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You’re the next chapter in Berkeley’s greatness, ASUC leader tells new students

‘I say with 100% confidence that this is a school of change-makers,’ ASUC President Amma Sarkodee-Adoo tells new Berkeley students

Portrait of Barry Stroud.

Barry Stroud, influential, independent-minded philosopher, dies at 84

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Campus & Community

Carol Christ to new students: ‘Shape Berkeley, even as it shapes you’

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DeAndra McDaniel on joining track: 'We're going to shoot to the moon'

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Campus & Community

With There There, an intellectual connection across campus

A group of turtles sits on a log in a sunny lake.

How red-eared invaders are hurting California’s native turtles

Student Milton Zerman holds a framed photo of Robert Merriman, a PhD student who left campus in the late 1930s to fight in Spain.

Student honors 1930s anti-fascist war hero, ‘the best of us’

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Here’s how early humans evaded immunodeficiency viruses

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Storms on Jupiter are disturbing the planet’s colorful belts