back-to-school 2021

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Campus & community

How one new student connected his community with local farmers

After COVID-19 forced his local farmers market to temporarily close, Ojus Garg started the online marketplace, The Rowdy Rancher

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Campus & community

New student Elizabeth Cardenas: I want to give back, helping families in need

First-year student Sariel Sandoval, who is Native American, poses for a portrait on campus wearing a blue and gold Berkeley T-shirt and large, stylish eyeglasses.

Campus news

New student from rural Montana seeks degree ‘to help my people, my tribe’

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Arts & culture

Off the screen and back in person: Cal Performances presents its new season

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New student Artemio Reyes Orta: ‘Find a light in the people around you’

Annika on the platform about the compete at the Olympic trials

New student Annika McEnroe: ‘Swimming is a safe space for me’

The five new members of Berkeley's Climate Equity and Environmental Justice cluster stand together and look at the camera.

New faculty, hired in clusters, to address global issues, equity, justice

Students in masks sit in a lecture hall at Berkeley Law during the first week of fall 2021 classes

A glimpse of fall 2021 at UC Berkeley: Masked, eager, back on campus

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BAMPFA’s ‘New Time’ explores the nature of feminist art today

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UC Berkeley Library offers (free!) digital course materials

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

‘Undocumented Americans’ author: ‘Create the art you see in yourself’

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New student Liliana Rojas: ‘We are all made of the same components’

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Berkeley Law’s in-person classes return: ‘Look at you! Your eyes are real!’

Students walk through a light display shining on the trees and pavement next to the Campanile during Golden Bear Orientation's Paint the Night event. The word Cal in white lights appears on the sidewalk and the trees are shades of bright blue.

Glimpse this year’s Golden Bear Orientation — no longer 100% virtual

Chancellor Christ, wearing a blue jacket and a face mask, waves at the camera on her way into California Hall

Chancellor Christ to new students: We will work hard to help you thrive

Chaka Tellem laughs as he talks to a friend

Student president: At Berkeley, ‘you can live your ancestor’s wildest dreams’

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