Monthly Archives: January 2021

a family rides in a car in the 1920s

Business & economics

Berkeley Talks: Will the post-pandemic era be the next ‘roaring ’20s’?

UC Berkeley economics professor Martha Olney discusses how post-pandemic consumer spending might compare to that of the so-called roaring 1920s

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Berkeley Talks transcript: Will the post-pandemic era be the next ‘roaring ’20s’?

students talk to each other outside at tables

Campus & community

Graduate Division sees record increase in underrepresented applicants

voter at ballot box wearing a surgical mask against COVID-19 virus

Politics & society

New Berkeley center will explore bipartisan security solutions

Sproul Plaza is empty on a recent morning during the coronavirus pandemic.

Record-high number of high school students apply to UC Berkeley

three researchers gather around gold-colored ultracold freezer

New fellows program supports taking risks in science

A photo of Jennifer Tour Chayes holding a book on computer programming in front of a bookshelf

Berkeley’s data science leader dedicated to advancing diversity in computing

President Trump talks to reporters outside of the white house

How did Trump change American journalism?

Sproul Plaza is empty on a recent morning during the coronavirus pandemic.

Transformative student housing project to redevelop university-owned apartment building

Berkeley Haas student Luis Liang holds up signage defending DACA at a DACA rally in front of San Francisco City Hall in 2018.

First profile in new Berkeley Haas series: Dreamer Luis Alejandro Liang

Sara Memeni smiles at the camera

Meet our new faculty: Sara Mameni, ethnic studies

Meet our new faculty: Zachary Lamb, environmental design

The U.S. capitol dome against a backdrop of dark clouds

One Berkeley faculty member, one alumnus join Biden economic team

From left to right: Johan, Christel, Sol, and Kelly Figueroa celebrating New Year's in Los Angeles' Boyle Heights neighborhood.

COVID Stories: Realizing the value you bring can mend relationships

Four Native Americans from campus stand under signage at Kroeber Hall; three are students and one is a staff member.

Kroeber Hall, honoring anthropologist who symbolizes exclusion, is unnamed

The Overpass Light Brigade of San Diego and Solidarity Brigade mobilized guerrilla light projections in solidarity with racial justice and immigrant rights. OLBSD went to UC San Diego pairing their messages with the lion signs expressing emotions of HOPE, ANGER and a desire for JUSTICE.

To end white supremacy, attack racist policy, not people