Academics

As a mother and Portland, Oregon resident, attending an in-person master’s program was a difficult feat for Sophie Christian.

While UC Berkeley is often admired for its excellence in science and technology, lately, more students are majoring in the arts and humanities

UC Berkeley and University of Nairobi students began collaborating Monday on a six-week “Virtual Global Innovation Workshop” on biomedical equipment design for low-resource settings. 

The university selected a group of 28 UC doctoral and postdoctoral students for the fourth class of UC President’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellows last Thursday. This select group will attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany in late June.

UC Berkeley’s Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, or TDPS, department saw an overwhelming decrease in accepted PhD offers this year. 

Jeff MacKie-Mason, the University Librarian, will retire June 2024 according to a campus press release.

The National Academy of Sciences, or NAS, announced May 2 that seven UC Berkeley professors were selected to become members of the academy.

UC Berkeley alum Hua Hsu, a professor of literature at Bard College and staff writer for the New Yorker, received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for his memoir “Stay True.”

As graduation nears, seniors are presenting their research and creative projects to represent their time and work on campus.

ASUC Senator Stephanie Wong released a statement last week urging the UC Berkeley community to address the alleged lack of support for the Cantonese language on campus.