CAA Announcements

The Cal Alumni Association (CAA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Jefferson Coombs ’89 as CAA’s new Executive Director. A native of Marin County and a resident of Los Angeles and San Francisco, Mr. Coombs earned his B.A. in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and has been actively engaged with CAA, UC Berkeley, and the UC system for the past 20 years.

The Cal Alumni Association (CAA), in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley, conducted an email survey in an effort to understand and better serve alumni. All UC Berkeley undergraduate degree holders for whom the University has email addresses were invited to participate. More than 14,000 alumni responded, reflecting on their education and experience at Cal, reporting on their careers and interests, and sharing insight on alumni programs and services.

The University of California, Berkeley, baseball program will continue to represent the campus as an Intercollegiate Athletics sport, now and into the future, as the result of a successful and ongoing fundraising effort on the part of alumni, former players, parents of current players and other team supporters, campus officials said today (Friday, April 8). Read more from Newscenter

Today the Cal Alumni Association of the University of California, Berkeley announced that its executive director, R. Tucker “Tuck” Coop, will retire by the end of the calendar year. The association’s Board of Directors plans to engage in an executive search to fill the position. Coop, who will assist with the transition, spent eleven years at the Cal Alumni Association, first as director of CAA’s Lair of the Golden Bear, a summer camp in the Sierra Nevada, and for the past five years as the executive director.

Check out unfolding coverage of how UC Berkeley is responding to the Japan earthquake and tsunami. You’ll find events to attend, comments from campus experts, updates from campus officials, and more. Read more

Photo Jasmina Vujic (center, holding microphone), UC Berkeley professor of nuclear engineering, addresses audience questions at a panel about Japan’s nuclear crisis. Aaron Walburg photo

Steven Chu, who received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976, has been selected as the 2011 Alumnus of the Year by the Cal Alumni Association (CAA). The United States Secretary of Energy and Nobel laureate is being recognized for his ground-breaking contributions to the fields of biophysics and atomic physics, commitment to addressing climate change, and transformative leadership in energy research and policy.