Posts by Gretchen Kell

A painting by Chiura Obata called Sunset, Watertower, March 10, 1943, was done in ink, color and mica on paper while he was in an internment camp. It shows a vibrant sunset behind a watertower in a desolate landscape. There are telephone lines in front of the tower and mountains in the far distance.

Arts & culture

Legacy of Chiura Obata, artist and former UC Berkeley professor, endures on campus

Obata, detained in a World War II internment camp for people of Japanese descent, urged turning to "Great Nature" to transcend differences and difficulty.

Kelly Sparks, Berkeley's new vice chancellor for finance and chief financial officer, wears a black blazer and floral blouse. Her arms are crossed in front of her and she has dark-rimmed eyeglasses and shoulder-length blonde hair.

Campus news

Kelly Sparks is campus’s new vice chancellor for finance, CFO

A cassowary egg sits on cotton batting in a box. A professor is holding the box while someone touches the egg's shell with their fingers to feel the shell's texture. The egg is a shade of green that helps to camouflage it.

Campus news

Got eggs? This UC Berkeley museum has tens of thousands.

Creekside Center, the new home of the Disabled Students' Program, is a building that was designed in 1920 by campus architect John Galen Howard. When it was renovated, the two-story wood frame building retained its wood plank exterior walls and windows with tiny square panes.

Campus news

Introducing Creekside Center, a new home for UC Berkeley’s Disabled Students’ Program

Annie the falcon returns to the nest having captured a bird for a meal. It's in her beak,

UC Berkeley falcons Annie and Archie are missing. Is avian flu the cause?

After the Palisades Fire, student Max Rodman looks at the rubble that once was his family home. His knee is wrapped because he was recovering from surgery.

After the LA wildfires, stories emerge at UC Berkeley of great loss, support and strength

A main entrance to xučyun ruwway graduate student housing has the Chochenyo name spelled just above the front door. The metal lettering is painted yellow.

Ceremony celebrates xučyun ruwway, UC Berkeley’s newest housing for graduate students

Two musicians in the UC Nu Jazz Collective play guitar onstage in the emsemble at a performance at Wu Hall, a new venue in Morrison Hall. The students are seated with music stands in front of them and their amplified guitars in their grasp.

Musical gifts: New campus performance hall, an unprecedented surge in music majors

A student walks through snow in a forest in the Sierra dragging a cut Christmas tree that is destined for a truck filled with other cut trees for the Forestry Club's annual Christmas tree sale on campus.

Forest fresh: Cal Forestry Club’s tree sale starts Sunday

Nox the falcon flies past the Campanile on June 5, 2024.

Nox the falcon died of pneumonia, says UC Davis veterinary pathology report

A photo of Nox the falcon, along with flowers and other tributes are being left under the Campanile by his admirers, who learned of the raptor's death today.

Falcon fans mourn and remember Nox, UC Berkeley’s youngest peregrine

Nox, the youngest and smallest of the four new falcons on campus, flies for the first time on Tuesday, June 4.

Nox the falcon has died, UC Davis wildlife specialists report

Nox the falcon flies toward a grove of eucalyptus trees in an East Bay shoreline park.

Nox the UC Berkeley falcon returns to UC Davis for hospitalization

Ups and downs continue for Nox, UC Berkeley’s youngest falcon

Nox the falcon takes flight out of his release box at an East Bay shoreline park as a member of the UC Davis California Raptor Center staff encourages him as she crouches by the box.

Nox the UC Berkeley falcon flies again, his broken wing mended

Chancellor Lyons, wearing a Berkeley Changemaker sweatshirt, talks with a campus RA, a resident assistant, during one of the fall move-in days. She is wearing a gold

New chancellor, new housing and robot ramen help kick off Berkeley’s 2024 fall semester

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