projects.