Posts by Anne Brice

Frank Cahill smiles and holds up his hands as colorful confetti is all around him, showing the fun, playful spirit of the spelling bee and the people who run it

People

The world’s top spelling bee is coming up. This Berkeley Ph.D. student built the word list.

Comparative literature student Frank Cahill competed in the Scripps National Spelling Bee as an eighth grader. This year, on May 28 and 29, he’ll be on the other side of the stage.

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

Arts & culture

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

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.

Arts & culture

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

Research

Berkeley Voices: A stroke left her ‘locked in.’ With the help of AI, she heard her voice again.

the Ratliff family of two parents and three adult children walk in the sun

Ahead of ‘The White Lotus’ finale, Berkeley professor unpacks show’s Freudian themes and fantasies

an illustration of an eye with a pinwheel of four alternating colors surrounding it, suggesting that the eye is seeing those colors

Do vowels have colors? According to some with synesthesia, yes.

A wall in an art exhibition of replicas of many famous artworks, like van Gogh's Sunflowers and da Vinci's Mona Lisa

Berkeley Voices: Fakes, replicas and forgeries: What counts as art?

Headshots of Helen Bateup, Dan Garcia, Kranthi Mandadapu, Mark Sandberg and Sarah Stanley

‘Tremendously effective teachers’: Five UC Berkeley instructors receive Distinguished Teaching Award

Fiona McFarlane juxtaposed next to the cover of her book Highway 13

In 12 short stories, ‘Highway Thirteen’ traces the ripple effects of one man’s violence

A performance on stage of the chamber opera The Great Yes, The Great No. There is a projected image of a woman on a backdrop with three performers with spotlights on them in three corners of the stage.

William Kentridge’s ‘The Great Yes, The Great No’ is a voyage of chaos and creativity

Sarah Gold McBride and Christine Palmer face one another at a desk, smiling at each other, conveying their close friendship

Berkeley Voices: From Victorian-era letters to Swiftie bracelets, an evolution of American friendship

Two actors, who play Jinzo and Catherine in the opera Both Eyes Open, kneel together, holding hands

For 50 years, he’s written about the Japanese American internment. Now, he’s turning to opera.

line drawing of a woman with eerie-looking ghosts coming out the back of her partially missing head

Berkeley Voices: We learn what to fear. Can we unlearn it?

A helicopter in the center frame drops water on a fire as yellowish smoke clouds the sky.

Health, housing and the path ahead: UC Berkeley researchers on the Los Angeles fires

Jack Tseng stands on the second floor of the Valley Life Sciences Building looking down on a replica of a T. rex

Berkeley Voices: Think you know what dinosaurs were like? Think again.

about a dozen dancers in the nutcracker suite perform on stage. six are wearing rat masks and dancing around a group of dancers who look frightened.

The Sugar Rum Fairy? A freewheeling, jazzy reimagination of ‘The Nutcracker’

View all