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Joyous graduates, their friends and families filled Edwards Track Stadium in a swirl of blue and gold on Saturday, as they celebrated their graduation as UC Berkeley’s Class of 2012 and heard Google leader Eric Schmidt and Chancellor Robert Birgeneau send them on their way.
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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.
Engineers to help paraplegic student walk at graduation
May 12, 2011: Graduating senior Austin Whitney, in a wheelchair since a 2007 car accident paralyzed him from the waist down, plans to stand and walk at this year’s commencement ceremony. He will be wearing a robotic exoskeleton developed by UC Berkeley engineers to improve mobility for paraplegics.
TLC for Strawberry Creek: A native plant nursery opens its doors
May 6, 2011: Students celebrated the opening of the Strawberry Creek Native Plant Nursery, an incubator for East Bay flora, at a May 4 celebration. The new structure, paid for by students via The Green Initiative Fund, became a reality thanks to a vibrant movement to restore the Berkeley campus’s signature stream.
Art en plein air
May 5, 2011: Community art students gathered on Faculty Glade Wednesday to capture the season and a landmark buckeye tree, and to pay tribute to one of their artistic predecessors.
Backyard buzz: Bees in your garden
April 28, 2011: Student multimedia specialists from the J-School chronicle the Urban Bee Project, where researchers in a small Berkeley garden are working to make sure the world’s top pollinators keep busy.
Snapshots of Cal Day 2011
April 18, 2011: Great weather and big crowds marked the 2011 incarnation of UC Berkeley’s annual open house. A photo gallery captures the spirit of the day, which featured hundreds of exhibits and activities and a special tribute to the campus’s contributions to the Peace Corps as it turns 50.
Memorial Stadium construction moving into next phase
April 7, 2011: With the demolition of Memorial Stadium’s southern bowl reaching its completion, the jackhammers will soon be silenced as four new cranes begin laying the framework for the restoration of this historical landmark.
Vienna Philharmonic shares musical gifts with Cal students
February 28, 2011: The world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic spent three days in residency at Cal Performances, sharing their mastery of European classical music with Bay Area audiences and in special sessions with UC Berkeley student musicians.
Jim Crow signs as symbols of subjugation, trophies of triumph
February 15, 2011: In the mid 1960s, landmark laws brought an official end to the system of legal segregation known as Jim Crow. Professor Elizabeth Abel explores the “visual politics” of a system that shaped experience and perception throughout the American South (and beyond) for nearly a century — in a book praised by literary critic Henry Louis Gates as giving “new focus to our national dialogue on race.”
Sotomayor presides over packed moot court finals
February 4, 2011: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, saying the arguments gave her “an injection of hope,” presided over the finals of the James Patterson McBaine Honors Moot Court Competition before an enthusiastic crowd of more than 2,000 spectators packed inside Zellerbach Hall.
Festival draws budding scientists, engineers
February 1, 2011: Last week’s Cal Science & Engineering Festival drew many budding young scientists to experience science in action. (includes slide show)
Uncommon in every way: Engineer athletes
January 3, 2011: Of 800 Cal athletes in intercollegiate sports, only a handful — fewer than five at any one time — are working toward an engineering degree. The College of Engineering’s Innovations profiles three of the student athletes who have managed to handle this most rare of combinations successfully.
Third human species discovered in Siberian cave
December 22, 2010: The discovery of a finger bone in a Siberian cave has led researchers, including UC Berkeley’s Montgomery Slatkin, to conclude that there were three species of humans living 40,000 years ago. The new species, dubbed Denisovans, were neither modern humans nor Neanderthals, though they apparently bred with our ancestors.
‘Capturing the campus’
December 17, 2010: Call it a visual form of academic introspection. This semester, a new Freshman Seminar, “Photographing History in the Making,” used the campus itself as a source for, and subject of, scholarly inquiry.
Construction crew moves into Memorial Stadium
December 14, 2010: Benches and turf are being removed for reuse or recycling, and the stadium is off-limits to local fitness enthusiasts. Follow the project through the calbears.com photo gallery.
At the heart of campus, BicyCal opens its new ‘hub’
November 23, 2010: The student cooperative BicyCal showcased its new, centrally located, if humble, “hub” on Friday. The grand opening took place in a long-shuttered stairway connecting upper and lower Sproul Plaza, cleverly repurposed as a “peer-to-peer” bike-maintenance education center. The group aims to grow the campus’s cycling culture, and sees the new center as a keystone to that effort.
Fab Four headline at North Gate
November 10, 2010: “Mad Day Out,” an exhibit of 25 never-before-exhibited photographs of the Beatles taken at random London locations one day in July 1968
43 years after ‘Titicut Follies,’ it’s Berkeley, the movie
September 14, 2010: With dozens of documentaries under his belt, Frederick Wiseman has found that “when you turn the camera off, the interesting thing will happen.” That, in part, is why he plans to shoot some 250 hours of film for his exploration of life at Berkeley.
The BBC lands a helicopter at Memorial Stadium
August 27, 2010: The BBC was on campus Thursday to film a segment about seismic activity for the program “Naked Earth.” As part of the shoot, they landed a helicopter in the middle of Memorial Stadium.
Gulf oil drilling is just one facet of South’s surfeit of heavy industry
August 17, 2010:
Cal alum Rachel Edmonds ’09 is keenly interested in places like the Gulf of Mexico, where “dirty” industries provide jobs but can mar the landscape and degrade the environment. She recently visited many such sites in the American South — where much of the nation’s heavy industry is found — on a travel fellowship given annually by the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning.
Historic treasure of Jewish life and culture gifted to UC Berkeley
June 21, 2010: This summer, one of the world’s preeminent collections of Jewish life, culture and history will begin arriving at its new home at UC Berkeley. The transfer of a 10,000-piece collection from the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley is being made possible through gifts totaling $2.5 million from philanthropists Warren Hellman, Tad Taube, and the Koret Foundation.
A call for “moxie” and compassion marks Commencement
May 17, 2010: From the traditional to the outrageous, a colorful procession of more than 1,200 graduating seniors – many clutching their smartphones and some even tweeting – marched into UC Berkeley’s Walter A. Haas Jr., Pavilion on Sunday to celebrate a hard-earned rite of passage.
2010 Dorothea Lange Fellowship winner looks at dueling identities
April 21, 2010: Photojournalism student Steve Saldivar turned his camera on teenagers celebrating their quinceaneras to win the 2010 award that honors documentary photographer Lange. The grant will let him explore changes wrought by a new rail line through the center of his hometown, in East L.A.
