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Taking a page from “American Idol,” 12 Berkeley singers took the mic on the Zellerbach stage on a recent Friday to compete for the title of Berkeley’s Star 2014.
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Slideshow: Campus goes big for Big Give
November 17, 2014: This Thursday, Nov. 20, marks the Big Give, UC Berkeley’s first 24-hour online fundraising drive geared to support students, faculty and research. Check out this slideshow of Berkeley people who are making a big deal out of Big Give and visit BigGive.berkeley.edu to join them.
Going out, doing good: Berkeley Project Day 2014 in photos
November 14, 2014: Berkeley Project Day 2014 sent more than 1,400 UC Berkeley students out into the community to get things done: rehabbing homes for people in need, cleaning up streets and parks, sprucing up childcare centers, just to name a few. The annual community-service day is entirely student-run.
Love and loss drive campus ‘Day of the Dead’ art show
October 31, 2014: Jason Thomason claims no Mexican heritage. But since several of his friends died young from hard living, he has found solace in the Day of the Dead, which comes on the heels of Halloween. The art practice student has curated a Dia de los Muertos exhibit for his senior class project in Kroeber Hall.
Cal Dining goes local for Food Day
October 28, 2014: Cal Dining celebrated Food Day 2014 (Friday, Oct. 24) by serving dinners made from locally grown and sustainably produced foods, from broccoli and rutabagas to persimmons and lemon mousse cake. A slideshow shows the action.
At Student Learning Center ‘Friday Jam,’ creative energy abounds
October 21, 2014: More than 200 attended the Oct. 17 launch of “SLC Friday Jam,” featuring a multicultural array of spoken-word, rock and dance performances.
Photo slideshow: Student inventors do battle at Cal Hacks
October 7, 2014: More than 1,000 inventive students from across the country inhabited California Memorial Stadium this weekend as they sought glory, prize money and the sheer thrill of solving problems together in a 36-hour tech event, Cal Hacks.
#FSM50, in words, videos and photos
October 3, 2014: With rallies, lectures, classes, conversations, photos, videos and — always — with passion, UC Berkeley is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement, whose legacy reverberates on campus and throughout the world. Catch up on this week’s events on the NewsCenter’s #FSM50 page.
Where T-shirt culture meets the black protest tradition
September 8, 2014: For her dissertation research on T-shirts and the black-protest tradition, doctoral candidate Kimberly McNair has been known to visit street fairs and flea markets — to find new Ts and meet their vendors — as well as to read scholarly theory on performance, media and “remix” practices.
Coming this fall: FSM, early America, vaudeville, sounds of the human condition
September 2, 2014: World politics, world-class artistry, Homecoming weekend — just some of what’s happening at Berkeley this fall. The semester brings the Australian Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Willem Dafoe, weekly discussions on the Middle East. And did we mention the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement?
A splendid esplanade: major overhaul for Campanile’s grounds
September 2, 2014: The Campanile’s 100th birthday is in 2015, and its historic esplanade – the terraces, trees, lawns and staircases surrounding the tower – got a summer spiff-up for the celebration.
Construction abuzz at Lower Sproul student hub
August 29, 2014: A new hub for student life at UC Berkeley is emerging. Construction progressed rapidly this summer on the Lower Sproul redevelopment project. The NewsCenter went along on a hardhat tour of the site, poked around in the concrete and rebar skeletons of new spaces under construction and brought back photos.
Students arrive for move-in as fall semester kicks off
August 27, 2014: Chancellor Dirks and campus leaders were on hand to greet students and their families as they moved into campus housing over the weekend. More than 6,000 students settled into residence halls. Classes beginning on Thursday, Aug. 28.
‘Getting-by girls’ straddle gap between academic winners and losers
August 16, 2014: Everyone notices the academic superstars and failures, but what about the tens of millions of American teens straddling these two extremes? A new UC Berkeley study has spotlighted a high school subculture that has made an art of slacking, even with ample educational resources, and may be destined to perpetuate the nation’s struggling lower-middle class.
What was your high school clique? Berkeley students share
August 16, 2014: Jocks, STEM nerds, Mean Girls, band, debate team, (Harry) Potter heads, thespians, gangsta wannabes, Goths, stoners, fashionistas, goodie two-shoes, eco-warriors. You name it, there’s a high school clique dedicated to it. But what happens to these tribal affiliations when you go to college? We asked a diverse group of UC Berkeley students about which high school clique they belonged to, and where they fit in at UC Berkeley. Here’s what they told us:
Lazy days of summer? Not at Berkeley
July 16, 2014: Summer at UC Berkeley is in full swing, with enrollment once again topping 16,000, including 900 students who are studying abroad in such countries as the Chile, Costa Rica, Spain, France, Ireland, Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
Life stories of early African American faculty offer window onto history
June 3, 2014: Eighteen African American faculty and senior administrators, hired before the advent of affirmative-action policies in the 1970s, recount their life stories — and transformative events at Berkeley — in a recently completed oral-history series. “The Originals,” an exhibit at the Library, showcases the project and the contributions of these pioneers.
UC Berkeley community mourns victims of UC Santa Barbara tragedy
May 29, 2014: More than 500 students and community members gathered on Memorial Glade Wednesday night to listen to tearful remembrances of the UC Santa Barbara students injured and killed last Friday.
MasterCard Foundation program graduates first six scholars
May 20, 2014: The campus held a festive event May 16 to honor six students from Sub-Saharan Africa earning master’s degrees this month — the first graduating cohort from UC Berkeley’s partnership with The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program.
An online archive sheds light on WWII Japanese-American internment
May 19, 2014: The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study Digital Archive sheds light on the mass internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. The newly digitized Bancroft collection consists of diaries and other materials provided by Nisei social-science students held in a number of internment sites.
Commencement throng celebrates with Class of 2014
May 19, 2014: More than 21,000 crowded the stands of California Memorial Stadium for Saturday’s campuswide commencement. Highlights included a keynote address by U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi and a rousing rap on the senior experience by student Kaila Love. (See additional commencement features here.)
Student ‘hackers’ design new ways to research the Free Speech Movement
April 18, 2014: Students were invited recently to develop a compelling user interface to the Bancroft Library’s FSM Digital Archive, and shared their results 12 days later before a panel of judges. It’s hoped that HackFSM will spur future efforts to make online collections more accessible and useful to scholars and the public.
American Cultures to mark its 25th with week of events
April 14, 2014: The American Cultures breadth requirement, established in 1989, required all Berkeley undergrads to pass at least one course involving a comparative study of race, ethnicity and culture in the U.S. A series of events April 21-25 will re-examine AC’s origins and legacy and mark the 25th anniversary of a program that made waves.
Open house visitors share their Cal Day experiences
April 14, 2014: During and after Cal Day, scores and students and campus visitors posted photos of the fun on social media. To remember the campus’s jumbo open house, or check out what you missed on Saturday, see the #sharecalday website.
Comprehensive photo gift funds premiere of Vivian Maier photos
March 18, 2014: An inaugural exhibit of Chicago street photos by a newly discovered photographer celebrates a comprehensive gift to propel photojournalism studies at the Graduate School of Journalism and across campus..
As students embrace new ways to learn, library learns to adapt
March 17, 2014: At Moffitt Undergraduate Library’s new information gateway and reading lounge, students have access to 2,000 new books, a top-notch computing experience, free digital scanning, reduced-price printing and — starting this semester — a laptop and digital-tablet check-out service.
New campus gateway emerging at Memorial Stadium
March 17, 2014: An innovative plan is underway to turn California Memorial Stadium into a multi-use building for academic and athletic activities and a scenic gateway for the Berkeley campus.
Graduate researchers bring their passion to Sacramento
March 14, 2014: Two Berkeley graduate students were among more than 20 from around the state who shared their research interests with California lawmakers at UC’s Graduate Research and Education Advocacy Day, on March 12. President Janet Napolitano and Nobel Laureate Randy Schekman amplified the message.
Art in Science: A Berkeley perspective
February 26, 2014: The Feb. 27-28 exhibit, “Art-in-Science: The intersection of image and research,” drew record crowds to see sculpture, painting, photography, origami, multi-media and digital art by scientists and artists — now or formerly at UC Berkeley — whose works portray the artistic face of science. The exhibit was sponsored by Science@Cal and the EBI.
Renaissance Gala honors African American excellence, activism
February 24, 2014: More than 200 turned out for Saturday’s second annual Renaissance Gala, a benefit by and for the Department of African American Studies.“It means something for an African American to be accepted” at Berkeley, said talk-show host Tavis Smiley, one of the night’s special honorees.
