Bancroft Library

UC Berkeley alumnus and outgoing California governor Jerry Brown is set to participate in Bancroft Library’s oral history project along with help from partner KQED.

The project, founded in 1963, houses the Mark Twain Papers, an extensive collection of the private manuscripts, sketches, essays, poems, notes, photographs and letters of the man behind the pseudonym, Samuel Clemens

We hope your summers have been restful and restorative, and we’re thrilled to have you here in what former chancellor Clark Kerr once called the “City of Intellect.”

O’Hara grew up in La Grange, Illinois with her four siblings before moving to Berkeley in 1971 at the encouragement of her sister, Liz O’Hara.

Whether it’s in the STEM fields or the humanities, UC Berkeley’s size and funding means that there’s almost certainly someone here on campus researching something you’re interested in.

Every nation, city and college is laden with its own traditions, and UC Berkeley is no different, full of superstitions and lore.

I stood between South Hall and Bancroft Library to watch the sunset, and I experienced that feeling that “this was where I belong."

To stroll through UC Berkeley's campus is to travel through time, whether looking out from the top of the Campanile or down from the hills above.

Chancellors continually find themselves caught between the rock of student opinion and the hard requirements of their job description.