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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.

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As she nears graduation, ASUC President Abigail Verino is focused on ensuring that her advocacy for UC Berkeley’s most vulnerable groups remains a permanent fixture of student life.

Verino, an Ethnic Studies and Legal Studies double major, has spent her time as ASUC president expanding student-facing systems — from securing over $100,000 for multicultural student organizations to advocating for the basic needs of undocumented students. As she moves forward with her education and career, Verino hopes to apply a critical Ethnic Studies lens to...

Production designer Nina Ruscio and casting director Cathy Sandrich Gelfond dish on designing “triggering” hospital sets, casting for raw authenticity and how their time at Berkeley taught them to watch life closely, turning every detail into material for an immersive narrative.

Ask people what they love most about The Pitt, the HBO Max medical drama that debuted in 2025 and went on to sweep the Emmys, and the answer is almost always the same: It feels so real.

The show’s pace appears just like an emergency room — lively and chaotic, always in motion. Its...

A UC Berkeley theorist proposed that highly magnetized, spinning neutron stars were the power source behind superluminous supernovae. A recent supernova provided the smoking gun.

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar — a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star — and confirmed that it’s the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the cosmos.

The finding corroborates a theory proposed by a UC Berkeley physicist 16 years ago and establishes a new phenomenon in exploding stars: supernovae with a “chirp” in their light...