Maria and Dave Kaval express their dedication to campus as Cal Parents Board chairs
The legendary rivalry between UC Berkeley and Stanford University has reverberated through the Bay Area for more than a century. But for Stanford alumni Maria and Dave Kaval, the competition between the universities became a bit friendlier once their eldest daughter, Stella ’25, was accepted at Berkeley — a turn of events that ultimately led to the couple’s new roles as chairs of the Cal Parents Board.
In a wide-ranging Campus Conversations event, Chief Yogananda Pittman talked about rising crime rates, basic safety measures and how the Jan. 6 insurrection has shaped her work since becoming UC Berkeley's top cop.
The rise in Cal Football’s success and popularity in the early 1900s was a core motivator for building a permanent stadium on campus. In order to finance the construction project, the Associated Students of the University of California launched a subscription drive. For every $100 donated, the subscriber would receive a “scrip,” or voucher, that could be used to buy discounted Big Game tickets for the next ten years.
From the UC Office of the President:
UC President Michael V. Drake has announced the formation of a search advisory committee of university faculty, staff, students, alumni and foundation representatives to help in the international search for a new chancellor to lead the Berkeley campus. Regent Richard Leib, the Board of Regents Chair for 2022-2024, appointed five Regents to serve on the committee.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
The story behind the summer blockbuster movie Oppenheimer, which opens across the nation on Friday, July 21, began at the University of California, Berkeley.
A 25-year-old J. Robert Oppenheimer arrived at UC Berkeley in fall 1929 as an assistant professor, and over the next dozen years established one of the greatest schools of theoretical physics in the U.S. — one that continues to this day. He made UC Berkeley’s physics department the center of American thought about the new field of quantum mechanics and how to apply it to atoms, nuclei and even neutron stars.
The College of Engineering celebrated the groundbreaking of its new Engineering Center on April 21, 2023, amid cheers from hundreds of benefactors, staff, faculty, and students. This event marks a key milestone toward creating a nexus for student collaboration, innovation, and entrepreneurship on campus.
The No. 1 California Golden Bears repeated as Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) national champions, as the varsity eight won its grand final at Mercer Lake in June. The title marks the 19th for the program (tied for second most in the country), second for Cal head coach Scott Frandsen (2022, '23), and is the 103rd all-time national championship for Cal Athletics.
Legal studies major Rebekah Flores ’24 hadn’t thought a lot about social welfare before she joined her second Berkeley Connect cohort. After a positive experience with the Berkeley Connect in English program, Flores decided to “dip her toe” into a second area of scholarship outside of her major. While she remains dedicated to and passionate about legal studies, she enjoys the opportunities that Berkeley Connect provides to explore a wide array of subjects in a relaxed atmosphere.
Are you moving to UC Berkeley soon and thinking about what you need to bring? If so, this article is for you. While Berkeley Housing provides a standard move-in checklist that should inform your packing, this article contains an in-depth supplemental list tailored for students, by students.
UC Berkeley researchers have designed an extreme-weather proven, hand-held device that can extract and convert water molecules from the air into drinkable water using only ambient sunlight as its energy source, a study published in Nature Water shows.
Welcome, incoming Cal students!
You’re new to Berkeley, you’re busy people, but at some point you may find yourself looking for a good book to read (or documentary to watch) – one that isn’t an assignment for a class. When you are, we’d like to invite you to peruse this year’s edition of the Summer Reading List for New Students, a list of great reads suggested just for you by your fellow Cal students, faculty, and staff.
What Dacher Keltner teaches isn’t likely to land you a job on Wall Street or even make you more hireable, but that’s not really the point.
Rather, it’s an opportunity to grapple with one of the oldest and most important questions: “How can we live the good life? One enlivened by joy and community and meaning, that brings us a sense of worth and belonging and strengthens the people and natural environments around us?”
Cal Parents & Families Facebook Live with new UCPD Chief Yogananda Pittman and as well as other representatives from campus administration. If you would like to ask a question to Chief Pittman or our administration, please send your questions to calparents@berkeley.edu or simply write them in the comments on the post.
The UC Board of Regents voted to establish UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), the campus’s first new college in more than 50 years.
The college will develop, implement and share high-quality, ethics-oriented and accessible curricula, educating a diverse student body in data science, computing and statistics. It will also create new fields, applications and solutions to societal problems through groundbreaking, multidisciplinary research that capitalizes on Berkeley’s excellence across campus.
