Monthly Archives: February 2023

audience sitting in library listening to poetry

Campus & community

In arts and humanities at UC Berkeley, a blend of old and new

The humanities must play an important role at any major research university

Two flags near a burned building

Campus & community

Missile sirens, research resolve: Ukrainians at Berkeley reflect on a year at war

a person wearing sunglasses looks into the distance

Arts & culture

Former Pacific Film Archive director Tom Luddy dies at 79

students throung through Sther Gate at UC Berkeley as in-person classes resume

Campus & community

UC Berkeley ‘dismayed’ by court ruling to delay student housing

Illustration of Amrita Bhasin

Amrita Bhasin: In the tech and startup world, female representation matters

Hannah Weisman, the new executive director of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, smiles at the camera. She is wearing eyeglasses and a print top with a necklace.

How is The Magnes rethinking its engagement with museum visitors?

Jovan Scott Lewis portrait

What does California owe descendants of the enslaved?

graphic illustration featuring Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (left); Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden (center); and former Republican President Donald Trump (right)

California support for Biden rising, while GOP turning from Trump, IGS Poll finds

A photo shows a forested hillside. A large swath of the landscape is now bare of trees.

Will war in Ukraine escalate the global land rush?

a person walks a bicycle by a destroyed building

Berkeley Talks: Economists on what it’ll take to rebuild Ukraine

Berkeley Talks transcript: Economists on what it’ll take to rebuild Ukraine

Students walk under Sather Gate

Record number of California residents apply to UC Berkeley

A portrait of a smiling woman with a red blazer next to a cover a book called The Burnout Challenge.

Burned out? Berkeley expert’s book offers roadmap to a better workplace

the North Reading Room in Doe library is filled with masked students

New long-term space plan for UC Berkeley’s library

Gopala Anumanchipalli smiles at the camera

Can computers speak for us?

an elementary school official consults with two students

California funds historic UC initiative to develop school leaders, build equity