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Michelle Ott’s book Outer Space is Closer Than Antarctica has hit bookstores! Published by Chronicle Books Ott’s illustrated memoir describes life, love, and the science she learned after the four summer seasons she spent working at Antarctica’s largest research base, McMurdo Station. Michelle learned that outer space is in fact closer than Antarctica while attending […]
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Class of 2008 Sara Mirza
Sara Mirza ’08 has created a paradigm-shifting podcast that explores how people design and discover their way to a fulfilling career: Ace of Pentacles Podcast Featuring expert interviews, real-life stories, and career and life advice, the podcast takes a deep dive into the material and the numinous layers of the human experience through the lens […]
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Class of 1968 Roberta Berry Coyl
Roberta Berry Coyl ’68 was a world traveler and as a child crossed the Atlantic five times on the Queen Mary in the 1950’s with her Mother and brother, exploring the ship from top to bottom, bow to stern as a delighted kid would. After graduating from Berkeley in English, she earned a law degree […]
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Class of 1971 Mark Woods
Mark Woods ’71 writes: “This book presents over 200 photos in 96 pages I made from ’68 to ’73. As you might imagine these photos and scenes have been floating around in my brain for the last 50 plus years. Some of you may be in or recognize someone in the book. There is Hubert, […]
For many of us, the sound of the Campanile's carillon bells is inseparable from our memories of Berkeley, marking the hours between classes, ringing out across Sproul Plaza, and standing tall as the heart of campus life. As a longtime LEGO enthusiast, I kept asking myself: why isn't there a LEGO set for UC Berkeley?
So I designed one.
I'm thrilled to share that my design for a LEGO Sather...
Miller Nash LLP welcomes Thomas Vanis ’21 to the firm’s litigation and financial services teams. Based in the firm’s Long Beach office, Vanis supports clients in a wide range of commercial disputes and regularly assists with all phases of a case, from client intake through resolution. In addition to his litigation work, he has a strong foundation in finance and commercial transactions. His...
The Marion County Bar Association (MCBA) has selected Marion County Justice of the Peace Justin Kidd, J.D. ’09, as the recipient of the Carson Award for service to the Community, recognizing his sustained commitment to public service. The Carson Award is presented annually to an MCBA member whose work reflects exceptional dedication to the legal profession and to the broader community it...
Duane Morris LLP has promoted Robert C. Carrillo ’00 to the firm partnership.
Wuwei Mo, M.A. ’23, a UC Berkeley master’s graduate in Materials Science and Engineering , is now leading R&D operations at Mitico and helping accelerate the company’s progress in carbon capture. Mitico’s technology is unique—centered on efficient, durable, and environmentally friendly solid sorbents—and has the potential to become a significant innovation in the climate-tech...
Zexiang Li, Ph.D. ’89, and Al Hu, Ph.D. ’17, led intelligent driving technology company CiDi Inc. to a successful IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The listing marks a dual milestone: it is Hong Kong’s first publicly listed company focused on commercial autonomous vehicles and the world’s first public listing for driverless mining haulage technology.
Founded on deep R&D in...
Carmen Diana Deere, Ph.D ’78, recently published First-World Feminism and Women’s Civil and Political Rights in South America with Routledge press. It is a seven-country study of the interaction between feminists, jurists and legislators in the reform of married women’s property rights and the attainment of suffrage in the first half of the twentieth century. She is Distinguished Professor...
Meg Elison ’14 married the cartoonist Colin Lidston on August 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. The couple live in North Adams, MA, where Colin is the visitor experience manager at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA).
Peter Stielstra ’21 stars in two featured pieces in the 39th Annual Young Playwrights Festival, January 1 - 24, 2026 at Chicago Dramatists, 798 N. Aberdeen. Stielstra plays Marcus in Blizzard Bound by Sophia Ponce and Michael in Offices etc. by Clark Tavas.
For nearly four decades, the Young Playwrights Festival, the oldest such festival in the United States, has engaged and inspired high...
Amrita Bhasin ’23 was just named to the 2026 Forbes 30 under 30 list in the social impact category for her achievements in waste reduction and circularity in supply chain. Her social enterprise is supported by Stop Waste and the State of California.
Eli Andrew Ramer, who writes under the name Andrew Ramer, is a graduate of the class of 1973 in Religious Studies. He's the author of 19 published books of fiction and on spiritual subjects, and is the author of a newly released memoir, Tales of an Urban Mystic, in which he tells the stories of his unfolding spiritual life, from remembering past lives to having encounters with dead ancestors,...
Matt Biggar, Ph.D. ’92, has a new and timely book, Connected to Place: Regenerating Nature, Communities, and Local Economies through Systems Change (Cornell University Press, November 2025). Connected to Place is about changing the systems that shape how we live and hold us in patterns harming nature and people. Matt shows how systems change can reorient people’s lives around the places where...
