Pulitzer Prize

UC Berkeley’s Morrison Library was piled high with readers hopeful to gain a spot at Lunch Poems’ noontime poetry reading Feb. 2 with Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Louise Glück. 

Glück meets the basic needs for her garden by compensating its physical meagerness with rich imagination and satirical fun.

Despite being a historian, Leon Litwack, UC Berkeley professor emeritus in the department of history, was a man far ahead of his time.

Chloe Reynolds, UC Berkeley School of Journalism alumna, did not know the 2021 Pulitzer Prize awards were being announced until she found herself in a livestream with her editors in suits. 

Reporting from the city at the heart of many Black Lives Matter protests, UC Berkeley alumnus Andy Mannix spent days investigating and uncovering crucial information about the systemic issues in Minneapolis policing.

Abbie VanSickle, an alumna from the UC Berkeley School of Law and a staff writer for The Marshall Project, received news on Friday that she and the team of reporters that VanSickle had worked with were the recipients of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting.

Higgins began her reporting career at the Daily Cal, where she covered wide-ranging topics and worked as an editor in the night department.

Leon Litwack, historian emeritus at UC Berkeley, became a cult figure on campus by bringing his leftist intellectual fire to American history.

The Berkeley Forum's spring 2021 lineup has a diverse selection of speakers who are not only from a wide range of disciplines and ethnic backgrounds but are also unique within their given field.

After a national search, campus professor Geeta Anand was named dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism on Wednesday, making her the first woman to serve in the role.