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Luke Bonham, Danielle Nicholson, Daniel Price and Leena Suleiman share insights from their time at Berkeley as they survey the road ahead.
Tag: University Medal
An 18-year-old wunderkind named top graduating senior
May 9, 2013:
Ritankar Das, 18, double major in bioengineering and chemical biology, is the youngest University Medalist in more than a century. He will be graduating from UC Berkeley in only three years with more than 200 credits and a GPA of 3.99.
Berkeley Medal finalists ready to put promise into practice
May 8, 2012:
The 2012 University Medal finalists — Allison Barden, Zarko Perovic, Whitney Stewart and Sho Takatori — share experiences and insights from their time at Berkeley as they survey the road ahead.
University Medal finalists check in before checking out
May 10, 2011:
BERKELEY — University Medalist Aaron Benavidez: Not your run of the mill cellist turned über-scholar. As finalists for this year’s University Medal — the annual award bestowed on Berkeley’s top graduating senior since 1871 — Katherine Beattie, Ivan de Kouchkovsky, Sheel Jagani and Matthew Zahr exemplify the passion, purpose and promise of the class of 2011. With commencement ushering in [...]
University medal finalists learn lessons about leadership at Berkeley
May 11, 2010:
Pamela Krayenbuhl, Erik Petigura, Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez, and Reid Zimmerman, this year’s finalists for the University Medal, respond to questions about what contributed to their success at Berkeley.
Top graduating senior’s life trajectory is amazing
May 10, 2010: It’s fitting that the life of Josh Biddle, UC Berkeley’s top graduating senior, would read like the lyrics of “Amazing Grace.” During high school in Marin County, Calif., and at a subsequent boarding program for troubled teens in Colorado, he was lost. But while driving a tractor in his Great-aunt Velma’s farm, finding his niche in science at City College of San Francisco and transferring to UC Berkeley, he was found. This Sunday, he will share his story at Commencement Convocation.
