Posts by Anne Brice

People

What makes HBO’s ‘The Pitt’ feel so real? Two UC Berkeley alums who bring the show to life explain

Production designer Nina Ruscio and casting director Cathy Sandrich Gelfond dish on designing “triggering” hospital sets, casting for raw authenticity and how their time at Berkeley taught them to watch life closely, turning every detail into material for an immersive narrative. 

Science & environment

Traditional Pacific navigators bring the intricate science of wayfinding to the Bay Area

Business & economics

What do parasitic worms and wages have in common? More than you think - Audio

Humanities

The U.S. housing crisis looms large. Could a Thai model help solve it?  - Audio

How Emily Dickinson’s musical poetry pushes us to live more expansively

In 18th‑century China, these artists made Europeans’ portraits. Only now are their identities emerging.

This Berkeley professor is exposing the hidden physical toll of our digital world 

Rewriting the code: The inside story of the first CRISPR cure - Audio

Come in, sit, stay a while: How alum Sarah Cain invites visitors into her paintings

Wikipedia as resistance: This UC Berkeley class makes queer contributions visible - Audio

Gifts for every reader: New books by UC Berkeley authors

Shadow puppets and revenge: Manual Cinema’s new take on ‘Macbeth’

For 50 years, she recorded her Pomo language. Her voice is helping this student reclaim his culture. - Audio

23 boxes and a suitcase full of tapes: How a linguist’s lifelong work is shaping Indigenous language today

Berkeley Voices season 2: Two sides of a story - Audio

The secret lives of violins — and the Berkeley scholar who uncovers them

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