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The four 2025 UC Berkeley University Medal finalists, in a photo illustration with each student headshot in a gold oval against Berkeley-blue background.

Awards

In turbulent times, 2025 University Medal finalists excelled through idealism, hard work

Students in the UC Berkeley Class of 2025 worked against a backdrop of historic social and political instability. The University Medal finalists met challenges head-on, and their early accomplishments show the commitment and creative spirit of their class.

Ryan and Melissa Mattson in graduation apparel

Campus & community

How two graduating siblings found their ‘second act’ at UC Berkeley

A group of ten people celebrate in front of the entrance to a new building.

Campus & community

UC Berkeley celebrates opening of Grimes Engineering Center

Creekside Center, the new home of the Disabled Students' Program, is a building that was designed in 1920 by campus architect John Galen Howard. When it was renovated, the two-story wood frame building retained its wood plank exterior walls and windows with tiny square panes.

Campus news

Introducing Creekside Center, a new home for UC Berkeley’s Disabled Students’ Program

Ashmita Kumar holds a prize from startup competition at UC Berkeley.

With AI and an iPhone, UC Berkeley student’s startup aims to detect stroke signs and save lives

Jake Merioles, a student painter, stands with his back to the camera at an easel in Memorial Glade, working on a painting of University Library. The Campanile is sticking up over the top of the library and the sky is blue with small white clouds. Merioles is wearing a black shirt.

Without his Friday painting sessions, Jake Merioles says, ‘I wouldn’t be the person I am today.’

protesters in a crowd with signs reading Science Saves Lives, Don't Silence Science and Fascism Hates Science

Researchers and students gather in Sproul Plaza to ‘Stand up for Science’

a brown furry animal with black eyes and a pointy snout photographed on the ground amid green and yellow plants

This shy California shrew avoided the camera and the limelight — until now

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

After the Palisades Fire, student Max Rodman looks at the rubble that once was his family home. His knee is wrapped because he was recovering from surgery.

After the LA wildfires, stories emerge at UC Berkeley of great loss, support and strength

A main entrance to xučyun ruwway graduate student housing has the Chochenyo name spelled just above the front door. The metal lettering is painted yellow.

Ceremony celebrates xučyun ruwway, UC Berkeley’s newest housing for graduate students

Two musicians in the UC Nu Jazz Collective play guitar onstage in the emsemble at a performance at Wu Hall, a new venue in Morrison Hall. The students are seated with music stands in front of them and their amplified guitars in their grasp.

Musical gifts: New campus performance hall, an unprecedented surge in music majors

A student walks through snow in a forest in the Sierra dragging a cut Christmas tree that is destined for a truck filled with other cut trees for the Forestry Club's annual Christmas tree sale on campus.

Forest fresh: Cal Forestry Club’s tree sale starts Sunday

Yesenia Ochoa

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

two women, left and center, listen to a third woman at right who is talking and gesturing

Bridging divides: from anger and mistrust to belonging — and hope

A person wearing a pink shirt stands at a podium in front of an audience. Next to them is a projected image that reads

UC Berkeley to launch compute hub with California Education Learning Lab

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