Dana Vollmer

In this special joint meet, the Bears raced both USC and UCLA twice. Styled after the Pac-12 championship meet, this arduous weekend opened and closed with the Bears on top.

After a record-breaking season in which she became the first woman in history to break the 21-second barrier during the 50-yard freestyle event in Minnesota, it is no surprise that Cal senior Abbey Weitzeil is the recipient of the 2020 Honda Sport Award for swimming.

While Cal’s performance that afternoon may have gone down as a loss in a stat book, it was a victory for the world of sports.

UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ is set to give the keynote speech at the 2017 Winter Commencement on Sunday, Dec. 17.

Maz Jobrani was so excited to be invited to give a speech at the campus’s spring 2017 commencement ceremony that he accepted the offer right away — but as the date approached, he “began to lose sleep.”

When UC Berkeley’s winter graduating class of 2016 gathers for commencement next month at Haas Pavilion, the campus hopes to add a little extra gold to the sea of students in blue and yellow.