Sharon Mueller, the assistant dean of advising in the College of Letters & Science, has announced her retirement after 35 years in the UC Berkeley advising community. Mueller first ventured into the world of undergraduate advising when she applied for a student position with the College of Chemistry Undergraduate Advising Office in 1991, and she sees her current position as “the culmination of [her] career,” saying, “It seemed that every role I had on campus led me to this one,” making her retirement from the position a fitting journey’s end.
By UC Berkeley Division of Equity and Inclusion Staff
Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) Academic Achievement Counselor How long have you been at Berkeley?
I have been a professional staff member at UC Berkeley since July 2023, when I joined the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP)(link is external) as an Academic Achievement Counselor. Beforehand, I started my academic journey at Berkeley in the Fall of 2017 as a freshman and graduated in the Summer of 2021 with a degree in Social Welfare and Chicano Studies.
Natural disasters are becoming an everyday threat in the United States. But the consequences extend far beyond immediate damages. From wildfires to floods, climate change is harming the systems that protect homeowners and renters.
Several Berkeley Social Sciences researchers gathered at the Social Science Matrix recently for a panel discussion to examine how climate change, urban planning and insurance instability are currently reshaping the nation’s housing landscape.
The L&S Staff Achievement Awards, now in its second year, recognize and celebrate outstanding staff members in the College of Letters & Science. Awardees are selected for their exceptional commitment to the College’s shared mission of teaching, research, and public service. Each of these individuals has excelled in areas such as collaboration, goal accomplishment, inclusion & belonging, innovation, and mastery of their work.
We are deeply grateful to our 2025 recipients for their remarkable contributions to the College and to the University. Their...
Since 2014, Lin Lin has served as a computational mathematician in the Mathematics Department here at UC Berkeley, though he might also be a quantum chemist in disguise. By combining insights from both fields, he is interested in designing new algorithms that harness the power of quantum computers to tackle challenging problems in quantum chemistry and scientific computing more broadly.
Showing early on the tenacity we come to expect in successful scientists, Lin sought out difficult problems when he went from small-town eastern China to Peking University for...
Meet ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) leadership at UC Berkeley: CAPT Randy Van Rossum, Lt Col Jeff Fyffe, and LTC Aaron Elliott. Together, they prepare students from Berkeley and the San Francisco Bay Area to become leaders and future military officers.
UC Berkeley History Professor Carlos Noreña first came to Berkeley as a student in 1988, where he developed a lifelong fascination with Mediterranean antiquity. After earning his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania and teaching at Yale in the Department of Classics, he returned to Berkeley, where he has spent the past two decades sharing his passion for Roman history with students.
Noreña’s research encompasses Roman history, geography and material cultures. He is currently working on a book about Roman imperialism, a series of articles on...
UC Berkeley Geography Professor Kurt Cuffey digs deep—literally—to explore the important layers beneath glaciers’ beauty. Each crevice reveals something different about our environment and the growing concern of climate change.
As a professor who focuses on earth and planetary science, Cuffey’s research addresses climate feedback loops, a process in which initial global warming causes the melting of ice—darkening the planet surface—and causing further warming. In particular, his research showed how carbon dioxide and global temperature over a...
Now available to all students, faculty, staff and alumni, the class features lectures and discussions with top UC Berkeley scholars and offers suggestions on navigating especially challenging conversations during polarized times.
Amir Rafiei has long known that some topics can be divisive. But he hadn’t realized how his own actions may have caused divides in his seemingly neutral hobby of filmmaking.
Sometimes he’d feel “locked in” with his own thoughts and ideas. He’d stop listening to what his collaborators were saying about shot techniques or narrative structures...
