Humanities

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

Changed by a wilderness program as a teenager, student parent Emily Thompson is graduating with a bachelor’s degree in film and media this May. “The wild isn’t this daunting, unknown place,” she says. “It is all home.”

Awards

Two Berkeley professors receive prestigious Guggenheim fellowships

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Events at Berkeley

Berkeley Talks: The case for a philosophical life, with Agnes Callard and Judith Butler

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Arts & culture

Executive actions aim to reshape America’s cultural institutions. UC Berkeley scholars react

A woman on a gray background with an inset image of an armored cable going into the ocean.

Watch a professor explain the internet’s series of subsea tubes in 101 seconds

Berkeley Talks: J Finley on how Black women use sass to claim their humanity

the Ratliff family of two parents and three adult children walk in the sun

Ahead of ‘The White Lotus’ finale, Berkeley professor unpacks show’s Freudian themes and fantasies

Ethnic Studies marks its PhD program’s 40th anniversary

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Do vowels have colors? According to some with synesthesia, yes.

A wall in an art exhibition of replicas of many famous artworks, like van Gogh's Sunflowers and da Vinci's Mona Lisa

Berkeley Voices: Fakes, replicas and forgeries: What counts as art?

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How is slavery represented at American tourist sites today?

Various members of the Khmer community sit at rows of tables at a room. Many of them appear to be engaged in conversation. One wears a flower in her hair, while another is smiling serenely while wearing a fur hat.

The complex story of how the pandemic impacted the Asian American diaspora

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Watch UC Berkeley’s Executive Dean of Letters and Science explain the liberal arts in 101 seconds

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How Trump’s immigration policies compare to those of America’s past

A black and white photo of three white woman and one Black woman, all with 1960s hair and wearing white uniforms.

Meet three Black trailblazers in STEM

Sarah Gold McBride and Christine Palmer face one another at a desk, smiling at each other, conveying their close friendship

Berkeley Voices: From Victorian-era letters to Swiftie bracelets, an evolution of American friendship

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