UC Botanical Garden

Some of Berkeley’s tiniest and slimiest residents will once again find their winter homes to be safe and habitable thanks to a campaign by the campus Botanical Garden.

Prying eyes will find before them the stories of the planet and its people, collected from across space and time. Campus’s 10 collections and 22 libraries hold some of the rarest pieces in their fields.

Taking a break from classes and stepping outside the campus bubble to explore the surrounding city can be a fun and rewarding experience. Here are a few suggestions for your future weekend plans.

Alienor Baskevitch is enthralled by the outdoors — the sun, the air and being surrounded by flora and fauna brings her unfiltered, anxiety-free joy.

UC Berkeley Professor of the Graduate School in plant and microbial biology John Taylor frequented the UC Botanical Garden with his wife during the COVID-19 pandemic. For Taylor, the garden was one of the few places they could visit that was open at the time.

UC Berkeley can be intimidating and living away from home can be pretty overwhelming. This guide will help you provide for your needs while at Berkeley.

If you think it's going to be another summer indoors, think again. There are so many fun socially distanced local adventures you can do with your bubble.

Ricardo San Martin, the Sutardja Center’s Alt: Meat Lab Director and Industry Fellow, is working on cultivating Quillaja saponaria — the Chilean soapbark tree — so it can be used in an upcoming COVID-19 vaccine candidate.

Deemed by his granddaughter Leia Tyrrell as the “most amazing man ever to have lived,” Elmer Grossman, a pediatrician at Berkeley Pediatrics, died Aug. 15 at the age of 91.

Next week, the UC Botanical Garden will start reopening to visitors after being closed for more than three months — first to members Tuesday, and then to the general public July 22.