Mark your calendars to celebrate a new class of graduating Bears! Winter (Commencement) is coming, December 20, 2025! #UCBerkeley #CalGrad #Commencement

Reminder: nominations for the Achievement Awards close TOMORROW! Learn more and nominate a Bear for an award: gobears.me/3CXGy3d

Came across a familiar tower at the Oakland Airport! Did you catch the UC Berkeley ad on your travels? It’s on display for the rest of the month.

Amid surging student interest in audio technology in a time of rapid technological change and profound uncertainty, the co-directors of the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies have many plans and aspirations for the center. gobears.me/4oqFrfn

How Berkeley changed everything for John Cho — from landing his first role to discovering what it means to be Asian American. news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/04/t...

There’s a famous quote attributed to the eminent scientist Richard Feynman: “What I cannot create, I do not understand.”  Those eight words are a driving force for Patrick Shih, an associate professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley.

Bears in costume 🥸 Happy Caloween! 🎃

Two Nobel Prizes in one week. Research in chemistry, physics, AI and engineering that is regularly inspiring startups to solve the world’s most pressing problems. UC Berkeley ranked No. 1 for three straight years in startups founded, surpassing Stanford, Harvard and MIT.

Andrew Dillin is a professor of immunology and molecular medicine in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology. In his spare time, he is forming a new Center for Unmet, Rare and Emerging Diseases (CURED) that aims to discover cures other organizations are not pursuing. gobears.me/47pCGn5

Welcome 🎉 to Dr. Brian TaeHyuk Keum, new faculty member in Community Health Sciences and part of the #UCBerkeley #AsianAmerican and #PacificIslander Transpacific Futures Cluster. He researches online oppression, #MentalHealth disparities, and #AAPI communities’ experiences. bit.ly/47Am4cy

Alumni Todd Roberts and Owen Kent first developed Reflex, their robotic rehabilitation device, in a UC Berkeley course. Now, six years later, they’re launching it through their company, ATDev, which aims to bring high-quality rehabilitation into the home. engineering.berkeley.edu/news/2025/10...

Omar Yaghi grew up in Amman, Jordan, where he was responsible for collecting fresh drinking water. "I learned that water is precious," he said. Those experiences laid the foundation for his work developing MOFs that have revolutionized chemistry, and earned him the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

As the curator of UC Berkeley’s Salz Collection of Stringed Instruments, Carla Shapreau traces the rich histories of treasured, centuries-old violins and connects them to the next generation of musicians. news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/17/t...

By partnering with the community, UC Berkeley researchers conducted a sweeping survey of California farmworkers on their experience working during wildfires. news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/20/m...

At Philomathia Day last week, @berkeleyhaas.bsky.social Professor Jonathan Weigel was honored as the 2025 Philomathia Prize recipient. His research and work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo aims to reimagine state building in developing countries. Congratulations, Professor Weigel!

Edward Miguel, the son of immigrants from Uruguay and Poland, knew early on that his life in the U.S. was different from his family around the world.  As faculty co-director of @cega-uc.bsky.social and a professor of economics, he’s figuring out how to improve the lives the poorest people on earth.

In case you missed it, two bears were spotted in the New York Times on Sunday. Proud to celebrate John Clarke and Omar Yaghi, our newest Nobel laureates whose work demonstrates the power of fundamental research. Congratulations to these extraordinary scientists!

A story on the panel discussion I hosted during Homecoming weekend. Thank you to professors Ana Claudia Arias and Ken Goldberg; and alum Marco Lobba for joining me at this wonderful event! news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/06/c...

Missed out on #CalHC because you were on Berkeley Time? Check out the Homecoming playlist for lecture recordings and other fun stuff: bit.ly/4nR6HmE

ICYMI, professor emeritus John Clarke shared the Nobel Prize in physics with John Martinis and Michel Devoret, who worked alongside Clarke at Cal. In chemistry, Professor Omar Yaghi was recognized for developing metal-organic frameworks. Yaghi is our 28th faculty member who has won a Nobel Prize.

A champagne toast, remarks and media were waiting for Professor Omar Yaghi as he returned to campus today after his Nobel Prize win on Wednesday. 🎉 @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @chancellorlyons.bsky.social @berkeleyinspire.bsky.social @berkeleycdss.bsky.social

CA Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed a bill encouraging quantum innovation, positioning the UC Berkeley campus as a leader in the race to establish California and the Bay Area as a center of an emerging economy. news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/03/g...

In recent rankings, @timeshighered.bsky.social ranked Berkeley as the #1 public university in the U.S. This adds to a remarkable run: Campus has also recently been named the #1 public university in the U.S. by @usnews.com, @thewallstreet.bsky.social & @forbes.com. news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/08/u...

A $6 million gift from Bob and Colleen Haas to establish the Thelton E. Henderson ’62 Chair in Civil Rights Law was featured on @jbhe.com as a gift of particular interest to African Americans in higher education. https://bit.ly/4qgxVoC #UCBerkeleyLaw

Teresa Puthussery, a UC Berkeley vision scientist whose insights into the retina could one day help those with vision loss regain their sight, has been named a 2025 MacArthur “genius” Fellow. news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/08/v...

Congratulations to Omar Yaghi, a Jordanian-American chemist at UC Berkeley, who was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry today, sharing it with Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University, Japan. news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/08/u...

John Clarke, UC Berkeley emeritus professor, has been awarded the 2025 #NobelPrize in #Physics. The @nobelprize.bsky.social committee honored Clarke "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit." news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/07/j...

Happy Homecoming! #CalHC Check out the schedule at homecoming.berkeley.edu/app for everything going on this weekend. We’ll see you around campus! 🤩

The UC Berkeley community is filled with people pushing the edges of what's possible, and the university honors them each year with the Achievement Awards. Co-presented by the UC Berkeley Foundation and the Cal Alumni Association, nominations are open until Nov. 7. gobears.me/3CXGy3d

It’s not déjà vu, it’s a fact! For the second year in a row, UC Berkeley has been ranked the #1 public school in the U.S. by @wsj.com’s 2026 Best Colleges list.

Assistant Professor Jonathan Weigel will be honored as the 2025 Philomathia Prize recipient at Philomathia Day on Oct. 15. His research focuses on seeing how a fragile state can build its capacity to better serve its citizens. Learn more: https://gather.berkeley.edu/event/philomathia-day/

Just Doe things. 📚 Photo credit: Keegan Houser

The complete guide to all things Homecoming is now available! From event info to discounts you can get over the weekend, check out the guide on the Cal Events app: homecoming.berkeley.edu/app #CalHC #BerkeleyTime

Long Le-Khac, an assistant professor of ethnic studies at UC Berkeley, has published a 1,900-entry dataset that he hopes will be used to investigate which works are discussed as “Asian American” in scholarly circles — and who that leaves out. news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/16/w...

Since 2019, when the NCAA launched the transfer portal, Cal Athletics has seen an increase in new team members who began their college careers elsewhere. A new $1 million gift from Deborah Loker Hicks ’72 and her husband, Robin ’69, is paving the way for a smoother transition. gobears.me/46IQh8S

🚀SkyDeck’s Batch 20 Demo Day was a milestone celebration! 19 #startups pitched bold ideas in AI, biotech, security & more to #SiliconValley investors. 🌙After, Demo Night’s exclusive gatherings were a hit, incl. a panel w/ Prof. Ion Stoica (co-founder Databricks & Anyscale). #Innovation #UCBerkeley

Dacher Keltner, a UC Berkeley distinguished professor of psychology who has led the discipline’s study of human emotion, power and the concept of awe, was honored this month with a lifetime achievement award from the Association for Psychological Science. news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/22/d...

UC Berkeley is the #1 public university in the country, according to recent 2026 @usnews.com rankings. This is the 16th time over the past two decades that Berkeley has claimed the top spot in the annual U.S. News Best Colleges rankings.✨🐻 news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/22/u...

Austin Whitney was 18 when a car accident left him paralyzed from the waist down. When he stood out of his wheelchair and walked across the stage at his UC Berkeley graduation thousands in the crowd stood alongside him in thunderous applause.

Good news: #CalHC registration has been extended to Sept 24! This is your sign to register ✨ Can’t make it in person, but don’t want to miss out? Sign up for a FREE virtual class pass and get access to all of our lectures and learning opportunities online 🙂‍↕️ homecoming.berkeley.edu #BerkeleyTime

Thank you for joining us in celebrating Oski’s B-day Bear-a-thon! This year, over 1,400 people participated with us to celebrate his birthday, and we raised over $294,000! On behalf of Oski and the entire Cal community, thank you from the bottom of our golden hearts! 💛 #UCBerkeley #OskiBday

Cancer is a personal disease. Nearly 2 in 5 people in the U.S. will develop cancer over the course of their lifetime, meaning almost everyone knows someone who has fought it. Until the discovery of immunotherapy, cancer treatments were crude tools with painful side effects.

Oski’s B-day Bear-a-thon is ON NOW! For the next three days, make Oski’s birthday wish come true by helping all Cal students feel at home. Join the Bear-a-thon celebration now: givingday.berkeley.edu/oski2025 #UCBerkeley #OskiBday

From September 17-19, celebrate Oski’s 84th birthday with us at Oski’s B-day Bear-a-thon! 🐻 Oski’s birthday wish is to help all Cal students feel at home on campus, and this three-day fundraiser does just that! Learn more at givingday.berkeley.edu/oski2025 #OskiBday

Reminder: Registration for Homecoming ends next week, on September 19! Don't register on Berkeley Time — get your plans set for the weekend! #CalHC #BerkeleyTime

Known as the Campanile, UC Berkeley's Sather Tower (named after Jane K. Sather) was designed by John Galen Howard as part of an architectural plan to give the university a unique look. At 307 feet tall, it's the second-tallest freestanding clock and bell tower in the world.

“Berkeley helped me think about what a life of learning and ideas would look like. And I chose an academic career, not because I saw it when I got here, but because the campus helped me to see it while I was here,” said Chancellor Lyons. 🔗 Catch his interview on KALX: bit.ly/4npFTJC

The nomination deadline for the 2026 award has been extended to November 30, 2025! Nominate an influential alum for this prestigious honor:

Professor Hany Farid is one of the world’s leading experts on digital forensics, human perception and “deepfake” images in politics. Watch as he discusses how AI actually works, how to spot the fake stuff online and what the future holds. www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...