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February 14, 2023

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.

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.

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. 

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.

Berkeley News
Winter Commencement

At winter commencement, celebration and a look forward.

Berkeley News
Lots to celebrate, lots to work on, Carol Christ says in semesterly update

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.

Parent volunteers and donors: ‘We are very big on giving back’

Miaad and Albert Bushala have always given their all when it comes to supporting their children’s education. The couple from Orange County, Calif, were active parents at the arts high school their two kids attended, and that desire to make a difference has extended to their children’s college experiences, including that of their daughter at UC Berkeley.

Big Give 2023: Be a shining star on March 9

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.

Athletics: Spring Sports

We are approaching the busiest time of the year for Cal Athletics, when the winter sports season collides with the beginning of spring sports. By the end of February, nineteen of our sports will be competing simultaneously.

What's happening at Cal Dining?

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.

Berkeley News
Defying negative stereotypes, humanities majors are booming at Berkeley

Students looking for the right major to become global citizens in today’s world are increasingly turning to the arts and humanities at Berkeley.

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.

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.