Special guests include Dr. Tsu-Jae King Liu, Dean of the UC Berkeley College of Engineering and Colette Patt ’85, Ph.D. ’95, Assistant Dean for DEIBJ, UC Berkeley College of Computing.
Suzanne Marriott recently published her memoir, Watching for Dragonflies: A Caregiver’s Transformative Journey, the inspirational story of her spiritual and psychological growth over the ten years she cared for her husband who suffered from multiple sclerosis.
Highlights of James “Guy” Mansfield’s decade of volunteering in search and rescue can be found in the book A Dog’s Devotion: True Adventures of a K9 Search and Rescue Team, co-authored with Suzanne Elshult, to be published in the fall of 2022 by Lyons Press. In 2018, Guy co-founded the Washington State SAR Planning Unit, […]
San Francisco based Linden Lab set out to build virtual reality hardware; instead the company ended up creating an entire virtual world. Freed from the laws of physics and suburban propriety, in Second Life your house can float, your neighbors might be elves, and you are welcome to go about your business as a giant […]
Finding Myself in the Beats My son, Danny, returned from an exchange semester at Berkeley and treated me to a recitation of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg’s Hadda Be Playing on the Jukebox. Robert Haas’s American Poetry class had introduced Danny to the Beats, and he wanted to know whether I had read Jack Kerouac’s On the […]
