"Ralph Metzner's quest was to draw from the rich bodies of knowledge and wisdom emergent from European and Asian spiritual and mystical traditions and bring this to bear in expanding a modern science of consciousness." 🌱✨ #BerkeleyBlog

Congratulations to the Transfer Class of 2021! You're #BerkeleyBound! Welcome to the Golden Bear family! 🐻💙💛

To check your @CalAdmissions status, visit your MAP@Berkeley portal: apply.berkeley.edu/status

And join other new Bears in the official Berkeley Transfer Class of 2021 group: http://bit.ly/CalTransfer2021FB

"Recent efforts by students and Chancellor Carol Christ to build relationships with Sacramento legislators have helped legislators and (Gavin) Newsom’s staff understand what an increase in funding would mean for UC Berkeley." #CampusConversations #SupportUC

A new device created by Berkeley engineers promises to make the 3D printing of biomaterials like organs and food a lot more viable. 😮

“The problem with 3D bioprinting is that it is a very slow process, so you can’t print anything big because the biological materials will deteriorate by the time you finish,” said Boris Rubinsky, professor of mechanical engineering and leader of the team that designed the device. “One of our innovations is that we freeze the material as it is being printed so that the biological material is preserved, and we can control the freezing rate.” #BerkeleyResearch

Berkeley Blog — Why Mueller had to punt on obstruction

"The most important thing for Trump going forward, is whether the House will initiate an impeachment investigation." #BerkeleyBlog via #BerkeleyLaw

Elwyn Berlekamp, game theorist and coding pioneer, dies at 78

Berlekamp was a UC Berkeley mathematician and game theorist whose error-correcting codes allowed spacecrafts from Voyager to the Hubble Space Telescope send accurate, detailed and beautiful images back to Earth. 🌟

"Berlekamp came of age during the early years of the digital revolution and focused on a problem encountered whenever information is sent from one device to another: How do you account for lost bits of data? He developed algebraic algorithms for compressing images or other information in ways that allowed precise reconstruction, even if parts of the data stream were missing due to noise or faulty transmission."

India could meet air quality standards by cutting household fuel use 🔥 #BerkeleyResearch

"Mitigating the use of household fuels could also reduce air pollution-related deaths by approximately 13%, which is equivalent to saving about 270K lives per year." 😮

"My parents are from Bulgaria and I'm the first child born in the United States. It's interesting because I'd be too Bulgarian for Americans and too American for people in Bulgaria. I grew up in a kind household, my parents embody a certain kind of tenderness but as a kid, I would feel isolated. I would be spoken over or someone wouldn’t get my sense of humor or their reactions when they discovered I’m gay. I don’t think anyone intentionally made me feel that way, but this helped me make it a point to make other people feel comfortable when they’re around me. You can be the smartest, most beautiful person in the room, but if you don’t treat people the way they deserve to be treated then none of it matters. I’ve also been very comfortable with my sexuality since the 9th grade and it definitely comes with certain challenges. I’ve never had the option to choose how I came out to my family. My parents come from a place with a lot of stigmas, so they weren’t the most welcoming initially. However, I do think we’re capable of changing the beliefs of people around us even if it’s not our responsibility. I’ve worked a lot of people’s ideas of what makes me — me, whether it's my sexuality, or not necessarily being religiously affiliated. There’s just so much power to the individual."
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#berkeleypov photo & interview by Patrica Besada '20

Congratulations to Darrin Bell — Berkeley alum, former The Daily Californian cartoonist, and the first African American recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning — "for beautiful and daring editorial cartoons that took on issues affecting disenfranchised communities, calling out lies, hypocrisy and fraud in the political turmoil surrounding the Trump administration" #GoBears #FiatLux🌟

🎧Fiat Vox: Chancellor Carol Christ and Professor Emerita Carol Clover on women in the academy, then and now

In 1970, when Chancellor Carol Christ joined UC Berkeley's English department as an assistant professor, only 3% of the faculty on campus were women. “I always felt like a pioneer, in part, because I’m of the generation of the feminist revolution,” says Christ. 🌟

Congratulations to the nine Berkeley faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, to address the most complex challenges of our time. 🌟 #BerkeleyResearch #FiatLux

We have just completed our first, new Strategic Plan in 16 years, and the campus is ready to take the next step to turn its aspirations into physical reality.

Key campus priorities include housing, energy efficiency, accessibility, mobility, seismic remediation, and deferred maintenance. We are seeking community feedback on these plans through surveys and town hall meetings. Please share! 👩‍💼

We're approaching the last week of the University of California's #CoolCampusChallenge. Help us take back the lead and reduce our carbon footprint! #GoBears #EndsApril26 #Prizes
https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/04/01/cool-campus-challenge/

It’s #NationalLibrarianDay! 💻🔎📚

Berkeley historian, Thomas Laqueur, says the loss to the world is difficult to comprehend. 😢

“It’s been a sweeping away of this site,” Laqueur says. “In some ways it’s like the burning of the Library of Alexandria (in 48 BC). There isn’t the same kind of archive, but it’s of that level of importance in terms of historical destruction. What other building has the same meaning around the world? Maybe the Great Wall of China. Maybe the Acropolis in Athens."

🎤 The karaoke booth felt “like singing in the shower, but with better equipment.”

These undergrands spent more than 40 hours a week for two weeks creating it in a makerspace in the campus’s Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation. Then, they installed the pod in their dorm’s lounge and used it to do research on the residents. 🎧🎤🎼🕺

“The energy on this campus is amazing...The breadth is so cool, it has just about everything you could ever ask for.” #CalDay💙💛#Memories

“You could build today a fire warning app that would wake you up in the event of a nearby fire and help you decide if you need to flee...You could create an algorithm that would bring in all the data, detect the fire, calculate the direction it is moving and project what the fire is burning toward, maybe 30 minutes or an hour or two out. There is nothing to inhibit us from building that now.” — geography professor Jeff Chambers #BerkeleyResearch 🔥📲

If you missed Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society's Othering & Belonging conference, you can listen to Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II's closing keynote on our #BerkeleyTalks Podcast. 👏👏

"Forever grateful to be a Bear." 💙🐻💛

(#BerkekeyPOV by @hacheeen | Edited by UC Berkeley)

What a wonderful #CalDay weekend — thanks for all the memories! #GoBears

“I hope people feel inspired — not only to take up the mantle of (the Third World Liberation Front), but to join the struggle and fight for a better world.” 🌟

“For the first time in a silicon switch, we are approaching the large switches that people can only build using bulk optics. Our switches are not only large, but they are 10,000 times faster, so we can switch data networks in interesting ways that not many people have thought about.” 🌟#BerkeleyResearch

CONGRATULATIONS! Five Berkeley faculty were among 168 scholars, scientists and artists named Guggenheim Fellows. 🌟 #BerkeleyMinds

Happy 103rd birthday, Beverly Cleary '38! 😊 #CalGrad

🐛🐜🐞🐛🐜🐞🐛🐜🐞🐛🐜🐞!!! #CalDay

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