Faces of Berkeley: Mitch Celaya, UCPD Chief
With retirement looming, Chief Mitchell Celaya reflects on his past 30 years of service in UCPD.
Faces of Berkeley: Mitch Celaya, UCPD chief
With retirement looming, campus police chief reflects on highs and lows of UC Berkeley tenure
Since assuming the position in 2009, Mitch Celaya has managed some of UC Berkeley’s most controversial disputes. But effective Dec. 31, Celaya will retire from his post, thus ending a 30-year career with the campus police. Read More…
Student-run production group creates viral, full-length video
If you ask UC Berkeley senior Kunal Agarwal what he did to make an original music video produced by 20-something-year-old college students go viral on the Internet, he’ll tell you it was a team effort. It all began about a year ago, when Agarwal and Bay Area DJ Sanjoy Deb Read More…
Faces of Berkeley: Harry Kreisler, ‘Conversations With History’ host has taped more than 500 interviews in 30 years
Thanks to his series of televised interviews, “Conversations With History,” Harry Kreisler, the campus’s Institute for International Studies executive director, has knowledge in several different fields that he has passes on to his viewers. Read More…
VIDEO: Faces of Berkeley: Osha Neumann
Osha Neumann is a lawyer for the homeless, a mural painter, and responsible for many of the sculptures at Albany Bulb.
Faces of Berkeley: Jan Etre, local artist
Berkeley resident organizes annual fair showcasing artists' talent
Beneath a canopy of redwood and oak, Jan Etre lounges peacefully on the grounds of Live Oak Park in northeast Berkeley — a site that will soon be saturated by the influx of tents, exhibitors and fair-goers when the 42nd Annual Live Oak Park Fair begins this weekend. Though the fair Read More…
Video: Kenya Wheeler, cancer survivor
Kenya Wheeler is a graduate student at Berkeley who was diagnosed with brain cancer. Read his full feature here.
Faces of Berkeley: Kenya Wheeler, cancer survivor
Berkeley graduate student wins against cancer, loses insurance
On the top of his buzzed head, Kenya Wheeler has a thin, almost unnoticeable line where his hair does not grow — a surgical scar that reminds him that he, as a brain cancer survivor, will always have to live with the fear of relapse. For the last seven months, Read More…
Video: Feature on Jim Patton
A profile of Emeritus Curator of Mammals, Jim Patton who talks about his life researches. Read the full feature here.
Faces of Berkeley: Jim Patton, adventuring professor
Integrative biology professor emeritus has been shipwrecked five times
UC Berkeley professor emeritus Jim Patton’s desk is nestled comfortably among rows of large gray cases storing hundreds of stuffed and oftentimes exotic creatures that have been carefully studied by researchers at the campus Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. As a curator at the museum for the last 40 years, the retired professor of Read More…