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Lair of the Golden Bear

What It Takes to Keep the Lair Running

This is your role-by-role guide to the jobs that keep the Lair running. By the end, you’ll see how every part—comes together to create the Lair’s special song.

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David Lu: Reducing Air Pollution with Actionable Data

Presented by Clarity Movement’s sensors can be found in 85 countries…but none of Clarity Movement’s success would have happened without UC Berkeley. David Lu ’16 didn’t know how clear the sky could be or the true color vibrancy of flowers until he came to the Bay Area in June 2012. Growing up in Shanghai, the […]

_{Paul Bryzek MBA ’24 on graduation day / Courtesy of Paul Bryzek} Career

Paul Bryzek: ‘Without Impact, a Business isn’t Sustainable’

“I learned in my previous career that if the impact part is missing from a business, it’s not very sustainable.”

Lair of the Golden Bear

21 People, 5 States, One Family: A Conversation with New Camper Rob

What makes the Lair different from other vacations? For Rob, “the Lair offered so many more informal opportunities to reconnect than had we been staying in a hotel, or a motel, or a theme park.”

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Building Bridges: Emily Newman on Cal, Community, and Giving Back

“At times Cal feels like a very large campus, but I found my group and my niche there… We built this connection to who we are as students today, and then who we can be as alumni.”

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Book Talk: The Roots of Polarization

820 Social Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA

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Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Colloquium: Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Rescue

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Art exhibit, film screening & discussion to celebrate May Day

2521 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94720

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What If We Stopped Shopping?

A conversation with Lawrence Glickman, M.A. 89’, Ph.D. ’92, on economic blackouts and consumer activism

David R. Fuller ’53, J.D. ’56

David Fuller ’53, J.D. ’56, writes: “I have to thank my older Brother, Everett (Bud) E. Fuller ’45 for sponsoring me as a Sigma Phi Pledge, thus enabling me to enjoy seven years as a Cal fraternity member from 1949 to 1956, and provide a very exciting and fulfilling college experience. Cal at that time […]

Joseph Godlewski

Joseph Godlewski ’15 published his newest book The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements with Routledge Press. Based on fieldwork and archival research conducted during his time at Cal, the book examines the intersection of race and the built environment in the region now known as southeastern Nigeria. Enmeshed in the history of […]

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