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From ‘too much’ to just right: How one student found a home at Berkeley

Victoria Hernandez Padilla spent her childhood in Sonoma being told she was too loud, too curious. At Berkeley, she discovered those qualities were actually her greatest strengths.

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Two UC Berkeley professors elected to the National Academy of Inventors

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Tosh Lupoi named as Cal’s 35th head football coach

(left) Then: Leyna Quinn-Davidson as a child; (right) Now: Lenya Quinn-Davidson on a private property near Yosemite National Park

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Then / Now / Next: Ecologist Lenya Quinn-Davidson is rethinking California’s relationship with fire

How the Terner Center for Housing Innovation shaped California’s decade of housing reform

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23 boxes and a suitcase full of tapes: How a linguist’s lifelong work is shaping Indigenous language today

Elisabeth “Betty” Sadoulet lectures a class.

In memoriam of Agricultural & Resources Economics Professor Elisabeth Sadoulet

Side by side portrait of John Cho with a photo of Cho in 1995 on the left and a photo of Cho in 2025 on the right

Then / Now / Next: Actor John Cho on finding independence and identity at UC Berkeley

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Reporting started at UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program leads to two new police reform laws

Catherine Lhamon does an interview in a podcast studio

Voices Carry: Renowned public service lawyer on protecting democracy

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National Academy of Medicine adds two from UC Berkeley to its ranks

2025 Nobel Prize awardees Omar Yaghi (left) and John Clarke

University of California sets world record for Nobel Prizes in a single year

In memoriam of Sociology Professor Nancy Chodorow, a foundational feminist scholar

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UC Berkeley rated No. 1 public university in North America by Times Higher Education

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Vision scientist Teresa Puthussery receives MacArthur ‘genius’ award

UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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