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  • 3 weeks ago | alumni.berkeley.edu | Emma Silvers

    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 her instrument would fall by the wayside. “I thought, OK, maybe my violin career will end here,” says Cheng.

  • 1 month ago | alumni.berkeley.edu | Emily Wilson

    You left Cuba when you were seven. Did that have a big influence on your life and your art? I’m going to give you two contradictory answers. On the one hand, of course. It was a sense of dislocation, and we went through, as many immigrants do, a lot of challenges in Spain and then Puerto Rico, and school fights and all that. In some ways, you always feel like an outsider as an exile. It gives you that position of being an outsider looking in at things. So yes, it changed me and affected me.

  • 1 month ago | alumni.berkeley.edu | Leah Worthington

    On April 20, 2025, Catholics around the world gathered to celebrate Easter, the holiest day of the year. The following morning, Pope Francis died at age 88, ending a dozen years at the helm of the Catholic Church. Who will succeed Francis is the source of much debate and speculation—only to be determined during the upcoming papal conclave. Papal elections procedures have evolved over nearly two millennia, with some of the earliest evidence dating back to the early medieval period.

  • 1 month ago | alumni.berkeley.edu | Leah Worthington

    It’s 45 minutes until showtime at Zellerbach Hall. Half a dozen people crowd into a small corner backstage alongside a rack overflowing with lacy yellow garments, enormous sun hats, and fabric-adorned sticks as dancers rush past in various states of dress. One performer sits in the wings, carefully coating his feet in makeup; another, fully costumed, pauses to smile and address the visitors.

  • 2 months ago | alumni.berkeley.edu | Rebekah Moan |Jamie Geluz

    Presented byPaul Bryzek worked in technology consulting for seven years before returning to UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business to pursue an MBA. “I was looking for a change out of corporate America consulting,” he said. “I wanted to work at the intersection of financial success and impact to create personal fulfillment.