Female students still struggle to find foothold in engineering, computer science

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Brittany Judoprasetijo is accustomed being one of only a handful of women sprinkled across male-dominated engineering classes. “Usually, it doesn’t bother me,” said Judoprasetijo, a UC Berkeley senior majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. “Of course, it does get kind of lonely.” Judoprasetijo is one of many students in Read More…

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New admissions website hopes to reflect Berkeley experience

After months of clicking through college websites and digging through brochures to decide which universities to apply to, thousands of hopefuls will start submitting their application to UC Berkeley in the next 15 days. Just in time for the Nov. 1 opening of the UC undergraduate application submission portal, UC Berkeley has launched a new Read More…

UC launches Onward California campaign

A massive blue banner looms over Terminal 2’s security checkpoint at the Oakland International Airport. “By the time you reach your destination we’ll probably have a new invention,” it reads. “UC researchers average 4 inventions a day — constantly moving California forward.” “It’s clever,” said Arnold Asuncion, a chemical engineering Read More…

Reddit added a golden bear to its masthead Monday in honor of UC Berkeley's subreddit ranking.

UC Berkeley recognized on Reddit’s front page

A golden bear adorned reddit.com’s front page Monday, in celebration of UC Berkeley’s third-place finish in a competition tracking the growth of college subreddits. Reddit — a social news microblogging website where users can submit content and rank posts up or down to decide what posts are on the website’s Read More…