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Contest winners shine new light on Fiat Lux

Steve Hockensmith — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:00:57 +0000

The Fiat Lux Remix contest invited students, faculty and staff members to revisit images of UC campuses commissioned in the mid-1960s by then-President Clark Kerr and taken by legendary photographer Ansel Adams – and published in the book Fiat Lux – and give them their own spin.

‘Fiat Lux’ asks us, again, to picture UC’s future

Barry Bergman — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:21:28 +0000

Nearly a half-century after Clark Kerr commissioned Ansel Adams to capture a 'prospective view' of UC, the On the Same Page program is prompting a rolling discussion of where the system is headed — and where it should be headed — in 2012.

UC Berkeley, as seen through Ansel Adams’ camera

Public Affairs — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:30:55 +0000

Legendary photographer Ansel Adams shot thousands of photos of Berkeley and the other UC campuses during the 1960s, and now a photo book based on the collection, "Fiat Lux," is going out to all incoming students as part of the annual On the Same Page program.

Picturing UC’s future: position sousaphones, reshoot, remix

Cathy Cockrell — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:16:49 +0000

At a precise location near Sather Gate, members of the Cal Band gamely shouldered their instruments Monday for a technically demanding photo op. The goal: to recreate a shot taken close to half a century ago by photographer Ansel Adams — this time for a 21st-century campus project on "picturing" UC's future.

On the Same Page gets new students talking with voice sample map

Alix Schwartz — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:54:38 +0000

With a welcome video and an experiment mapping the voices of this year's incoming class, the L&S program On the Same Page is highlighting the linguistic diversity of UC Berkeley.

On the Same Page spotlights the languages of Berkeley

Steve McConnell — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:37:23 +0000

Language, a uniquely human tool, links minds to one another across space and time. Few places on earth have more language diversity than UC Berkeley. So it's fitting that language itself will take center stage at Cal this fall, thanks to the On the Same Page program sponsored by the College of Letters and Science.