UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism produces some of the top talent in reporting today—and recent grads swept this year’s journalism Pulitzer Prizes. Read more about them: bit.ly/3WGPL9H ✍️: H.J. Valerio 🎨: Heather Gatley

For her photography thesis project, Sophia Cutino, M.J. ‘26 embedded with a group of army ROTC cadets this spring as they learned how to be warfighters—in the Berkeley hills. Read more about Cutino’s project: bit.ly/4sldat5 ✍️: Nathalia Alcantara 📷: Sophia Cutino

Congrats to Catherine Breed ‘15 for completing her 900-mile swim down the coast of California! Read our Summer ‘26 profile of Breed: bit.ly/3Wjdv3A ✍️: Chris Ballard 📷: Lauren Segal, Benjamin Fanjoy

This month, we asked Berkeley students about their opinions on AI inside and outside the classroom. Tell us your thoughts on AI use in the academy. And read Nathalia Alcantara’s feature on how Berkeley professors and students are adapting to AI: bit.ly/4rQ0MRI

For our latest episode of The Edge podcast, Berkeley sociologists G. Cristina Mora and Tianna S. Paschel discuss their new book, Normalizing Inequality, which dives into the exceptional lens with which many Californians view their lives. Full episode: bit.ly/47V90Pf

When you send an email, your words travel to cell towers through the air as invisible radio waves. But after that, where does it go? Read Pat Joseph’s illustrated feature about the undersea infrastructure that undergirds the internet: alumni.berkeley.edu/californ… 🎨: Michael Byers

For American history professor Mark Brilliant, increased AI use among his students has meant resurrecting an age-old technology: the Blue Book. Read Nathalia Alcantara’s feature on how Berkeley professors and students are adapting to AI: bit.ly/4rQ0MRI

In his Fall 2026 editor’s note, editor-in-chief Pat Joseph reflects on how technology is changing higher education and asks Claude to chime in. Read the full note: bit.ly/4zbfHZ5

“Equity” and “minimize civilian casualties” were among the keywords federal agencies used to mark research grants for termination, according to Berkeley Law professor Claudia Polsky. Watch the full California Live! interview: bit.ly/4ynG7Hb

Eighty-five years ago in September 1941, Oski was born. Learn how Oski started out as a cartoon and evolved into the bear who dances in Memorial Stadium. Read Oski’s full story: bit.ly/3ZR5zFs

New issue! Blue book sales at the Cal Student Store are up by 80 percent over the last two years. AI is changing how students learn, how professors teach, and even how exams are written. For our fall 2026 issue, we look at classrooms to see what’s changing alumni.berkeley.edu/issue/20…

What goes into making an Emmy-award-winning show? Production Designer Nina Ruscio speaks about her work on The Pitt: “There’s not a minute that’s not a design inspiration for me.... Even the ugly is beautiful.” Full interview: bit.ly/4gSDqHl

Join us next Thursday, Sept. 17, at @BAMPFA for a live conversation with Berkeley Law’s Claudia Polsky, whose lawsuit against the Trump administration has restored nearly $1 billion in research funding for UC scientists: bit.ly/4xirm8v

Man on Fire, Netflix’s newest action-thriller series, is exciting. Intense. Well-written. But the best part is John Creasy, and his performance by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II ’11. Read about it and more works by Berkeley alumni and faculty. bit.ly/4yprVx2

Private companies valued at over a billion dollars are called unicorns. Turning your startup into a unicorn is almost impossible, but Berkeley graduates are responsible for nearly 80 of them. Here are just six, all founded by CS or EECS alums: bit.ly/4xFIvIQ

The Berkeley International Office suspended its course credit CPT program last week, potentially leaving thousands of international students unable to take internships. Read about the unique challenges they face in Cameron Scott’s 2013 piece: bit.ly/4yc2leE

Cal’s Alum of the Year Award was added to Amy Tan’s list of achievements this year. “I’m honored, I’m thankful to the person who nominated me, the people who voted,” she said: bit.ly/46t85op

Join the Cal Alumni Association and California magazine on Sept. 17 at @BAMPFA for a conversation with Berkeley Law’s Claudia Polsky, whose lawsuit has restored nearly $1 billion in research funding for UC scientists. 🎟️ Get your tickets: eventbrite.com/e/fighting-ba…

Every first Thursday for thirty years, some of the greatest living poets—Czesław Miłosz, Jorie Graham, Tess Gallagher, and more—have read their work aloud to Cal students and families in the beautiful Morrison Library over lunch. Read the full story: alumni.berkeley.edu/californ…

After a decade in the making, ESCAPADE, NASA’s first dual-satellite mission to another planet, and the first planetary mission led by UC Berkeley, successfully made it into space last year: bit.ly/4pe2kDZ