Campus News

In 2021, when Sara Guyer became dean of arts and humanities for the College of Letters and Science, it was a time of profound uncertainty nationwide for higher education — and for the humanities, in particular. To this day, university leaders across the nation continue to grapple with financial pressures, declining enrollment, and post-pandemic disruption by cutting costs, eliminating programs, and adopting other austerity measures.

But Guyer, who was reappointed today for a second five-year term as dean, has refused contraction, focusing instead on investment,...

The Division of Arts & Humanities at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce Fumi Okiji as the new Director of the Arts Research Center (ARC), starting July 1, 2026.

Okiji is a performer and theorist whose work moves across Black studies, critical theory, and sound and music studies. Her first book, Jazz as Critique: Adorno and Black Expression Revisited (Stanford, 2018), reconsiders the critical potential of art through an encounter between Theodor Adorno and traditions of Black creative music. Her new book, Billie's Bent Elbow: Exorbitance, Intimacy and a...

Mathematician Yunqing Tang and physicist Benjamin Safdi were honored for their early career contributions.

Two young UC Berkeley faculty members, Yunqing Tang of mathematics and Benjamin Safdi of physics, are among the winners of this year’s New Horizons Prizes, awarded annually by the Breakthrough Foundation to early-career scientists.

The announcement was made Saturday, April 18, at a gala awards ceremony for...

As the ballet begins its April 17-19 run at Cal Performances, UC Berkeley scholar Linda Rugg unpacks the surreal Scandinavian rituals and rural history featured in the production.

As the days stretch toward the summer solstice — the longest day of the year — Cal Performances is presenting the Joffrey Ballet’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, an original production by acclaimed Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman that dives headlong into the surreal,...