Maria Klawe

The Berkeley Forum, a student-run organization that hosts prominent speaking events on campus, announced its lineup of 17 speakers Wednesday afternoon — a stark increase from the nine speakers slated in spring 2018 and the 12 speakers in fall 2017.

Campus professor David Patterson published an essay Friday in response to former Google employee James Damore’s memo, in which Damore stressed that women are biologically different and not suited to working in technology companies like Google.

As part of a larger effort to increase female participation in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, UC Berkeley has signed on to be a lead institution in a new online mentorship program designed to encourage young female undergraduates to enter STEM fields.