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Ryan and Melissa Mattson in graduation apparel

Campus & community

How two graduating siblings found their ‘second act’ at UC Berkeley

Ryan and Melissa Mattson, 36 and 40, transferred from Sacramento City College in 2023. They're thankful for the support to "pursue academic dreams, no matter the timeline."

Emily Thompson, clad in a cap and gown, holds her 2-year-old, Caspian, also wearing a small gown, while her other kid, River, stands next to her. She's smiling widely.

Arts & culture

After wilderness therapy, this graduate found her own path at UC Berkeley

Kelly Sparks, Berkeley's new vice chancellor for finance and chief financial officer, wears a black blazer and floral blouse. Her arms are crossed in front of her and she has dark-rimmed eyeglasses and shoulder-length blonde hair.

Campus news

Kelly Sparks is campus’s new vice chancellor for finance, CFO

a young child looking through two bars of the wall between the US and Mexico

People

To understand immigration today, a UC Berkeley sociologist documented 200 personal stories

A man in his 70s wearing a Stone Harbor hoodie and a Carleton College baseball cap stands in front of a flowering tree and wood-paneled windows

After a 50-year leave of absence, returning to Berkeley’s School of Journalism

Jake Merioles, a student painter, stands with his back to the camera at an easel in Memorial Glade, working on a painting of University Library. The Campanile is sticking up over the top of the library and the sky is blue with small white clouds. Merioles is wearing a black shirt.

Without his Friday painting sessions, Jake Merioles says, ‘I wouldn’t be the person I am today.’

A gold-tinted composite photo showing four people awarded scholarships from the Robinson International Scholars Program. Three of the people look toward the camera, while one, with her hands on her hips, looks proudly to the side

After life as refugees, these UC Berkeley students strive to tackle global problems

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A Berkeley environmental epidemiologist’s journey from Woodstock to America’s salad bowl

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Jelani Nelson uses computer science tools to replicate human thought

Forging a new path: Veteran Katie Suwalkowski on resilience, community, and mental health

A person uses a laptop with Ava's transcription tools

This company’s mission is to make the world accessible to Deaf people. It all started at Berkeley’s Big Ideas Contest

Yesenia Ochoa

‘I’m just one of millions of migrant students working hard to achieve their goals’

smiling man with glasses in a dark blue suit sitting at a desk

A Q&A with the new dean of biological sciences, Richard Harland

A portrait of Eric T. Meyer standing with his arms crossed.

Meet Eric Meyer, the new dean of Berkeley’s I School

an illustration showing firearm bullets, a city, and a community garden, as if to indicate the ways that gun violence is connected to the built environment and public policy

UC Berkeley course explores gun violence as a public health issue

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Student aims to improve AI for underserved languages and communities

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