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Double major Eric Olliff’s inquisitive view of the world has helped earn him the 2012 University Medal, UC Berkeley’s top prize for graduating seniors.
Tag: humanities
Ten Berkeley faculty named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 24, 2013:
Ten Berkeley professors have been named members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious 233-year-old honorary society of national leaders from academia, business, public affairs and the humanities.
Berkeley English grad named Gates Scholar
March 20, 2013:
After a stint in the Navy, Justin Park encountered an Old English poem that piqued a fascination with medieval literature. Park pursued that interest while earning his B.A. at Berkeley and now has been named a Gates Scholar. He plans to study Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic lit at Cambridge.
Tansman chosen new director for Townsend Center for the Humanities
April 3, 2012:
Alan Tansman will direct the Townsend Center for the Humanities, starting in July.
Trimming time in the stacks
December 20, 2011:
Computer science graduate student Aditi Muralidharan has developed a sophisticated text-analyzing tool that could speed literary searches for humanities scholars and other researchers.
Namwali Serpell wins prize for promising women writers
September 6, 2011:
UC Berkeley’s Namwali Serpell, an assistant professor of English and a novelist, is one of six winners of the 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, which is given annually to women writers who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their careers.
‘Philadelphia Stories’: Exploring literature of race and freedom in early Philadelphia
December 13, 2010:
Antebellum Philadelphia, at the border between North and South, was home to a large and influential “free” African American community, and was viewed as a laboratory in which the possibilities of a future without slavery could be tested. The Townsend Center’s Humanities Lab this month features Philadelphia Stories: Americas Literature of Race and Freedom by Samuel Otter, professor of English at Berkeley.
