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A crowd of some 3,900 in black caps and gowns, and 21,000 fanatically proud fans in the stands above, turned out at California Memorial Stadium for Saturday’s Commencement Convocation 2013. Apple co-founder and Berkeley alum Steve Wozniak keynoted the event, which was held in the sports venue for the first time in more than 40 years.
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Aspiring oral surgeon promotes “Super Star Smiles” for children
April 16, 2012: UC Berkeley integrative biology major Hường Trần says she is “paying it forward” with a program taking dental-health education into classrooms for needy children.
CED’s Teresea Caldeira named a Guggenheim Fellow
April 12, 2012: City and regional-planning professor Teresa Caldeira is among 181 new Guggenheim Fellows, in the U.S. and Canada, announced April 12. An anthropologist by training, her Guggenheim project analyzes public practices — including graffiti, pixação (tagging), rap and skateboarding — that are transforming the city of São Paulo, Brazil and articulate its profound social inequalities.
Students take spring break for public service
April 10, 2012: While many students kicked back or headed to the beach for spring break, more than 130 from UC Berkeley fanned out into communities near and far. These civic-minded students, working through the Alternative Breaks program, lent their skills to post-Katrina renewal in New Orleans and environmental justice in Oakland, among other projects.
One student’s Alternative Break in New Orleans
April 10, 2012: After a week helping rebuild New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward, UC Berkeley student Alicia Hernandez writes that she and her group found common cause with the residents’ fight for equality and justice and “we resolved that in some way, their struggles are bound up with ours.”
Never-before-released Toklas oral history highlights exhibit of Bancroft Library’s LGBT collections
March 29, 2012: A Bancroft Library exhibit opening April 4 provides a salon-like setting for conversations about the artistic contributions of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual artists through the years.
Dignitaries dedicate campus’s renovated Matsui Center
March 14, 2012: Students, faculty and state dignitaries lauded the Robert T. Matsui Center’s work promoting public service, policy research and education during a special event highlighting recent renovations.
Chancellor Birgeneau announces he will step down at year’s end
March 13, 2012: Chancellor Birgeneau will step down from his post on Dec. 31, 2012, he announced Tuesday in a letter to the campus community. UC President Yudof praised him as “a passionate, dedicated and effective steward of the world’s greatest public university.”
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin to be special IGS Salon guest
March 12, 2012: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin will offer his insights about politics in Washington at the April 12 IGS Salon.
A new Lower Sproul, long a dream, is taking shape
January 30, 2012: The long-desired makeover of Lower Sproul Plaza is finally taking shape, and it’s the students who made it happen. Plans and architects’ renderings show a light-filled area that’s open, inviting and bustling with activity 24/7 — the true and beating heart of student life on campus. Take a look at the new Lower Sproul.
California native-plant classic gets a 21st-century makeover
January 30, 2012: For California botany, The Jepson Manual is the authoritative reference book. Now the super-sized tome has been revised to incorporate a wealth of new knowledge about the state’s huge diversity of native plants. Scholars and staff at the Jepson Herbarium oversaw its 2nd edition, published by UC Press.
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life to open Jan. 22
January 19, 2012: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, the latest addition to the city’s burgeoning downtown arts and culture district, is opening to the public on Sunday, Jan. 22.
Berkeley 2011 — the year in pictures
December 22, 2011: Beyond the protests, the story — as always — is one of engagement, passion and perseverance in the face of challenges, whether institutional or personal.
At UC Botanical Garden, conifers from around the globe
December 13, 2011: Conifers have captured human imagination since ancient times, and winter is an opportune time to take in these magnificent trees. See a slide show of conifer species — from hemlock, fir and pine to cyprus and monkey puzzle — in the Bot Garden’s collection.
‘Everyday Dogs’ book depicts allure of man’s best friend
December 6, 2011: New book drawn from the Bancroft Library’s vast Pictorial Collection celebrates the powerful connections between people and pets.
Berkeley hosts manufacturing brainstorm
December 6, 2011: Leaders from academia, government and industry gathered at UC Berkeley Monday to discuss partnership strategies to re-establish the United States as a global leader in advanced manufacturing.
In architecture prof’s SoMa loft, a vibrant mix of life and work
December 2, 2011: Thai-born designer/artist Raveevarn Choksombatchai replaced a ramshackle San Francisco teardown with a prize-winning urban home. The New York Times’ Home & Garden section offers a brief profile and a multimedia tour.
Ira Michael Heyman, former UC Berkeley chancellor, dies at 81
November 21, 2011: Ira Michael Heyman, chancellor of UC Berkeley from 1980 to 1990 and professor emeritus at the School of Law and in the Department of City & Regional Planning, has died. He was 81.
Native bees often better pollinators than honey bee
November 17, 2011: Honey bees get most of the buzz, but some native bees are better at spreading pollen. Berkeley biologists Gordon Frankie and Claire Kremmen say that natives may hold the solution to world pollination problems that affect important crops.
In Sacramento, students take a stand for the future of UC
November 16, 2011: A busload of UC Berkeley students joined a UC rally in Sacramento on Wednesday, Nov. 16. Their message to legislators: “no” to continued funding cuts to public education, “yes” to structural changes needed to increase available state funds.
Rally remarks: ‘Don’t let public higher ed in California be destroyed,’ Breslauer urges
Campus memorials honor U.S. veterans
November 11, 2011: From a basketball shaped orb to a grand football stadium, memorials to U.S. veterans are scattered across the campus. A slide show recalls some of these tributes to members of the campus community who gave their lives for their country and to veterans nationwide.
Students building satellite that’s seen as future of space research
October 3, 2011: An international team of students from Berkeley, South Korea, Puerto Rico and London is building a tiny CubeSat spacecraft, designed to carry out research high above the Earth, in Berkeley’s Space Sciences Lab. CubeSats are the wave of the future for space science research and education.
Vets turn military fatigues into ‘Combat Paper’ artworks
September 29, 2011: Veterans transformed their military clothing into pulp, then paper, at a three-day workshop at Wurster Hall Sept. 21-23, led by the nonprofit group Combat Paper. Artworks made by vets — and others touched by war — will be exhibited at Worth Ryder Gallery in October.
BotGarden collection stirs memories for East Coast refugees
September 7, 2011: A new slide show from the UC Botanical garden highlights the garden’s Eastern North American collection, which offers nostalgic encounters with plants from the past for those who grew up on the East Coast.
Elaine Tennant named new Bancroft Library director
August 22, 2011: Elaine Tennant, a medieval and early modern specialist in the German and Scandinavian departments at the University of California, Berkeley, will become the James D. Hart Director of UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library starting in September.
Cal baseball loses to Virginia, 4-1, in College World Series
June 20, 2011: The California Golden Bears battled the No. 1-seeded team of the College World Series for six scoreless innings Sunday before falling to Virginia, 4-1.
Cal baseball is College World Series-bound
June 13, 2011: Just months after facing elimination as a sport at Cal, the Golden Bears are heading to the College World Series for the first time since 1992 after sweeping Dallas Baptist in the Santa Clara NCAA Super Regional.
Cal’s Juricova wins 2011 NCAA singles championship
May 31, 2011: Top-seeded and No. 1-ranked California women’s tennis junior Jana Juricova captured her second singles national title as the winner of the 2011 NCAA Division I Women’s Tennis Championships on May 30.
…And doctorate makes three
May 24, 2011: Mi-Suk Kang Dufour brought her six-and-a-half-month-old twins along when she received her Ph.D. in epidemiology at Saturday’s School of Public Health commencement ceremony.
Cal community walks the walk@work
May 19, 2011: UC Berkeley faculty and staff participated in the second annual UC Walks: Cal Walks@Work Day on Wednesday.
Spirit and innovation sound key notes of Commencement
May 16, 2011: “Pomp and Circumstance” roused the spirits against the biting cold as 2,500 graduating seniors strode into UC Berkeley’s Edwards Stadium Saturday to celebrate scholarly achievement at the 2011 Commencement Convocation.
