University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley is a public institution that was founded in 1868. In the 2026 edition of Best Colleges, University of California, Berkeley is ranked No. #15 in National Universities ...
University of California

Berkeley's music boom

Amber Cheng never expected music to be part of her adult life. Growing up in Taiwan, she had enjoyed childhood violin lessons, but when she applied to universities to study architecture, she assumed ...
University of California

Advisory committee named for UC Berkeley chancellor search

University of California President Michael V. Drake, M.D., has announced the formation of a search advisory committee of university faculty, staff, students, alumni and foundation representatives to ...
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Berkeley: University Announces New Head Of Berkeley Space Center

University of California, Berkeley announced Wednesday it has appointed a new leader to helm the Berkeley Space Center at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View. Victoria Coleman was tapped to ...
Berkeley University of California

Free Speech at UC Berkeley

Thanks to the thousands who protested here in 1964, universities nationwide began to ensure students’ rights to free political speech. Inspired in part by the Civil Rights Movement, those protests ...
Berkeley University of California

Free Speech Movement Bios

Mario Savio was born in New York City and graduated at the top of his high school class. He attended Manhattan College and Queens College before moving to Berkeley. In 1964 he travelled to Mississippi ...