University of California, Berkeley
Public university in Berkeley
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| 2025 | Ranked as the highest-ranking public school and 8th overall in The Wall Street Journal/College Pulse rankings. |
| March 21 2025 | Patch #486 released by volunteer maintainers, continuing updates for 2.11BSD in the 21st century. |
| March 14 2025 | Maintenance update patch #485 released by volunteer maintainers for 2.11BSD. |
| March 7 2025 | Release of patch #483 for 2.11BSD by volunteer maintainers, continuing the software's long-term maintenance. |
| 2024 | A powerful storm damaged the Asian Plant Collection, toppling a colossal redwood tree and causing significant harm to rare and critically endangered plant specimens, including a Parana pine tree, a Queensland eucalyptus, and a gum-leaf cone bush from Southern Africa. |
| 2024 | Tropical house in the UC Botanical Garden was renovated, featuring tropical plants of economic value and unique specimens like the giant corpse lily Amorphophallus. |
| 2024 | In the ASUC Election, ElevateCal won the Presidency, Vice Presidency, and 7 out of 20 Senate Seats. |
| 2024 | Abigail Verino, Annabel Wang, Ayden Reading, Carlos Julian Gonzalez, China Duff, Ellen Tong, Ethan Hu, Isha Chander, Jonathan Franco, Jonathan Ngai, Justin Taylor, Kaila DuFour, Kailen Grottel-Brown, Maitri Halappa, Max Rodman, Medina Danish, Owen Knapper Jr., Shaya Keyvanfar, and Tony Ordoukhanian serving as Senators for the Associated Students of the University of California during the 2024-2025 term. |
| 2024 | University of California, Berkeley joined the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). |
| 2024 | Ranked 10th overall in the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR), recognized as the top public university in the United States based on quality of education, alumni employment, faculty quality, publications, influence, and citations. |
| 2024 | Richard Lyons assumes the role of Chancellor of UC Berkeley, continuing the institution's leadership succession. |
| 2023 | Lanah Duque, Caitlyn Guntle, Kailen Grottel-Brown, Luca Hadife, Andrea Jimenez, Jose Massuh, Ayal Meyers, Ashi Mishra, Ariel Mizrahi, Sky Montogomery, Isabel Prasad, Thin Rati-Oo, Aanya Niharika Schoetz, Christine Song, Imaan Sultan, Bianca Torres, Doty, Andy Liu, Helena Wu, and Sonia Zu served as Senators for the Associated Students of the University of California during the 2023-2024 term. |
| 2023 | Named the highest-ranking public school and 5th overall in Forbes' America's Top Colleges list. |
| 2023 | Tied for top public school and 15th overall in the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking. |
| December 31 2023 | The 'Light the Way' fundraising campaign concluded, successfully raising over $6.2 billion. |
| June 2023 | The garden successfully raised US$150,000 to repair the Japanese Pool to protect the resident newt populations. |
| 2022 | Deena Ali, Emma Centeno, Shay Cohen, Manuel Cisneros, Shrinidi Gopal, Kailen Grottel-Brown, Yasamin Hatefi, Raymond Hufnagel, Anjali Jogia-Sattar, Mahathi Kandimalla, Deborah Kim, Joshua Lee, Tyler Mahomes, Soha Manzoor, Charles Peng, Akash Ponna, Thin Rati-Oo, Carlos Vazquez, Stephanie Wong, and Megan Yao served as Senators for the Associated Students of the University of California during the 2022-2023 term. |
| 2022 | Total enrollment reached 45,745, with 32,831 undergraduate and 12,914 graduate students. Women comprised 56% of undergraduates and 49% of graduate and professional students. |
| 2022 | The university broke its previous fundraising record, raising over $1.2 billion in gifts and pledges. |
| 2022 | Carolyn R. Bertozzi wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry |
| August 2022 | Editorial Board for the Berkeley Political Review established for the 2022-2023 academic year, with Adena Ajike and Juliette Lovell serving as Editors in Chief. |
| March 14 2022 | Governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law, effectively removing the enrollment limitations on the university. |
| March 11 2022 | State legislators proposed a bill to change CEQA to exempt the university from enrollment restrictions. |
| March 3 2022 | The California Supreme Court ruled in favor of residents, mandating that the university freeze admission rates at 2020-2021 levels due to infrastructure concerns. |
| 2021 | Muz Ahmad, Amy Chen, Sam Coffey, Jason Dones, Mehnaz Grewal, Amanda Hill, Varsha Madapoosi, Sophie Morris, Adrianna Ngo, Osirus Polachart, Sammy Raucher, Ashley Rehal, Isabella Romo, Dil Sen, Elif Sensurucu, Gabbi Sharp, Jerry Xu, Griselda Vega Martinez, Stephanie Wong, and Kalli Zervas served as Senators for the Associated Students of the University of California during the 2021-2022 term. |
| 2021 | Renee Chow returns as Dean, leading the college from 2021 to 2026. |
| 2021 | Paul Alivisatos became President of the University of Chicago. |
| 2021 | Suchir Balaji graduates with a B.A. and later becomes a whistleblower after working at OpenAI from 2020 to 2024, helping to organize internet data used in developing ChatGPT |
| 2021 | Berkeley began test-blind admissions, eliminating SAT and ACT scores from the application process. |
| 2021 | Federal funding for campus research and development exceeded $1 billion. |
| 2021 | The original museum building, now seismically retrofitted, reopened as the Bakar BioEnginuity Hub, an incubator for biotechnology start-ups, named Woo Hon Fai Hall. |
| 2021 | The museum received a gift of 15 significant works on paper from the Richard and Mary L. Gray Collection. |
| August 2021 | A Superior Court of Alameda County judge ruled in favor of Berkeley residents who filed a lawsuit alleging the university's expanding enrollment violated the California Environmental Quality Act. |
| 2020 | Alexis Aguilar, Sarah Bancroft, Julia Castro, Maddy Chen, Sheena Dichoso Echano, Naomi Joy Garcia, Will Liu, Samuel Peng, Apoorva Prakash, Sahvannah Rodriguez, Michael Savides, Ruchi Shah, Ronit Sholkoff, Rebecca Soo, Ellis Spickermann, Chaka Tellem, Mateo Torrico, Aasim Yahya, Liam Will, and Rex Zhang served as Senators for the Associated Students of the University of California during the 2020-2021 term. |
| 2020 | José Huizar concludes his term as a member of the Los Angeles City Council from the 14th district. |
| 2020 | The Transfer Student Representative position appeared on the ASUC election ballot for the first time during the spring election, utilizing the single transferable vote mechanism. |
| 2020 | Suchir Balaji begins working at OpenAI, later becoming a whistleblower who helped organize internet data used to build ChatGPT. |
| 2020 | Vishaan Chakrabarti becomes Dean for a brief period. |
| 2020 | Darryll Pines became President of the University of Maryland, College Park. |
| 2020 | Professor Gordon Rausser donated $50 million to the University of California, Berkeley. |
| 2020 | Berkeley set a fundraising record by receiving over $1 billion in gifts and pledges for the fiscal year. |
| 2020 | An anonymous donor pledged $252 million to fund a new center for computing and data science, significantly boosting the university's technological research infrastructure. |
| 2020 | Yahya Abdul-Mateen II won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series |
| 2020 | BAMPFA presented 'Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective', featuring works from the Eli Leon Collection. |
| August 2020 | Julie Rodrigues Widholm succeeded Lawrence Rinder as Director of the museum. |
| 2019 | The student body passed the Transfer Remedy Act ballot proposition, establishing a new Transfer Student Representative position in the ASUC to represent the campus' growing transfer student population. |
| 2019 | Renee Chow serves as Acting Dean for one year. |
| 2019 | Ranked fourth in enrollment of National Merit $2,500 Scholarship recipients, with 132 scholars. |
| 2019 | Darrin Bell wins the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, Alexandra Berzon wins for National Reporting, and Stephen Hobbs wins for Public Service |
| 2019 | The museum received a bequest of the Eli Leon Collection, consisting of almost 3,000 works by African-American quilt makers. |
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