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Across 19 departments and 14 research units, more than 250 faculty members study every dimension of the human experience from the ancient past to the anticipated future; they work in 80 different languages and include award-winning poets and novelists as well as practicing artists in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts. 

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A Year on Angel Island

August 23, 2022

In 2022-2023, UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design Initiative and Future Histories Lab will sponsor a series of music and dance performances, exhibitions, public conversations, and courses using Angel Island’s historic immigration station as a jumping-off point for discussion about race in America...Read more about A Year on Angel Island

Free Admission to SFMOMA for all Students, Staff, Faculty through January 2023

July 21, 2022

We’re thrilled to share that SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) will be offering free museum admission to our employees and students during the run of the upcoming...Read more about Free Admission to SFMOMA for all Students, Staff, Faculty through January 2023

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow des marie jackson: ‘Find purpose by staying centered in your passions’

June 30, 2022

"I plan to graduate in spring 2023, and my honors thesis is about language discourse and colonialism. This topic has been inspired by all the critical theory courses I have been able to take at Berkeley that have allowed me to make tangible connections between the lived realities I take with me...Read more about Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow des marie jackson: ‘Find purpose by staying centered in your passions’