Education

Kelmar and her son smile Courtesy Stephanie Kelmar

The Daily, for Kids

By Alison Bowen

Five questions for Stephanie Kelmar ’90, founder of KidNuz podcast

Portrait of Polski Photo by Marcus Hanschen

Someone Had to Go First

By Pat Joseph

Berkeley Law’s Claudia Polsky on taking Trump to court

Campus Architect Wendy Hillis stands at the reflecting pool in Hearst Mining Circle with Bruce Beasley’s sculpture Rondo II behind her. Photo by Marcus Hanschen

What Goes Up

By Coby McDonald

For the Campus Architect, it’s a question of coherence

Illustration of people connected by circuit-like pathways Dan Bejar

Major Issue

By Nathalia de Alcantara

Media reports say the computer science major is in trouble. At Berkeley, it’s complicated.

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A Blessing of Unicorns

By James Pagett Tollen

Berkeley alumni have founded nearly 80 billion-dollar startups. Here are six of them.

Running football player in graduation gown holding a diploma and football

In a Hurry

By Scott Ball

Some of Cal’s best athletes are graduating early

Noura Erakat smiles in front of bookshelves Photo by Barbara Monteiro

Q&A: Noura Erakat’s Long Fight

By Hussain Khan, M.J. ’25

The author and human rights attorney on Berkeley activism and what keeps her advocating for Palestinians.

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Chancellor’s Letter: 2025 Fall/Winter

By Rich Lyons

“I am among the first to admit that Berkeley’s marketplace of ideas is not as open as it could and should be.”

Man filming with a camera on top of a van in a desert landscape McLeod films an exposed pile of radioactive uranium tailings in Tuba City, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. (Photo by Randy Hayes)

Lessons in Humility and Persistence

By Andrea Lampros

Filmmaker Toby McLeod has spent four decades amplifying Indigenous voices—while wrestling with how to tell stories not his own.

Protesters at Sather Gate Martin do Nascimento/KQED

Universities in the Crosshairs

By Margie Cullen, M.J. ’22

How the Trump Administration is gunning for higher education everywhere, UC included

Amy Tan smiles Photo by Julie Baldocchi

Joy Luck Collection

By Leah Worthington

Bancroft Library receives Amy Tan’s personal archive