In January, UC Berkeley invited the campus community — about 56,000 people — to share their experiences with sexual violence and sexual harassment in a comprehensive survey, called MyVoice. The findings, released in September, are being used to inform campus violence prevention, intervention and response efforts. (UC Berkeley photo composite by Hulda Nelson
The Eclipse Megamovie Project received some 50,000 photos of the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse from amateur astronomers and avid photographers. By January, the photos had been stitched together to create an extended view of the eclipse (aka the Megamovie, which will help us better understand the behavior and mechanisms of the solar corona. (Photo courtesy of Rick Feinberg
In February, Luis Mora, an undocumented undergraduate student, shared his story about being detained for three weeks by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “I believe everything happens for a reason,” he says. “My detainment has motivated me in a way to get my message out there — that this is what immigration really looks like. We’re just humans, like Americans, trying to achieve a better life. We all have dreams.” (UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small
UC Berkeley held a conference at the end of February to examine race in the U.S. 50 years after the release of the Kerner Report, a 462-page document that investigated the immediate causes of the 1967 race riots, as well as the racial segregation and discrimination that gave rise to them. At the conference, dozens of scholars and experts from the campus and across the country — including john powell (pictured, a UC Berkeley professor of law, African American studies and ethnic studies — discussed the commission’s legacy and envisioned what a contemporary Kerner Report might look like. (UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small
“Following our curiosity and celebrating the act of discovery, it turns out, can pay off many times over in the long term,” Chancellor Carol Christ says. (UC Berkeley photo by Keegan Houser
In April, Llamapalooza, UC Berkeley’s first-ever llama festival, was a llama love-in, with hundreds of students petting, grooming, feeding, hugging and taking selfies with the animals on Memorial Glade. (UC Berkeley photo by Tonya Becerra
An empty basketball court fills a corner of People’s Park, where UC Berkeley plans to build new student and supportive housing. (UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small
Thousands of graduates, decked out in black caps, gowns and colorful variations thereof, marched onto the sun-drenched field at the California Memorial Stadium to “Pomp and Circumstance” to celebrate UC Berkeley’s May commencement on Saturday.
“It feels great,” says Sumana Al Gharbi, one of the more than 5,500 graduates at the ceremony. “Berkeley was a place where I had to test myself a lot — it was a very competitive place — but I definitely grew up a lot here. I wouldn’t have grown so much if it weren’t for Berkeley.”
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Sean Brown, a UC Berkeley sophomore this fall, is from the Bishop Paiute Tribe in Bishop, California. (UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small
At the end of July, students got a sneak peak at David Blackwell Hall, the first new residence hall to open at Berkeley since 2012. The building, which houses more than 700 students, opened in August for freshmen to move in. (UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small
Mariana Soto Sanchez, a first-year student, is interested in pursuing a degree in psychology. (UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small
A 4,500-square-foot universal locker room at the campus’s Recreational Sports Facility (RSF opened in September. It’s believed to be the first large-scale collegiate universal locker room in California and one of just a few in the nation. Any students or other RSF members needing more privacy, including those who are transgender, non-binary or have disabilities or body image struggles, will find a welcoming facility next door to the men’s and women’s locker rooms. (UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small
Immunologist James P. Allison, who shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, launched much of his research at UC Berkeley’s Cancer Research Laboratory. (UC Berkeley photo by Stephen McNally
The Cas9 protein/RNA complex that homes in on DNA complementary to the RNA guide and cuts the double-stranded DNA, like a precision-targeted DNA scissors.
In a direct response to the profound and growing impact of data and computing in a rapidly evolving digital world, UC Berkeley today announced its plan to form a new division, provisionally referred to as the Division of Data Science and Information, which will harness the university’s leadership in the field to prepare thousands of students and researchers to bring data science to bear in the classroom, the laboratory and the workplace. The first-of-its-kind division, situated as a peer of Berkeley’s colleges and schools, represents one of the most profound changes in the university’s organization in decades. (UC Berkeley graphic by Hulda Nelson
In November, the Camp Fire broke out in Northern California, killing more than 80 people. Berkeley student Elisabeth Earley, from Paradise, a town in Butte County, shares how she and her family lost everything to the deadliest fire in the state’s history. (Photo courtesy of Elisabeth Earley
Chancellor Carol Christ announced in December UC Berkeley’s new 10-year campus strategic plan, one that will bring the campus closer to its ideal self: a hub of world-changing research and innovative teaching that welcomes a diverse group of students, staff and faculty intent on solving climate change, ending inequality and strengthening democracy. (UC Berkeley photo by Keegan Houser
