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Forging a new path: Veteran Katie Suwalkowski on resilience, community, and mental health

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Campus & community

This company’s mission is to make the world accessible to Deaf people. It all started at Berkeley’s Big Ideas Contest

Yesenia Ochoa

Campus & community

‘I’m just one of millions of migrant students working hard to achieve their goals’

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People

A Q&A with the new dean of biological sciences, Richard Harland

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Meet Eric Meyer, the new dean of Berkeley’s I School

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UC Berkeley course explores gun violence as a public health issue

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Student aims to improve AI for underserved languages and communities

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Four new faculty hires are a quantum leap for experimental physics

Coach Mo walks off the field, away from student-athlete Mykolas Alekna, with a huge grin on his face

Behind Cal’s Olympic throwers, a fiercely dedicated coach

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Jeff MacKie-Mason has seen the future of libraries

William Carter wears headphones and listens as a computer program reads text from transcribed slave ship logs, the original of which is displayed on a computer screen.

With newly digitized slave ship logs, Berkeley Ph.D. student examines race, power — and literacy

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’

Off-script at Berkeley: How one graduate made a home on campus apart from her twin

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Tutoring at San Quentin helped UC Berkeley’s top senior define his future

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As graduation nears, student creates a ‘time capsule’ of her Berkeley experience

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I’m a Berkeleyan: BAMPFA Senior Curator Anthony Graham asks, Why now? And why here?

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