Rebecca Peters won the prestigious Harry S. Truman Scholarship last week for her research and advocacy for water rights in developing countries. Read More…
While the UC Berkeley campus experienced the excitement of Cal Day, students in Zellerbach Hall participated in the annual TEDxBerkeley conference, designed to spark dialogue over issues ranging from the consumption of organic food to the push toward online education. The event, independently organized by the Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholars Read More…
The Golden Apple has returned once again! Basically, the award lets us tell our favorite professors how cool we think they are each year. After two years of apple silence, we are thrilled to welcome back the award and honor one of our many amazing professors! For this Berkeley specific Read More…
As technology increasingly finds it’s way into the classroom, one must ask: does it really belong there? Read More…
Move over, Justin Bieber. Twitter is not just a tool for following celebrities or sharing pictures anymore. The social media site that delivers short, 140-characters-or-fewer messages to the world is being used by UC Berkeley professors to initiate discussion in large lectures and continue dialogue outside the classroom about what Read More…
The Administrator of the USAID spoke to members of the UC Berkeley community about the agency’s collaborative approach to reduce poverty, sustain healthier communities and promote worldwide economic development. Read More…
This time last year, a movement was beginning in New York City that would spark numerous others across the country — including one on the UC Berkeley campus — and bring attention to national issues of inequality. Read More…
More than five months after Occupy Wall Street began, student protesters in California continue to draw on Occupy themes. Over the past few years, students from California public higher education institutions have protested on individual campuses and lobbied in Sacramento in response to decreased funding from the state and rising Read More…
UC Berkeley professor of English Lyn Hejinian was one of only two faculty members who spoke at Sept. 22’s Day of Action rally — and this came after a UC Davis professor was the only ladder-rank faculty member who spoke at a town hall meeting the Monday before. “I’m sure Read More…
Public Policy C103 “Wealth and Poverty” taught by Professor Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton, is always packed with students and auditors. Reich guides the class through the factors that contribute to the gap between the rich and poor and the policies aimed at shrinking it. Many Read More…
