Posts by Cathy Cockrell

student giving a haircut

Campus & community

Suitcase Clinic: services for the homeless, life lessons for volunteers

Berkeley students’ Suitcase Clinic has provided homeless people near campus with free services — from haircuts and foot washing to legal assistance and basic healthcare — for more than a quarter-century.

clasped hands

Campus & community

Sad but resolute, Berkeley stands with Orlando

3 students

Awards

Dozens honored for public service, in spirited ceremony

Clarence Ford and Rodrigo

Campus & community

Banning the box, opening a door for job seekers with records

David Johnson

Converting lawns to low-water beds, as drought persists

Jeff MacKie-Mason

For university librarian, 11 million volumes just the beginning

Chris Bell and Sal Vaca

Campus, civic leaders toast town-gown ties and training efforts

Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Pope Francis

Scheper-Hughes on her church’s sins (and Spotlight’s)

graduating football player with 10-month old son

Bittersweet farewell for Berkeley’s December grads

Ethan Elkind

As nations talk, California shows how states and cities can cut emissions

Ian Bolliger

Grad student, ‘excited and curious,’ heads for climate summit

hand holding toilet mug

Celebrating World Toilet Day, reinventing sanitation

cartoon of U.S. Cabinet in Chinese queues

Whiskers and locks: reading U.S. history through hair

Steve Tollefson

Reading Steve Tollefson, Berkeley ‘writer at work’

1986 interns on Capitol steps

Cal in the Capital marks half century of service in D.C.

Harry Williams with students

Tribal elder brings water history to life for students

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