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In August 2021, a judge from the Superior Court of Alameda County ruled in favor of the residents, and on March 3, 2022, the California Supreme Court also ruled in favor of the residents, saying that the university needed to freeze its admission rates at 2020–2021 levels.
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In January, UC Berkeley’s Kroeber Hall became the fourth building on campus to be stripped of its name in a year’s time. The decision by Berkeley officials capped a formal review process and was made, in large part, because the building’s namesake — Alfred Louis Kroeber, born in 1876 and the founder of the study of anthropology in the American West — is a powerful symbol that continues to evoke exclusion and erasure for Native Americans.
A day after the Jan. 6 storming and siege of the U.S. Capitol, UC Berkeley scholars expressed their views about the attempted coup that shook the world and the issues it raises, including the GOP’s enabling of President Trump’s delusions about overturning the election, a pernicious double standard in policing along racial lines, a lack of preparation by law enforcement and congressional leadership for the disputed certification of electoral college votes, and the coddling of white supremacist...
In the fourth story in a series of stories about how members of the campus community were surviving — and even thriving — during the COVID-19 pandemic, Alberto Sanchez-Sanchez, a Ph.D. candidate in architecture at the College of Environmental Design, discusses how he restored a 17th century manor in Spain. Read more COVID Stories.
In a paper published in February in the journal Nature, a collaboration of physicists and engineers from across the country described a new experiment that harnesses the weirdness of quantum mechanics to accelerate the search for the axion, one of two leading hypothetical subatomic particles that may make up the bulk of dark matter in the universe.
In March, it had been a year since Chancellor Carol Christ sent a message to all 60,000 members of the campus community announcing that UC Berkeley would be switching to remote learning, canceling events for more than 150 people and asking most workers to do their jobs from home. Berkeley News talked with students, faculty and staff across campus about their experiences over that year. Also, read: Chancellor Carol Christ: Reflecting on a year like no other and Spring semester 2021: Pandemic-e...
March’s mass shootings at a string of massage parlors in the Atlanta area left eight people dead, including six people of Asian descent. Those killings — along with a rise in anti-Asian attacks in major cities — are an unsurprising reminder of the long history of anti-Asian violence in America, said UC Berkeley Asian American studies associate professor Lok Siu.Berkeley Newsspoke with Siu about how economic and capitalistic structures can produce racial violence, and why it is important for c...
Two years after cutting ties with publishing industry giant Elsevier, producer of more than 2,600 scholarly journals, the University of California system today announced in March that it has reached with Elsevier the largest open access agreement of its kind in North America.
In a trial with profound implications for racial justice and policing in America, a Minnesota jury in April found former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd nearly 11 months ago. The verdict, says UC Berkeley law professor Jonathan Simon, probably rested heavily on the shocking video of Floyd pinned to the ground and on powerful testimony by police leaders against the former officer. Also, read: UC Berkeley leaders: Chauvin v...
“It’s 1968 and near the end of April,” wrote Roxanne Makasdjian, director of broadcast communications in Berkeley’s Department of Communications and Public Affairs, in April. “A feeling of sheer joy comes over me as I do barrel rolls down the hill where the new Armenian Genocide monument was being consecrated in Montebello, Calif. I’m 6 years old, oblivious to the meaning of the day, feeling like I had hit the jackpot — a smooth, grassy hill of just the right incline to allow for an exciting...
Philip Kan Gotanda is a professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies and one of the most prolific playwrights of Asian American-themed work in the United States. In the first podcast episode of a three-part series, Gotanda talks about growing up in Stockton, California, after World War II and the anti-Japanese racism that he couldn’t name as a child, but that he’d go on to write about as an adult. Also, listen: How the Asian American movement began at Berkel...
In May, the campus devised a livestreamed, five-day, in-person procession of 2021 Berkeley graduates to give students what they said they wanted most at a pandemic-era graduation: the opportunity to walk across the stage and receive something physically tangible from an academic leader, to give them a sense of closure. Also, listen: Wally Adeyemo to graduates: You are prepared to shape the world and read: Top graduating senior a tech whiz and gifted musician. Read more graduation stories and...
Global land-use changes — including forest fragmentation, agricultural expansion and concentrated livestock production — are creating “hot spots” favorable for bats that carry coronaviruses and where conditions are ripe for the diseases to jump from bats to humans, found an analysis published in June by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, the Politecnico di Milano (Polytechnic University of Milan) and Massey University of New Zealand.
“When I was hired as UC Berkeley’s Director of LGBTQ+ Advancement and Equity in the Gender Equity Center this month, I was so excited,” wrote Em Huang in June. “The opportunity to contribute to the policies and practices that will impact queer, trans and BIPOC folks is something I look forward to helping shape. Also, the ability to stay connected to students is so important to me. I think institutions of higher education can be valuable as a space where students are often leaving home for the...
Not long after California’s June 15 grand reopening, a celebration of the lifting of most of its COVID-19 restrictions, a substantial uptick in cases prompted L.A. County to reinstate its indoor mask mandate. A number of Bay Area counties quickly followed suit, issuing strong recommendations, including for those who were vaccinated.To learn more about the dangers posed by the Delta variant and its effect on the future of the pandemic, Berkeley Newsspoke with Maya Petersen, chair of the biosta...
In 2019, Anaïs Llorens and Athina Tzovara — one a current, the other a former University of California, Berkeley, postdoctoral scholar at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (HWNI) — were attending a scientific meeting and pleased that one session, on gender bias in academia, attracted nearly a full house. The problem: The audience of some 300 was almost all women. That was only one of the incidents that led the two women to round up 45 men and women from 40 institutions across 10 countrie...
For nearly half a century, lightning-sparked blazes in Yosemite’s Illilouette Creek Basin have rippled across the landscape — closely monitored, but largely unchecked. The result is approximately 60 square miles of forest broken up by patches of grassland, shrubland and wet meadows filled with wildflowers more abundant than in other parts of the forest. “It really is a glimpse into what the Sierra Nevada was like 200 years ago,” said Scott Stephens, a professor of environmental science, polic...
UC Berkeley’s campus sprang to life in August as thousands of new students moved from their old homes to their new ones in the many residence halls across the campus. The transition marked a milestone for UC Berkeley — the official return of a fully vibrant campus after the COVID-19 pandemic pushed classes online and students, staff and faculty into socially isolated bubbles. Read more back-to-school stories and new student profiles.
Students by the hundreds streamed through Sather Gate on a brilliant morning in August, en route to class, or the library, or the familiar comforts of the Free Speech Movement Café. It was such a pleasant scene, so familiar, and yet for Brianna Rivera, a UC Berkeley senior in English, it was skewing a little strange. She was walking to her first class of the semester, English 165, which will look at the classic 19th century novel Jane Eyre through the lens of Black women writers. A promising...
Five new faculty members at UC Berkeley inSeptember hailed from disparate U.S. states, academic disciplines and personal backgrounds. But they were already forming a team partnered around one critical global issue — climate equity and environmental justice — as part of six interdisciplinary faculty “cluster hires” underway on campus.
Long before sports superstars Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles braved the spotlight to defend their mental health, Graig Chow, a certified mental performance consultant at UC Berkeley, studied the culture that pushes elite athletes like NBA players Chamique Holdsclaw, Kevin Love and DeMar DeRozan to their breaking points. What he found was a top-down global sports establishment that has trouble differentiating between competitive anxiety and clinical mental disorders. By the time top athletes bow...
In October, David Card, a labor economist and professor of economics at UC Berkeley, won the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for work that challenged orthodoxy and dramatically shifted understanding of inequality and the social and economic forces that impact low-wage workers. He was awarded half the prize, with the other half shared by economists Joshua Angrist of MIT and Guido Imbens of Stanford University. Also, watch: UC Berkeley economist David Card’s Nobel Prize press con...
In October, there was a new garden at UC Berkeley, but for Adina Lewis and other Indigenous people in the campus community, it’s much more than flora and fauna. The Indigenous Community Learning Garden is a place where both they and native plants can connect and thrive. On 1,050 square feet in the Oxford Tract, at the campus’s northwest corner, the four-month-old garden boasts Dakota Ivory corn, Cherokee Purple tomatoes, Chiletepin peppers, California buckwheat, tree mallow, white sage, nativ...
Berkeley, UCLA, and UC San Diego all ranked in the top 50 universities in the world according to both the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2021 and the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) for 2020, while UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, and UC Davis ranked in the top 100 universities in the world.
History & discoveries. For over 150 years, UC Berkeley has been reimagining the world by challenging convention and generating unparalleled intellectual, economic and social value. Take a look back at Berkeley’s milestones and discoveries and learn more about our 26 faculty Nobel Prize winners and 35 alumni winners.
