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This new BAMPFA exhibit explores the art and history of African American quilts

"Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California" chronicles quilt making's role in the Second Great Migration.

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Arts & culture

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

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Events at Berkeley

Matrix Podcast: 150 years of border control

Two people wearing caps and gowns stand together and smile amidst a crowd of other graduates.

Campus & community

Perplexity co-founder and Berkeley alum urges graduates to ‘think about humanity’

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.’

Two students hug each other wearing their regalia in the bleachers at UC Berkeley's 2025 campuswide commencement on May 17.

At UC Berkeley’s campuswide commencement, grads were grateful for their personal growth — and four Big Game wins in a row

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

Priyanka D’Souza, pictured sitting on one of the wheeled stools installed as part of her MFA exhibition, before various works created for the exhibition mounted on a shelf viewable at seated height.

This Berkeley MFA exhibition probes how museums and institutions exclude disabled bodies

People standing in front of a room deliver a closing pitch about the platform SimpleGov.

In uncertain times, these UC Berkeley students are using tech to innovate democratic processes

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Federal appeals court sends CRISPR-Cas9 patent case back to patent office for reconsideration

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

Ryan and Melissa Mattson in graduation apparel

How two graduating siblings found their ‘second act’ at UC Berkeley

Lewis Hamilton in a white suit, Angela Bassett in a blue suit wearing a black velvet hat, Zendaya in a white suit and matching wide-brimmed hat, Gigi Hadid in a gold dress, and Ayo Edebiri in a white and coral dress, all on a blue carpet

Did the Met Gala’s attendees live up to its Black dandy-inspired theme? UC Berkeley experts discuss

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Planetary scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton to head Space Sciences Laboratory

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