UC Berkeley graduate schools and programs scored high in the 2023 Best Graduate Schools rankings released today by U.S. News & World Report. The campus is among 800 institutions with graduate schools surveyed annually by the magazine, which also surveys more than 2,100 graduate programs, including programs at UC Berkeley...
ATLANTA – In a total team performance that saw the Golden Bears produce points throughout their lineup, Cal captured the NCAA Championship in men's swimming & diving Saturday, the seventh time in school history the team has stood atop the podium.
Destin Lasco got the Bears going by winning the 200-yard backstroke Saturday, and Cal consistently put up high finishes throughout the final session of the four-day meet...
In a star-studded private event Friday, March 11th, the College of Chemistry ushered in its 150th anniversary. On hand for the celebration were three Nobel laureates in Chemistry: Jennifer Doudna (2020), David MacMillan (2021), and a special guest appearance by Yuan T. Lee (1986). Jennifer and David unveiled their newly installed plaques honoring their Nobel prize in the College’s Latimer lobby...
Novel partnerships unveiled today — one between UC Berkeley, the city of Berkeley and several local nonprofit organizations, and the other between the campus, the city and a local church — will support unhoused individuals who live and gather in People’s Park, where work will begin this summer on urgently-needed student housing and on an open space revitalization project...
California lawmakers on Monday voted unanimously to pass legislation that overturns court decisions that required UC Berkeley to freeze student enrollment to 2020-21 levels. The bill was then signed into...
The University of California, Berkeley, mourns the loss of Richard C. Blum, ’58, M.B.A. ’59, a visionary leader and philanthropist whose profound impact was felt from the nation’s capital to the Himalayas to his beloved alma mater and beyond. He passed away at his home in San Francisco on Sunday, Feb. 27, at the age of 86...
Former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has joined Berkeley SkyDeck, UC Berkeley’s flagship startup accelerator, as an adviser. She will provide support and expertise for new civic technology companies that aim to enhance the relationships between people and government through technology...
Construction has begun on a 772-bed, apartment-style housing project for UC Berkeley transfer students that is being designed, built and funded by the Helen Diller Foundation.
The 500,000 square-foot building, named Helen Diller Anchor House, will be gifted to Berkeley upon its completion and is anticipated to be open in time for the 2024-2025 academic year...
Each February we celebrate Black History Month by highlighting achievements, tribulations and everyday experiences across UC Berkeley’s increasingly diverse Black community.
It was a year full of stress and trauma generated by the pandemic, racial violence, threats to voting rights and, just today, threats to more than a dozen Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Universities should be places of...