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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

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’

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

Campus & community

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

Chancellor Lyons: Here’s to a great commencement

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

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

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

Group portrait featuring (left to right): Julia Schaletzky, Smriti Mehta and Will Fithian, against the carved-stone backdrop of an elegant old campus building.

With right and left deeply divided, emerging UC Berkeley groups embrace the ‘vital center’

James B. Milliken

James B. Milliken named 22nd president of the University of California

Workers building a stand and case to hold a large Diego Rivera mural at Doe Library.

Stunning Diego Rivera mural starts a new chapter at UC Berkeley’s Doe Library

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.

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

A group of ten people celebrate in front of the entrance to a new building.

UC Berkeley celebrates opening of Grimes Engineering Center

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.

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.

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

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