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Campus responds to report on sexual harassment and sexual violence
UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and Robert Powell, chair of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate, sent this message today to the campus community: Dear campus community, We are writing to respond to the
A competition to make food more sustainable
A Berkeley-Haas team was one of 10 finalist graduate school teams—culled from a total of more than 70 teams—selected to pitch their ideas in the Patagonia Case Competition
Scenes from a sunny end-of-semester campus
On a sunny Friday, UC Berkeley photographer Hulda Nelson took a lunchtime stroll around campus and came back with these snapshots of our students, as finals week — and summer — slide closer.
Berkeley is nation’s best-value college, according to Forbes
For the second straight year, Berkeley tops the Forbes list, and three other UC campuses — UCLA, Irvine and Davis — are ranked in the top 10
A note of thanks from the chancellor to the City of Berkeley
Dirks expresses gratitude for "an unprecedented level of coordination and cooperation at every level of city and police operations," which kept both campus and the community safe yesterday
Celebrating ‘barefoot anthropology’ — a Q&A with Nancy Scheper-Hughes
To honor her work, Berkeley’s Department of Anthropology is holding a two-day conference on May 1 and 2 called “Anthropology on the Front Lines."
Backstage at Le Temple de la Gloire, a master of wigs
Wig master Mazena Puksto and her assistant put hair on the heads of more than 30 performers for 1745 opera-ballet, the latest production from Cal Performances
Campus did ‘everything in its power’ to protect Coulter’s rights, students’ safety
At an afternoon news conference, Dan Mogulof, assistant vice chancellor for public affairs, and Capt. Alex Yao of the UC Police Department said the campus had done everything in its power to protect Coulter’s First Amendment rights while also ensuring the safety of the campus community.
From the chancellor: A message on safety
Chancellor Nicholas Dirks sent this message to the UC Berkeley community late today: To the Berkeley community, I am writing to follow up on this morning’s message regarding free speech, safety, and Ann Coulter’s planned
50 years later, a replaying of MLK’s speech at Sproul
This Saturday, April 29, in tandem with the Summer of Love 50th Anniversary festival, the ASUC will replay a recording of King’s speech in its entirety and rededicate a photo of him taken that day
New message from the chancellor about possible Coulter visit
Chancellor Nicholas Dirks sent a message about Ann Coulter's possible appearance on campus tomorrow, Thursday, April 27
Berkeley scholars chosen for 2017 Carnegie fellowships
Rucker Johnson of UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy has been chosen one of 35 recipients of 2017 Carnegie fellowships.
With Google’s help, psychologist tackles ‘black troublemaker’ school stereotype
Empathy intervention combats knee-jerk suspensions, expulsions of African American teens
Walter Alvarez: A geologist ponders the improbability of life
In his new book, the originator of the theory that a comet or asteroid killed off the dinosaurs discusses the origins of life itself
Berkeley a finalist for $1 million Cooke Prize for Equity in Educational Excellence
It is the largest award in the nation recognizing a college making strides in enrolling low-income students and supporting them to graduation
UC responds to state audit report on Office of the President
President Janet Napolitano welcomed most of the recommendations in the report — about budget practices and administrative expenditures —as constructive but raised significant concerns about some
Hubert Dreyfus, preeminent philosopher and AI critic, dies at 87
A scholar of Heidegger who taught generations of independent thinkers
Campus, city to mark WWII evacuation of Japanese Americans, 75 years on
Seventy-five years ago, during WW II, 1,300 people of Japanese ancestry in Berkeley were rounded up and moved into prisons called internment camps
Swing, science, sentience make for a memorable Cal Day 2017
UC Berkeley opened its doors Saturday for Cal Day, its annual all-day open house, and tens of thousands prospective and current students, alumni, families and friends flooded the campus to explore its many resources and opportunities.
C.V. Starr East Asian Library acquires massive and rare Chinese film studies collection
Paul Foronoff filled two whole apartments with movie magazines, posters, stills, other periodicals and ephemera, much it from the pre-Mao era