Posts by Gretchen Kell

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

Campus & community

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

Chancellor Rich Lyons says civil discourse and bridging political and cultural divides will be a focus this new academic year.

A view of Anchor House, a new building created just for transfer students, as seen from Oxford Street, across from the West Crescent lawn.

Campus news

Introducing UC Berkeley’s Anchor House, a remarkable gift built especially for transfer students

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

Campus news

Hard knocks for Nox, UC Berkeley’s youngest peregrine falcon

In late June 2024, people watch recreated footraces at Berkeley's archaeological excavation site in Ancient Nemea, Greece, while sitting on the slopes of the stadium using rugs and blankets.

Research

As the Olympics begin, Berkeley marks 50 years of excavating the Games’ origins in Greece

Ken LIght, a Berkeley professor and documentary photojournalist, stands on the red carpeting of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee holding a camera and wearing a cap and vest.

Camera in hand, Berkeley professor chronicles this week’s Republican National Convention

An artist's rendering of what UC Berkeley's campus will look like in the future according to the campus master plan

Unprecedented campus construction marked Carol Christ’s chancellorship

Jeff Davis, the retiring university carillonist, sits on the bench of the grand carillon on the observation deck of the Campanile. His body is turned toward the camera and he's wearing eye glasses, a beard, a short-sleeved plaid shirt and a smile.

Retiring University Carillonist Jeff Davis reflects on ‘the coolest job in the world’

Sol, one of the two young female falcons, flies for the first time on Tuesday, June 4, past the observation deck of the Campanile.

And they’re off! UC Berkeley’s young falcons are flying

Annie (left) feeds Eclipse, Aurora (back left) and Sol touch beaks, and Knox, fed, is in the front.

Meet the falcons: Aurora, Eclipse, Nox and Sol

Annie and Archie, Berkeley's falcon parents, feed their four fluffy white chicks in their gravel nest box on the Campanile.

Ready, set, vote! Here are your choices to name Berkeley’s new falcon quadruplets.

The four falcon chicks of 2024 sit together in their nest box after receiving their ID bands. They are fluffy, white and gangly-looking.

UC Berkeley’s four new falcon chicks need names. A contest starts today.

Four peregrine chicks

UC Berkeley’s Annie the falcon sets a record: All of her eggs hatch on the Campanile

An aerial view of the new UC Berkeley graduate student apartment complex in Albany that is being readied for fall 2024. Work equipment including trucks, caterpillars, tarp, cars and earth being dug up dot the property. Right next to the complex is a Sprouts grocery store and parking lot, other shops and the University Village housing community, for students with families.

New UC Berkeley housing complex to be called xučyun ruwway, honoring Ohlone people

Four speckled, rust-colored eggs sit atop the UC Berkeley falcons' gravel nest atop the Campanile. They are very close together, with two of the eggs touching.

UC Berkeley falcons Annie and Archie welcome four eggs to their nest

A view of San Francisco Bay from the Berkeley hills. The top of the Campanile is front and center, with shimmering water and the Golden Gate Bridge beyond. The entire photo is cast in a golden light.

It’s golden: UC Berkeley’s Light the Way campaign raises $7.37 billion

Tedde Simon, the new tribal liaison for UC Berkeley, wears a vertically-striped dress and turquoise jewelry and smiles while standing next to a pillar

Meet Tedde Simon, UC Berkeley’s new — and first — tribal liaison