Academics

Berkeley Lab scientists Dung-Hai Lee and Jizhong Zhou were recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

For students at Berkeley Law, clinics play a vital part in their curriculum and journey towards pursuing law, while making impacts on various communities.

Enrollment for fall 2023 classes began at UC Berkeley this past week. 

Berkeley Law professor Nazune Menka created an American Cultures course fall 2021 named Decolonizing UC Berkeley, dedicated to unpacking campus’ ties to settler colonialism and its relationship with Indigenous groups in California.

Students are speaking out about the allegedly increasing difficulty of CS 70, the campus discrete mathematics and probability theory course, after a recent midterm described on Reddit as “unbelievable” and “brutal.” 

On Feb. 12, the Financial Times released its 2023 Global MBA Ranking that raised UC Berkeley Haas’ School of Business full-time MBA program to a position ranked seventh internationally and fourth in the United States among programs like Columbia, Harvard and Stanford. This ranking marks a substantial increase from the previous year, when Haas tied for a position of 14th globally and ninth in the country.

Despite student concerns that course capture is to be phased out by certain campus departments, campus has stated that there are no such plans to terminate the service.

After a turbulent start to the semester, UC Berkeley’s Math 54 course will be replacing professor Kelli Talaska with professor Norman Sheu, who will take over on Monday. 

With the academic worker strike at the University of California now in its fifth week, national union members and labor experts predict wide-ranging impacts on the landscape of higher education.

Even after UC Berkeley’s Academic Senate enacted a contingency plan Nov. 28 to address the disruption caused by the UC-wide academic worker strike, questions surrounding assignment grading remain for faculty and students alike.