2022 Winter Archives - Cal Alumni Association

Greenberg and Robinson walk across Telegraph

_{(Marcus Hanschen)}

The Push to Abolish Cars on Telegraph

By Margie Cullen

On a Sunday in September, Telegraph Avenue looked a little different.

Shirin Neshat (right) with subject Malala Yousafzai, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, in front of Neshat's painting

_{Neshat (right) with subject Malala Yousafzai, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize recipient (Jorge Herrerera/NPG/Camera Press/Redux)}

Berkeley’s Women Artist Trailblazers

By Laura Smith

Berkeley claims one of the first graphic novels, famous communist sculptors, and more

John Doar walking in the street to Montgomery

_{D-O-A-R: U.S. Justice Department attorney and Berkeley Law alumnus John Doar on the long walk to Montgomery, March 21, 1965.
(1976 Matt Herron/Take Stock/TopFoto)}

The Surprising Story of the Berkeley Attorneys Who Helped Desegregate the South

By Rob Gunnison

Anthony Lee simply wanted to go to high school.

_{(Illustration by Monica Hellström)}

Cheered Up: You Can Be a Dancer and a Lawyer

By Rachel Schuster ’17, J.D. ’23 as told to Margie Cullen, M.J. ’22

When I was really young, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease.

Joan Brown's painting, Harmony, featuring half her and half cat

_{Harmony, 1982; private collection, courtesy  Matthew Marks Gallery; © Estate of Joan Brown}

The Beautiful Life, Tragic Death, and Fascinating Career of Joan Brown

By Laura Smith

The many incarnations of the artist

11 Things You’ll Never Believe Came Out of Berkeley!

By Pat Joseph

Yeah, okay, you’ll probably believe some of it. Still, we think it’s a fun list.

_{The law school’s dean, Erwin Chemerinsky (Irene Yi/© UC Regents)}

Discriminatory Bylaws and Free Speech

By Pat Joseph

On September 28, 2022, an opinion piece ran in the Los Angeles–based Jewish Journal that carried the alarming headline, “Berkeley Develops Jewish-Free Zones.”

_{Clark Kerr [l], former President of the University of California, leaves a meeting of the Board of Regents after they fired him at Governor Ronald Reagan's insistence. (Ted Streshinsky/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)}

The Winter Issue’s Editor’s Note

By Pat Joseph

“The University is not engaged in making ideas safe for students. It is engaged in making students safe for ideas.”

_{Highlighting boundaries: What makes a “safe space” safe? (nadia bormotova/istock)}

Trouble with Safe Spaces

By Dhoha Bareche

Last Summer on Reddit, someone posted a picture of the house rules at the Person of Color Berkeley Student Cooperative, also called Castro House, that stated “white guests are not allowed in common spaces.”

_{(Patrick Welsh)}

Berkeley People Shaking Up the Food Scene

By Madeline Taub

Chefs, a baker, a cannabis confectioner, and more

_{(COURTESY OF TAMARA KEITH)}

A White House Correspondent, A Vet, and Cal’s Mic Men

By Martin Snapp

Columnist Martin Snapp shares alumni’s stories.

Students study on the patio of the Free Speech Movement Cafe in the Moffitt Undergraduate Library at UC Berkeley on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019.

_{(Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)}

What to Read and Watch this Winter

The best from Berkeley’s writers and film makers

_{Coming Soon: The Gateway, future home to Computing, Data Science, and Society.
(Weiss/Manfredi)}

Letter from Berkeley’s Chancellor

By Chancellor Carol T. Christ

Our university’s return to the full range of in-person research, teaching, learning, and extracurricular activities has helped to confirm what we have long believed: All that we do, and all that we are, is supported and enhanced by the thousands of daily collaborations and interactions among members of our community.

_{(NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)}

Did You Know Saturn’s Rings are New?

By Margie Cullen

In middle school science class, the planets were all reduced to their most obvious characteristic. Mercury is the smallest planet, Jupiter the biggest. Uranus is the funny one. And Saturn is the one with rings.

Pod of sperm whale calves and their mother diving, image was taken off the north western coast of Mauritius.

_{(Wildestanimal/Alamy Stock Photo)}

How To Speak Sperm Whale

By Madeline Taub, M.J. ’23

Learning a new language is hard, especially when no human speaks it.

Swedish scientist Svante Paabo poses with a replica of a Neanderthal skeleton at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. Swedish scientist Svante Paabo was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries on human evolution.

_{(AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)}

Nobel Season Brings Halloween Hat Trick

By Margie Cullen

Every year, October brings two things: Halloween and Nobel Week. This year, the Berkeley laureates (yes, multiple!) seemed to combine the two.

_{Dania Matos (Brittany Hosea-Small)}

How Berkeley is Improving Equity and Inclusion

By Lizeth De La Luz

Five Questions with Dania Matos, Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion

_{(AP Photo/Horace Cort)}

Berkeley’s Partnership with Tuskegee

By Rob Gunnison

In July of this year, Berkeley announced a partnership with Tuskegee University for the study of data and community, a mission that aligns with the long tradition at Tuskegee of using academic rigor to advance its social agenda.

Did Mice Reveal the Fountain of Youth?

By David Ye

An experiment conducted by the lab of Berkeley bioengineering professor Irina Conboy showed that a single transfusion of blood from older mice to younger mice triggered cellular senescence in the younger animals.