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Savio lecturer: Speak up for workers ‘behind the kitchen door’

By Barry Bergman, UC Berkeley News As recently as 2001, Saru Jayaraman admitted Thursday in Wheeler Auditorium, she was just another “oblivious, happy consumer,” a recent...

Berkeley10 years ago

Sproul rally brings FSM veterans, current students Together

Veterans of the Free Speech Movement — many in T-shirts bearing the legend “Free Speech: Carry It On” — returned to Sproul Plaza on Wednesday to...

Berkeley10 years ago

Is Justin Lynch US Swimming’s Next Michael Phelps?

By Shannon Sims, OZY What do you do once you’ve beaten Michael Phelps’ record? At 16 years old? The response of swimmer Justin Lynch, who turned...

Berkeley10 years ago

Former Students Celebrate Professor Troy Duster

By Barry Bergman, UC Berkeley News “I once had a very good professor who gave me very bad advice,” UC Berkeley sociologist Troy Duster said last...

Berkeley10 years ago

UC Berkeley to Conserve Energy and Money by Replacing Lights

By Octavia Sun UC Berkeley is in the midst of a lighting project that aims to conserve energy and save money by replacing light fixtures in...

Arts and Culture10 years ago

Block Party Celebrates New Art Museum and Film Archive

By Barry Bergman, UC Berkeley News Every art museum needs a frame, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive celebrated a milestone Thursday in...

Berkeley10 years ago

Book by UC Berkeley Professor Puts “Mass Incarceration on Trial”

By Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed The United States has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. It has come down a sliver...

Berkeley10 years ago

War, ‘Mutiny’ and Civil Rights: Remembering Port Chicago

By Barry Bergman, UC Berkeley News Just after 10:18 p.m. on July 17, 1944, UC Berkeley seismographs measured what looked like a 3.4-magnitude earthquake. Far from...

Arts and Culture11 years ago

Life Stories of Early African American UC Berkeley Faculty

By Cathy Cockrell, UC News In 1942 a young African American Ph.D., David Blackwell, interviewed for a teaching job in UC Berkeley’s math department. He got...

Berkeley11 years ago

Mastercard Scholars Program Graduates First Six

By UC Berkeley News UC Berkeley held a celebration last week to honor six students from Sub-Saharan Africa earning master’s degrees this month. The group is...

Berkeley11 years ago

Richmond Citizens Want In on LBNL Expansion Project

Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization (CCISCO) in partnership with the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) hosted a town hall meeting allowing Richmond residents...

Berkeley11 years ago

In South Africa, the ‘Hard Work of Reconciliation’ Continues

By Cathy Cockrell, UC Berkeley News Many people alive today are still recovering from wounds suffered during South Africa’s chaotic transition to democracy 20 years ago...

Arts and Culture11 years ago

UC Student Art Exhibit “Envisioning Human Rights”

UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center, celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2014, got some help this week from the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and...

Berkeley11 years ago

Former Foster Child Gains Honors, Pushes for System Change

By Andrew Cohen Lily Dorman Colby, class of 2014, recalls how a routine visit to her pediatrician years ago led to a surprising revelation. “My jaw...

Berkeley11 years ago

West Oakland Girls Attend STEM Conference

Fifty girls from West Oakland schools attended the Expanding Your Horizons Conference last weekend at UC Berkeley, an all-day STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) event.

Education11 years ago

The New Parkway’s ‘First Friday Shorts’ Showcases Student Films

The Media Enterprise Alliance at KDOL-TV will showcase student films from their video production workshop at “First Friday Shorts,” a free monthly screening of short films...

Berkeley11 years ago

Gala Honors African Studies at UC Berkeley

By Cathy Cockrell The spirit of revival and rebirth was evoked at last Saturday’s Renaissance Gala, a fundraiser benefiting the Department of African American Studies and...

Berkeley11 years ago

Universities Unite to Boost Number of Minority Ph.D. Students, Faculty

By Gretchen Kell, UC Berkeley News An unprecedented alliance formed among four West Coast universities aims to remedy a seemingly intractable nationwide problem: Too few underrepresented...

Berkeley11 years ago

How Chronic Stress Predisposes Brain to Mental Illness

By Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley News University of California, Berkeley, researchers have shown that chronic stress generates long-term changes in the brain that may explain why...

Berkeley11 years ago

State’s Water Woes Could Be Just Beginning

By Steve Hockensmith, UC Berkeley News As 2013 came to a close, the media dutifully reported that the year had been the driest in California since...

Berkeley11 years ago

Award Winning Journalist Susan Rasky, 61

By Public Affairs, UC Berkeley Susan F. Rasky, an award-winning Congressional reporter who returned to her native California to teach at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of...

Uncategorized11 years ago

Anthropologist Wins Award for Exposing Human Organs Trade

By Kathleen Maclay, UC Berkeley News UC Berkeley anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes has been honored by the American Anthropological Association with its first ever Anthropology in Public...

Berkeley11 years ago

UC Berkeley Black Student Enrollment Declines

While the number of African American students being accepted at UC Berkeley hasn’t declined, the number of students choosing to enroll has; recent reports show in...

Education11 years ago

Vallejo Superintendent Seeks to Improve Schools

When Dr. Ramona Bishop was chosen in 2011 to be superintendent of the Vallejo Unified School District, she wanted to make sure schools are safe and...

Berkeley11 years ago

UC Berkeley Students Tackle Climate Change in Richmond

By Kathleen McClay, UC Berkeley News Residents of Richmond on the northeastern edge of San Francisco Bay expect climate change to present their city with major...