On Campus
6 (More) Things You’ll Never Believe Came from Berkeley!
By Pat JosephCurb cuts, smokestack scrubbers, hanging chads, and more!
Berkeley Center Brings Science-Based Mindfulness to the Masses
By Leah WorthingtonA stone’s throw from the southwestern edge of campus sits a squat, nondescript, brown building with a lofty dream: to untangle the science of a meaningful life.
Remembering Joe Kapp
By Pat JosephJoe Kapp ’59 was the greatest bad quarterback there ever was—a larger-than-life character who left his mark as a player, coach, and activist.
Berkeley Bucks the Trend in Humanities
By Hayden RoysterEarly into his tenure as chancellor, Clark Kerr had a realization: Berkeley’s humanities were in crisis.
The Legacy of Berkeley’s I-House
By Margie CullenMeet five notable alumni who made waves in their fields
Publisher Wants Your Thrutopian Novel
By Leah WorthingtonAuthor and activist Aya de León talks about rewriting the climate narrative through pop fiction.
Bringing Real Smarts to Artificial Intelligence
By Chancellor Carol T. Christ“Our newest academic unit could not be more perfectly positioned.”
Special Edition of “What to Read, Watch, and Listen To”
By the editors of California magazineTry one of these this summer
“I was afraid we’d be isolated.”
By Martin Snapp...years ago when his wife Veena gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Violet. “The first nine months were perfect,” he says. “But when Violet was ten months old...
Meet Zona Roberts
By Martin SnappNowadays, people look back on the 1950s as the Happy Days, but for the kids who grew up during that time, it was anything but. Hovering over them were the twin terrors of The Bomb and a raging polio epidemic. One victim of the latter was Zona and Verne Roberts’ eldest son, Ed.
Saving a Language from Extinction
By Madeline Taub90-year-old Berkeley alumna Rebecca Contopoulou speaks Greek, Italian, French, English, Spanish, and another language that sounds a lot like Spanish but is actually Ladino, a Sephardic language that traces its origins to Medieval Spain.
Seamus Heaney in Berkeley
By Edward O’SheaMany Berkeleyans know that Nobel Prize-winning poet Czeslaw Milosz taught at Cal for many years. Fewer likely remember that his fellow laureate Seamus Heaney.
