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Meet the 2023 – 2024 Cohort of The Achievement Award Program (TAAP)
The Achievement Award Program supports high-achieving, community-minded, low-income, first-generation college students in their pursuit of a UC Berkeley education. The Cal Alumni Association (CAA) congratulates all twenty-two members of our incoming 2023 – 2024 Alumni Scholar cohort.
What the Frack? Lack of Info on Fracking Fluid is “A Pervasive Regulatory Failure”
In the quest for natural gas, fracking companies may be pumping acutely toxic chemicals into the ground. Or maybe not. The problem is, no one knows. “It’s kind of the Wild West, in that you can manufacture what you want,” says Berkeley geochemist William Stringfellow about the industry practice of concocting hydraulic fracturing fluid, a […]
Many Enroll, Few Finish, Moocs March On: How Online Courses Are Changing Higher Ed
When Damilare Oladapo looks back at his undergraduate years at UC Berkeley, he says that when it comes to his education, he only made one mistake. “I really wanted to focus on graduating,” says the Nigerian-born English major. “I saw school as a short-distance race instead of a marathon.” Oladapo still loves literature and considers […]
Researching Discontent: Here’s Why a Regime May Need—and Secretly Want—Protests
“Do you really want to have secret informants in every single village?” It’s a question Peter L. Lorentzen has pondered quite a bit. After all, he’s an expert in uncovering discontent among the masses within authoritarian regimes. Secret informants, he asserts, are expensive and not always accurate. So the world’s dictators are likely using other […]
Klaas Bergmann ’74
The Academic Council of Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski, Bulgariadecided on Dec. 18, 2019 unanimously to award the honorary degree “DoctorHonoris Causa” to Klaas Bergmann “for his outstanding contributions toscience and for his continuous commitment to the integration of EasternEurope to the European Research Area; and in particular, for hiscollaboration with researchers from the Faculty […]
Can We Know Everything?
Search Engines lead us into new information frontiers. But will we ever find what we’re really looking for? When my son was young, he trembled in fear and joy. Like all of us, he arrived incomplete, and the neurons in the limbic system of his toddler’s brain were still growing. The limbic system is the seat […]
His Truth is Marching On
Rousas John Rushdoony and the rise of Christian conservatives. The nerve center of the Christian Reconstruction movement is located in the tiny Gold Rush town of Vallecito, about three hours east of San Francisco, off Highway 4. The founder of the movement, the late conservative theologian Rousas John Rushdoony ’38, C.Sing. ’39, M.A. ’40, relocated here […]
Unvaccinated Out of Options: Cal Adopts Tough Requirement for Childhood Vaccines
Enacting one of the toughest vaccine mandates in the country, California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill to require virtually all California school children to be vaccinated against potentially deadly diseases—or be home-schooled. His quick action Tuesday morning was the final step for the new law, which had passed both the state Senate and […]
