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Students standing next to a screen make their pitch for ReMove to judges at the Berkeley Civic Innovation challenge.

Campus & community

Wildfire safety to move-out waste: UC Berkeley students pitch fixes for top city problems

Students had one week to team up, interview residents and leaders, dream up ideas and make their final pitches at the first-ever Berkeley Civic Innovation Challenge.

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Campus & community

For 20 years, this UC Berkeley program has helped students who’ve been in foster care succeed

Six images, arranged with three on top and three on the bottom, that are a representation of the array of stories at UC Berkeley in 2025. The images include a photo of Gov. Gavin Newso interacting in a lab, two people looking at Indigenous language materials, a rocket on a launch pad, the book Startup Campus, a person holding a baby, and Nobel Laureate Omar Yaghi.

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Nobel wins, psychedelic lilies and a mission to Mars: UC Berkeley’s top stories of 2025

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UC Berkeley named top public school in the country by ‘U.S. News’

Two people wearing blue lab coats and masks sqeeze a tube at a lab bench into a vial.

No. 1 again: UC Berkeley generates more startups and founders than any other university

Students walk under Sather Gate on UC Berkeley's campus.

UC Berkeley extends over 700 additional admission offers to first-year students for fall 2025

rendering of a glass-fronted, seven-story building with tree-lined streets and people walking around

CRISPR researchers and startup entrepreneurs will share new building in UC Berkeley’s Innovation Zone

People visit the Reading Room in The Bancroft Library, with shelves of books lining the halls.

UC Berkeley outlines plans to account for The Bancroft Library’s namesake

In this black and white photo, UC President Robert Gordon Sproul laughs with Harold Ellis, who opened the UC's first news bureau in 1925. They are both wearing suits and wire-rimmed glasses.

UC Berkeley’s central news office marks 100 years of telling the university’s story

Student walk in front of Doe Library, with the campanile visible in the background.

UC Berkeley ranked nation’s top public university by U.S. News

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

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

Protestors gather on Sproul Plaza for a rally against Trump administration attacks on higher education.

Hundreds rally on Sproul Plaza to protest attacks on higher education

Two people sit on chairs made from tree trunks and smile at the camera. Behind them is a long wooden table that holds basketry and serving utensils.

Initiative aims to create a ‘rightful presence’ for the Ohlone community at UC Berkeley

A gold-tinted composite photo showing four people awarded scholarships from the Robinson International Scholars Program. Three of the people look toward the camera, while one, with her hands on her hips, looks proudly to the side

After life as refugees, these UC Berkeley students strive to tackle global problems

Two people wearing UC Berkeley scoop dirt with golden shovels.

New Engineering Center to be named after UC Berkeley alumni Michael and Janelle Grimes

a trainer wearing dark clothing kneels and directs a student who is doing a squat with dumbbells

When student stress levels are high, this UC Berkeley program turns to exercise as medicine

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