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Alex Saum Pascual

This Berkeley professor is exposing the hidden physical toll of our digital world

January 21, 2026

Law student Simone Browne sits behind the workings of the Carrillon at UC Berkeley, smiling.

For whom the bells toll: Student harmonizes love of music with law studies

January 6, 2026

Artist Sarah Cain stands in her latest immersive installation at BAMPFA.

Come in, sit, stay a while: How alum Sarah Cain invites visitors into her paintings

December 10, 2025

An AI illustration of a person's face is shown on a laptop screen, with stacks of books shown in the background, illustrating the connection between AI technology and the humanities

How Greek myths and Hollywood hits can help us understand AI today

December 1, 2025

paper cutout shadows projected on a wall of a little girl entering a forest all alone

Shadow puppets and revenge: Manual Cinema’s new take on ‘Macbeth’

November 13, 2025

Carla Shapreau holds up and discusses an antique violin from the Salz Collection to a group of middle school students on a field trip

The secret lives of violins — and the Berkeley scholar who uncovers them

October 17, 2025

exhibit of book

In new African lit exhibit, stories challenge and enchant

October 3, 2025

a woman looks at enlarged mounted photos on a gallery wall

Berkeley Talks: How art allows us to see everyday things anew - Audio

September 19, 2025

A collage of 15 book covers, including The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (on a burgundy background with a large face), A Gesture Life (black-and-white cover), Tripmaster Monkey by Maxine Hong Kingston (image of a bridge), Comfort Woman (a woman's face), Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (dragons in a style associate with Asian scroll art), Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee (on a blue background), east goes west (a globe on top of a cubist body, accompanies by Chinese characters), Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee (a back-and-white image of an Asian man's face with a childhood photo superimposed), Fifth Chinese Daughter (a fairytale draying on top of a red background), China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston (red text and a dragon), America is in the Heart, No-No Boy (a body, fists covering his face, behind two strands of crossed red barbed wire, Dictee (a black-and-white landscape image), Obasan by Joy Kogawa (an Asian girl with a bowl cut looking through the window), and Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn (a romaneqseque sculpture of a woman)

What counts as ‘Asian American literature,’ anyway?

September 16, 2025

Hannah Hoffman hands items to Lara Michels of Bancroft Library at St. Hieronymus Press

Iconic Berkeley printmaker’s archive comes to The Bancroft Library

September 8, 2025

Chris performs pirekua in Michoacán with a music group of five members

‘Always in motion’: New professor studies the flow of music across borders and cultures

August 22, 2025

A photo of Stephanie Syjuco's installation of

With a 63-by-30 foot art installation, Stephanie Syjuco explores education and activism at BAMPFA

August 15, 2025

UC Berkeley linguist Gašper Beguš peers through a row of books in a library

Berkeley linguist on time travel, talking to whales and the ‘sacred’ role of libraries

August 11, 2025

the uc berkeley symphony orchestra performs in Europe while david milnes conducts. it has some motion blur that gives the image a dream-like quality.

Encores and sold-out performances: The UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra tours Europe

August 8, 2025

a black-and-white photo of the San Francisco Bay with a sailboat in the distance and rocks on the sandy shore

Photographer Chrissy Huhn documents California’s evolving landscapes

July 29, 2025

A wall in an art exhibition of replicas of many famous artworks, like van Gogh's Sunflowers and da Vinci's Mona Lisa

Is a second ‘Mona Lisa’ still special? What about the thousandth?

July 29, 2025