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Justin Park dropped out of high school, but he never lost his love of literature and learning. After 20 years as a bartender, bike messenger and military man, Park returned to school at UC Berkeley, graduated — and now has been selected as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, a top world honor.
Tag: veterans
Iraq vet ’13, tells of life after war
April 11, 2013:
Dave Smith deployed to Iraq twice during his time in the Marine Corps. Now he’s a Berkeley senior, about to earn his bachelor’s degree in political science. What he saw and did in Iraq hasn’t made for an easy ride. Smith talks intimately about student life after war, in an interview on KALW radio.
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.
Nuclear Engineering honored for Fukushima communications
June 28, 2012:
UC Berkeley’s Department of Nuclear Engineering has been awarded an American Nuclear Society’s Presidential Citation for its leadership in communications after Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant disaster.
Student video highlights a welcoming campus for military vets
February 28, 2012:
“Foot-print”, a short film by students in the Cal Veterans Group, provides a glimpse of life at UC Berkeley for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Some 300 vets are here today, twice as many as when the campus, in 2008, launched a new program to welcome them with outreach and orientation, financial-aid guidance and special workshops and classes.
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.
Berkeley graded ‘military friendly’ — again — by G.I. magazine
September 15, 2011:
For the second year, UC Berkeley has made the list of Military Friendly Schools, in a survey conducted by G.I. Jobs magazine. The campus ranked among the top 15 percent of schools surveyed. The Daily Californian reports.
Vets group, health plan advocates win UC student award
May 17, 2011:
A UC Santa Barbara group that helps student veterans adjust to campus life, and graduate students from UC Berkeley and UCSF who helped develop a university-wide student health insurance plan have won this year’s President’s Award for Outstanding Student Leadership
