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Technological advancements and ethical debates dominate the media’s coverage of artificial intelligence. AI pioneer and 1966 Cal alum Sarah Douglas asks the sort of big questions — on knowledge, meaning, and consciousness — that are often overlooked by companies and can only be answered...Read more about Philosophy alum Sarah Douglas on her lifelong effort to program computers to understand meaning

UC Berkeley’s music program is booming, with the fastest-growing major on campus. Thanks to a newly retooled curriculum...Read more about Music department seeks to expand private lessons to keep up with student demand

Ask people what...Read more about What makes HBO’s ‘The Pitt’ feel so real? Two UC Berkeley alums who bring the show to life explain

On the back, pressed into the clay more than 2,000 years ago, was a fingerprint — a trace of the maker’s hand...Read more about When the past leaves fingerprints: Students unearth ancient Italian artifacts in a new Etruscan exhibit at the UC Berkeley Library

In order to truly experience the poetry of Emily Dickinson, it must...Read more about How Emily Dickinson’s musical poetry pushes us to live more expansively

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, a little-known era of global art history was born, sparked by the arrival of...Read more about In 18th‑century China, these artists made Europeans’ portraits. Only now are their identities emerging.

Osargue Otebele is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film and Media. Her research mainly focuses on Nigerian art and film from 1960 to 2000. She is the Professor Norman Jacobson Memorial Fellow through the Townsend Center for Humanities dissertation fellowship. She is also a...Read more about Learning to Read What We Watch: Film, Media, and Academic Life with Osarugue Otebele

It’s easy to forget that the cloud isn’t an amorphous ball of fluff, says UC Berkeley Professor...Read more about This Berkeley professor is exposing the hidden physical toll of our digital world

When Pylos: Warrior-Princes of Ancient Greece opened at the Getty Villa Museum last summer, visitors encountered one of the most extraordinary archaeological stories of the last half century: the discovery of the Griffin Warrior grave and the renewed...Read more about Unearthing Pylos: Berkeley Students Engage a Monumental Bronze Age Discovery, Now on View at the Getty Villa

Think of the lyrics of your favorite pop song. Are they like...Read more about From Bob Dylan to Ice Cube: Mapping 60 years of storytelling in pop lyrics

Minoo Moallem was getting her master’s degree at Tehran University when the Iranian revolution swept the country. At first, she enjoyed new civil liberties, but as those were curtailed, Moallem left to pursue her Ph.D. abroad.

Moallem is now a professor of gender and women’s...Read more about The opportunities and complexities of studying Iran in 21st century America

Los Angeles-based artist Sarah Cain never plans her works. To plan means they would be less alive, less real, less her...Read more about Come in, sit, stay a while: How alum Sarah Cain invites visitors into her paintings

On October 5 and 6, 2025, Flemish Minister-President Matthias Diependaele visited UC Berkeley, highlighting more than half a century of cultural, academic, and diplomatic ties between Flanders and the university. His visit underscored the enduring strength of Dutch and Flemish...Read more about Flemish Minister-President Matthias Diependaele Visits UC Berkeley: Celebrating a Historic Partnership in Dutch and Flemish Studies

Kelly Chuang is a third-year English and Rhetoric double major and a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. She has a strong interest in speculative fiction, the uncanny, and narratology, and she jokes that she can connect almost anything she reads back to cyborgs, Carl Sagan’s Contact, or...Read more about Seeing Differently: Kelly Chuang on Vision, Speculation, and Unreliable Narrators

On Nov. 11 and 12, the Korean Experimental Music Festival made a stop at UC Berkeley for four concerts, premiering compositions by students and faculty alike from UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz and Stanford University. Musicians from the South Korean National Gugak Center joined forces...Read more about Korean Experimental Music Festival premieres new faculty, grad student compositions

In the early 20th century, prominent figures in psychology, psychiatry and pediatrics in the U.S. began to...Read more about Berkeley Talks: The complicated role of media in motherhood

Since Sara Guyer became dean of UC Berkeley’s Division of Arts & Humanities in 2021, she has served as a spokesperson for the discipline on a global scale. She directed the World Humanities Report...Read more about "The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees

Allende, who is now 83 years old, is from Chile. She was forced into exile after the military coup and subsequent assassination of her uncle...Read more about Renowned author Isabel Allende makes rare public appearance at UC Berkeley

I remember being floored by John Cho (BA ‘96, English) in Justin Lin’s 2002 indie thriller Better Luck Tomorrow, which was based on a true story near where I grew up in...Read more about Then / Now / Next: Actor John Cho on finding independence and identity at UC Berkeley

Over the summer, Kelly Ko loved taking the train to her internship in Taipei. The beautiful music that heralded its arrival was a refreshing change from BART’s jarring approach. At work, her managers would frequently take her out to lunch. Ko, who grew up speaking English and Cantonese...Read more about Pan Scholars help extend UC Berkeley’s global reach to Taiwan