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Friday, October 23, 2020

UC Berkeley from abroad: The international student experience during a pandemic

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However, it has not been all doom and gloom; many international students have been able to find community at UC Berkeley.
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Summer Orientation 2019

Thursday, June 6, 2019
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UC Berkeley professors share their favorite summer memories

How have UC Berkeley professors spent their favorite summers? Read on to find out what campus faculty have done during their most memorable summers.
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Thursday, May 23, 2019

Professors react to ‘Rate my Professor’ reviews: Alex Filippenko

Cal Astronomy Professor Alex Filippenko reacts to critical, harsh and strange reviews left by students on the “Rate my Professor” platform

Research & Ideas

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

UC Berkeley researchers find black holes do not constitute all dark matter

In an article published Monday, UC Berkeley researchers disproved existing notions that dark matter is mostly composed of black holes.
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Back and Forth

Friday, September 28, 2018

Childhood reading in retrospect: Conversations with UC Berkeley professors

I became curious to know if others had experienced this phenomenon — if their careers and interests could similarly be traced to their favorite childhood book. More specifically, I wanted to know if this was the case for professors here at UC Berkeley.
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Fall Orientation 2018

Thursday, August 23, 2018

What was your professor’s most memorable 1st day of school?

My most memorable first day of school was my first day as a graduate teaching assistant. — John Kihlstrom, professor emeritus of psychology
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Summer Orientation 2018

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

UC Berkeley professors talk on their favorite summers in college

What do illegal camping, bilingual sailing lessons and Robert Kennedy have in common? They each could be your path to a future university professorship — or, at least, they each were part of a UC Berkeley faculty member’s road to success.
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Research & Ideas

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

UC Berkeley researchers discover farthest star ever observed, 9 billion light years away

The most distant star ever observed — at a distance of about nine billion light years — was captured using the Hubble Space Telescope by a group of researchers, including members of the UC Berkeley department of astronomy.
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Charter Day 2018, Research & Ideas

Thursday, March 22, 2018

UC Berkeley’s ‘revolutionary’ findings over 150 years tackle world’s biggest challenges

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, more commonly known as Berkeley Lab, was founded in 1931 by campus physics professor Ernest O. Lawrence and is currently located in the hills east of campus.
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Research & Ideas

Sunday, February 25, 2018

Amateur astronomer makes history with photo of 1st light of exploding star

Victor Buso, an amateur astronomer, skyrocketed to fame after Sept. 20, 2016, when he became the first person to photograph the initial stages of an exploding star.
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