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Arts & culture

‘Biographers heaven’: Ron Chernow spotlights Mark Twain Papers & Project amid funding crisis

The author hailed the UC Berkeley Library multimedia project, which has an uncertain future after the termination of funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as "one of the great scholarly achievements of our time."

Maria Paz Gutierrez standing next to a structure that looks like corrugated cardboard.

Milestones

UC Berkeley professor showcases flood-resilient architecture at international exhibition

Carol Christ and Jeff MacKie-Mason walk down a hall side by side

Arts & culture

Carol Christ, UC Berkeley chancellor emerita, appointed Cal Performances board of trustees co-chair

An overhead view of UC Berkeley's Memorial Statdium

Campus & community

A message about UC Berkeley’s response to changes in intercollegiate athletics

Michael Bolden selected to be next dean of UC Berkeley Journalism

uc berkeley students walk by the music department's Morrison Hall on campus

‘Crucial for the human spirit’: Why the music major is booming at Berkeley

A man gives a speech while standing at a podium.

George Leitmann, academic leader and decorated WWII veteran, dies at 99

woman plants spring transplants at a small-scale farm in Pottstown, Pennsylvania

Berkeley Talks: Feeding the world without ‘eating the earth’

black-and-white photograph of women in traditional dress from East Asia walk across a bridge toward Angel Island in the early 1900s

Matrix Podcast: 150 years of border control

Xavier Becerra and UC Berkeley Public Health Dean Michael C. Lu wearing graduation apparel

Xavier Becerra to UC Berkeley grads: With public health under attack, ‘It is game time.’

Daniel Handler and Chanan Tigay talk on stage at an event for the Magnes' inaugural Jewish Arts & Bookfest

Berkeley Talks: Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) on reading the authors you want to write like

Chancellor Lyons: Here’s to a great commencement

David Wilson (left), dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy, talks at a public discussion event with Janet Napolitano, former U.S. secretary of homeland security and current faculty director of the UC Berkeley Center for Security in Politics.

Napolitano: U.S. deportation push raises “profound” constitutional issues

Dr. Malcolm Potts, gutsy global changemaker for reproductive health and women’s rights, dies at 90

Why Berkeley’s Center for Jewish Studies teaches three Jewish languages

An image of the Pulitzer Prize medal shows the front and the back. The medal is gold, with the image of Ben Franklin on one side and on the back is someone operating a printing press.

Six UC Berkeley alumni named 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners

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