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uc berkeley students walk by the music department's Morrison Hall on campus

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‘Crucial for the human spirit’: Why the music major is booming at Berkeley

A curriculum overhaul and a post-pandemic need to reconnect have made music UC Berkeley's fastest-growing major.

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The roots of the groove of African American pop music, explained

Daniel Handler and Chanan Tigay talk on stage at an event for the Magnes' inaugural Jewish Arts & Bookfest

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Berkeley Talks: Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) on reading the authors you want to write like

Priyanka D’Souza, pictured sitting on one of the wheeled stools installed as part of her MFA exhibition, before various works created for the exhibition mounted on a shelf viewable at seated height.

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This Berkeley MFA exhibition probes how museums and institutions exclude disabled bodies

Two images side by side: on the left, two knights fight each other on horseback; on the right, the knight ask a woman for forgiveness after he killed her husband

Why did medieval readers kiss, smudge and deface their books?

a man in a red hat and winter gear stands onboard the green deck of a ship with red railing in Antarctica. He is holding a camera and filming something, looking focused.

In a tiny boat 7,800 miles from UC Berkeley, graduate students made a daring documentary

Why Berkeley’s Center for Jewish Studies teaches three Jewish languages

An image of the Pulitzer Prize medal shows the front and the back. The medal is gold, with the image of Ben Franklin on one side and on the back is someone operating a printing press.

Six UC Berkeley alumni named 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners

Lewis Hamilton in a white suit, Angela Bassett in a blue suit wearing a black velvet hat, Zendaya in a white suit and matching wide-brimmed hat, Gigi Hadid in a gold dress, and Ayo Edebiri in a white and coral dress, all on a blue carpet

Did the Met Gala’s attendees live up to its Black dandy-inspired theme? UC Berkeley experts discuss

Emily Thompson, clad in a cap and gown, holds her 2-year-old, Caspian, also wearing a small gown, while her other kid, River, stands next to her. She's smiling widely.

After wilderness therapy, this graduate found her own path at UC Berkeley

Workers building a stand and case to hold a large Diego Rivera mural at Doe Library.

Stunning Diego Rivera mural starts a new chapter at UC Berkeley’s Doe Library

about a dozen covers of books in the 2025 summer reading list

This year’s UC Berkeley summer reading list theme? Generosity

two images side by side: on the left, the cover of the book Open Socrates and on the right, Judith Butler and Agnes Callard in a conversation

Berkeley Talks: The case for a philosophical life, with Agnes Callard and Judith Butler

a multistory museum with a brown lattice exterior pictured at night, with a white obelisk rising in the background.

Executive actions aim to reshape America’s cultural institutions. UC Berkeley scholars react

Dancers from the Joffrey Ballet perform on stage

Cal Performances announces its 2025-26 season

an mfa student stands in front of his artwork

Out in Richmond, an unusual facility hosts UC Berkeley’s MFA art studios

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