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"Earlier this month at the virtual Luncheon in the Library, an annual event for Library supporters, Ledesma guided 150-plus attendees through a series of stirring vignettes from his life, with insights that stretched beyond the pages of his book.

Yale professor and Berkeley alum Jing Tsu (BA Comparative Literature; MA Rhetoric) is featured on this week's Book Review podcast discussing her new book "Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern."

UC Berkeley undergraduate Jonathan Kuo was recently named as a 2022 recipient of the Marshall Scholarship. Created after World War II by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, this prestigious scholarship selects and finances distinguished American students to pursue graduate studies and careers at any university in the U.K.. On track to graduate with a B.A. in Rhetoric & Molecular and Cell Biology this Spring (Class of 2022), Jonathan exemplifies what it means to be a Golden Bear, as well as  the incredible diversity of Letters and Science and the University as a whole.

"To help you engage with these meaningful recognitions throughout January and February, we’ve compiled virtual events at all UC campuses relating to contemporary and historic Black culture, as well as social justice. All events included below are free and accessible to students, faculty and staff at all locations."

Being launched in phases, the Berkeley Discovery Initiative aims to quickly draw students eager for a discovery experience into a rich ecosystem of campus resources and support.

We welcome Kevin Michael Smith to the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.

Now an art collector and exhibition curator, [Alan] Templeton recently gifted UC Berkeley’s Art History/Classics Library an endowment for its fine arts collection, allowing the library to support journeys to other worlds and perspectives for decades to come.

"Critical thinking, on the other hand, is a permanent asset. A knowledge of history is a permanent asset. Skill in a language is a permanent asset. The liberal arts are the edge that students are looking for, the best foundation for a successful career in the finance industry."

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2020 was a fruitful year for conspiracy theories: QAnon gained followers, COVID-19 misinformation proliferated in viral YouTube videos, and in November, President Trump helped proliferate the entirely false narrative that the election he’d lost was, in fact, stolen. 

How the Arts & Humanities are providing med students with critical communication skills.

Liberal Arts hiring is set to shoot up in 2020.

International banks want their new hires to have liberal arts backgrounds.

The art of narrative economics requires humanities majors.

Rafael Campo, MD, combines medicine and poetry to have "two ways of knowing about the human experience."

Does Berkeley realize the value of its humanities programs as much as the rest of the world does?