Berkeley Voices

Most of us know by now that recreational cannabis became legal in California on Jan. 1. But there's still a lot we don't... Read more

Marriage — modernly — is seen as sort of unalloyed good, says law professor Melissa Murray. “Everyone would like to get ... Read more

Canadian author Margaret Atwood doesn't like being called a soothsayer. "Anyone who says they can predict the future is.... Read more

The peregrine falcons that first made a home on UC Berkeley's Campanile last year get a lot of attention every spring wh... Read more

Noah Whiteman, an associate professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley, has always known how to s... Read more

In 1970, when Chancellor Carol Christ joined UC Berkeley's English department as an assistant professor, only 3% of the ... Read more

When Derek Coates was 10, he found out he had a degenerative eye disease and was going to gradually lose his eyesight. O... Read more

Underground at UC Berkeley, seismic sensors capture the deep rumbles from Bay Area earthquakes. Here's what a 4.4-magnit... Read more

When Karen Denton got a job in UC Berkeley's registrar's office at 20, she had one job: to remove incompletes. "I did th... Read more

Professor Tom McEnaney, who teaches a class called “Sounding American,” says the U.S. has a long history of men criticiz... Read more

Incoming students discuss how the hit musical Hamilton has changed Broadway and inspired students to learn more about th... Read more

On October 11, 1923, three brothers — Hugh, Ray and Roy DeAutremont — boarded a Southern Pacific Railroad train called t... Read more

Every morning, Marco Lindsey wakes up in East Oakland, where he was born and raised. He puts on a suit and tie, packs hi... Read more

In 1849, a man named Abraham Holland packed up his things and left his life on the East Coast for California, in hopes t... Read more

"People know about Rosa Parks. People know about Martin Luther King Jr. And they know that it's the Montgomery bus boyco... Read more

We’re at UC Berkeley’s Campanile courtyard listening to sounds of an ancient bell that have never been heard before. It’... Read more

In 2004, Scott Zimmermann had a big idea. He had just quit the oil and gas industry — he’d been working in it for eight ... Read more

Growing up in New York City, UC Berkeley ethnic studies professor Catherine Ceniza Choy remembers seeing a lot of nurses... Read more

In the 1940s and 50s, actors in major American films, like Katharine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart, spoke with a kind of fau... Read more

When Amy Nostbakken and Nora Sadava started writing Mouthpiece six years ago, they revealed their deepest secrets to eac... Read more