2026 Fall

Test Case

By Nathalia Alcantara

Hard questions about AI in the classroom

Segrè Gino Segrè, managing director of Bakar Labs. (Photo by Marcus Hanschen)

From Art to State of the Art 

By Coby McDonald

Biotech incubator marks five years in former Berkeley Art Museum

Question mark test Chris Gash

Test Blinded

By Margie Cullen, M.J. ’22

UC faculty split over standardized test requirement

View of large group of students as they take an exam in a lecture hall at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, January 28, 1964. (Photo by Warren K Leffler/US News & World Report Collection/PhotoQuest/Getty Images) Photo by Warren K Leffler/US News & World Report Collection/PhotoQuest/Getty Images

Editor’s Note: Fall 2026

By Pat Joseph

“How strange it would be if the apogee of digital technology delivered us back to blank notebooks and pencils.”

Doudna stands Reuters/Manuel Orbegozo

The House that Doudna Built

By James Pagett Tollen

IGI-affiliated researchers have spawned more than 30 startups. Here are just six of them.

Tosh Lupoi and Ron Rivera. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)

The Play: Fall 2026

By Pat Joseph

The Wide World of Cal sports

Statue of Alex Morgan A larger-than-life statue of Alex Morgan in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Taking it to the Man

By Scott Ball

How Cal’s Alex Morgan led the charge on equal pay for U.S. Women’s Soccer

Black-and-white photo of three men Courtesy of The Bancroft Library

Mixed Media: Fall 2026

By Editorial Staff

New works by Berkeley authors and artists

Sisseline Lovejoy dribbles a basketball. Sisseline Lovejoy (Photo by Scot Goodman)

Still Rolling

By Emma Silvers

At 50, the Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program keeps disabled athletes in the game

UC Berkeley Army ROTC cadets assembled in the hills above campus. (Sophia Cutino) (Sophia Cutino)

Training Ground

By Nathalia Alcantara

The cadets of UC Berkeley’s Army ROTC

Illustrations by Heather Gatley

Spotlight: Fall 2026

By H.J. Valerio

Berkeley's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists

A shirtless photograph of Samuel L. Clemens Courtesy of Bancroft Library

Collections: Fall 2026

By James Pagett Tollen

A photograph of a (surprisingly buff) Samuel L. Clemens shirtless