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.
Students looking for the right major to become global citizens in today’s world are increasingly turning to the arts and humanities at Berkeley.
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.
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.
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.
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Benjamin Hermalin and Eugene Whitlock, chief people & culture officer, sent the following message to the campus community on Monday:
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.
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).
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...
Traveling abroad was my first adventure. Among strangers, I learned to depend on myself and to see the world from a different perspective.
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.
When Jade Jaimes-Chavez moved to UC Berkeley in August, she was homesick.
As a first-generation undergraduate Latinx student, and the oldest of three sisters, she grew up taking care of her siblings with a close-knit family in Orange Cove, a predominately Chicanx/Latinx agricultural community in Central California. At Berkeley, she wasn’t sure she belonged, and she missed the support of her family...
Fitness is not just relegated to free weights and cardio machines. Rec Sports offers a variety of services to not only enrich a traditional fitness experience (like free weights and cardio equipment), but also extend beyond those avenues.
When Steve Kerr first visited UC Berkeley’s Harmon Gym as a freshman guard for the Arizona Wildcats in 1984, he could not have anticipated the deep connection he and his future wife, Margot, would one day develop with UC Berkeley and the entire Bay Area.
In Preparing for an Internship we spoke with two Career Center employees, Shana Love, Assistant Director for Experiential Learning, and Adrianne Johnson, Assistant Director for Alumni and Employer Engagement, about the internship process. Here they share some information about what to know before you start your search for an internship and where to find them.
As college students, we have access to a wide variety of resources that make new experiences affordable. Why not take advantage of as many of them as we can, and have fun while doing so? This list of opportunities is meant to be on the lighthearted side. From things to do around Berkeley, to other places to travel to and more, read what UC Berkeley students can discover.
You might have heard about Berkeley Life’s Summer Selfies Contest that was held over Instagram through June and August. We’re sharing a small handful of the rich and varied summer experiences that students described in the survey, along with quotes about what they’re looking forward to exploring at UC Berkeley during the academic year.
As a rising third-year student, I have really enjoyed my classes every semester—and a big reason why is the way I pick them. All you need are three resources which complement the foundational ones UC Berkeley offers: CalCentral, the Academic Guide, and more as described in Kaylie’s article
In 1971, graduate student Stuart Freedman and postdoctoral fellow John Clauser took over a room in the sub-basement of Birge Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, and built an experiment that would put to the test one of the most enduring weirdnesses of quantum mechanics, what Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.”
