STEM

Finding community on campus is ‘crucial’ for the thousands of Latine and Chicanx students at UC Berkeley. While the school touts its diverse student body on flyers and campaigns, Emiliano Silva felt alone as a Mexican transfer student before joining the mariachi group.

Amidst California’s low standardized math test scores, increasing learning gaps caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and a lack of sufficient diversity in STEM, the California State Board of Education’s recent proposed curriculum framework to reform math education has garnered criticism from hundreds of educators. 

UC Berkeley and Tuskegee University announced a multi-year academic partnership, called the Berkeley-Tuskegee Data Science Initiative, Wednesday.

A joint study between UC Berkeley and Columbia University researchers demonstrated that an enzyme in cancer cells is a key part of the tumor spreading process in human pancreatic cancer.

College can be awfully suffocating. For these four integral years, we are pigeonholed into majors that supposedly define our entire personality.

Some question if the two are truly discrete; is there room for overlap despite their apparently contrasting natures?

As UC Berkeley STEM majors graduate, they enter a world where women are underrepresented. For many, this male-dominated landscape is all too familiar. 

UC Berkeley sophomore Soha Manzoor is representing Elevate Cal in her campaign for ASUC Senate in the upcoming April election.

Campus freshman Shrinidhi Gopal is running for the ASUC Senate with ElevateCal on a platform focused on basic needs and transparency.

While my accommodations haven’t made my college experience flawless, I don’t think perfection is necessary to succeed at UC Berkeley.