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      Sanjay Kumar(top left), Spencer Klein, Margaret Conkey, Robert Ritchie (bottom left) and Peidong Yang are the five new Berkeley scholars elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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      Sanjay Kumar(top left), Spencer Klein, Margaret Conkey, Robert Ritchie (bottom left) and Peidong Yang are the five new Berkeley scholars elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Andrew Marantz on the hijacking of the...

November 1, 2019
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October 15, 2019
The student-sponsored Free Speech Week event in September 2017 drew hundreds of demonstrators to the campus. (UC Berkeley photo by Khaled Sayed)

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October 15, 2019
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September 9, 2019
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February 22, 2019
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February 21, 2019
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December 3, 2018
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October 26, 2018

A friendly chat between rivals: Robert Reich...

March 21, 2018
UC Berkeley sophomore Manu Meel (middle right) speaks during a forum on Free Speech at the BAMPFA. The other panelists included, from left: Ira Glasser, the former head of the ACLU; Charlene Stern, director of "Near Normal Man;" Ben Stern, an activist, educator and Holocaust survivor; moderator Edward Wasserman, dean of Berkeley's journalism school; Meel; Luis Tenorio, a sociology Ph.D candidate and director of Queer and Trans Advocacy Project at UC Berkeley; and Simone Dill, a senior film and media studies major and president of the Cal Black Student Union. (UC Berkeley photo by Jeremy Snowden)

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January 29, 2018
Under the revised Major Events policy, event organizers who want to invite guests who could draw large crowds — like Senator Bernie Sanders, who visited UC Berkeley in June 2016 — will need to give campus six weeks notice instead of eight. (UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small)

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January 18, 2018
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December 13, 2017
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November 14, 2017
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November 9, 2017
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November 2, 2017

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