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From Cambodia’s killing fields to commencement at UC Berkeley
Chansitha Ouk, who was born in Cambodia during the civil war and nearly died in a child labor camp after the Khmer Rouge came to power, will graduate Saturday, May 12, with a bachelor's degree in media studies
Berkeley grad student brings home the 2018 ‘Slammy’
UC Berkeley's Joseph Charbonnet, a Ph.D. student in environmental engineering, won UC's 2018 Grad Slam
New UC Berkeley plans for People’s Park call for student, homeless housing
Plans also call for setting aside part of the 2.8-acre property for open and recreational space, as well as a physical memorial honoring the park’s history and legacy
Frequently asked questions about the plan for People’s Park
UC Berkeley’s plan to redevelop and revitalize People’s Park includes building a new a residential facility for students and to make land available for the construction of permanent supportive housing for members of the city’s
Frequently asked questions about supportive housing at People’s Park
The revitalization of People’s Park will include the construction of permanent, supportive housing for members of the city’s homeless population. The following provides answers from the campus to key questions. How supportive housing works What
Side by side: Graduating twins stick together for success
Cameron and Tyler Haberman, the only set of twins at Berkeley Haas, will both work in finance at Apple after they get their diplomas
Free Speech Commission issues its findings
Chancellor Christ is "delighted" to share the Free Speech Commission's report
Pioneering data science tool — Jupyter — receives top software prize
The Association of Computing Machinery gave its 2018 software award to a project that evolved from Fernando Pérez's grad-school project
Chancellor honors students, staff and faculty committed to public service
Among this year’s winners of Berkeley’s prestigious Awards of Public Service are the Cal Veterans student group whose members volunteered to help people who lost their homes during the North Bay wildfires, an undergraduate student who figured
National Academy of Sciences adds five Berkeley faculty members to its ranks
UC Berkeley has more than 135 faculty members who are members of the National Academy of Sciences
On Worthy Wage Day, early childhood educators fight for support
Marcy Whitebook, now the director of the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley, started the national day of action in 1992 with a group of teacher-activists
Poll: California voters sharply critical of Trump’s performance as president
A majority of California voters aren't happy with the job President Trump is doing overall, but a new poll shows feelings are highly partisan.
Town halls offer the chance to help write Berkeley’s next chapter
Berkeley faculty, staff, and students can weigh in on the work of the campus's Strategic Planning Steering Committee at two town halls this week
Students at 2016 Nice rampage now fight global terrorism
Nonprofits offer tech tools to track terrorists, entrepreneurial boot camps for at-risk youth
A scholar’s take on Starbucks, anti-bias training and the Berkeley experiment
Psychologist advocates for diversity at all levels and more cross-race friendships
Editing brain activity with holography
Device projects holographic images into brain to activate dozens of neurons at once, simulating real patterns of activity that fool the brain into perceiving things that aren't there
UC defends CRISPR patent rights in Court of Appeals
UC's lawyers argue that after the Doudna-Charpentier invention in 2012, use of CRISPR-Cas9 in plant and animal cells was obvious, and therefore the Broad Institute's patent interference should be reinstated
Hundreds of students join llama love-in as finals near
Hundreds relax and bond with the llamas before finals