The College of Letters and Science in collaboration with the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship is launching the Entrepreneurial Initiative as a means to offer students key tools needed to turn ideas into practical enterprise. A new course will be offered in the fall as part of this initiative.

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Arts & Humanities Dean Janet Broughton offers her perspective on the impact of state budget cuts on language instruction programs at UC Berkeley.

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A number of faculty members in the College of Letters and Science have recently been elected to some of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies in the country.

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Leslie Chung-Lei Sheu's dogged scientific curiosity, academic success and empathy for the downtrodden have earned her the University Medal, the campus's top honor for a graduating senior.

The newly-launched Center for Interdisciplinary Bio-inspiration in Education and Research (CiBER) will encourage biologists, engineers, and others to reach across professional boundaries by studying how organisms work and move in their natural habitats. (For related articles, see Science Matters.)