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A changing of the guard is coming to UC Berkeley’s venerable Center for New Music and Audio Technologies. For almost four decades, the institution known as CNMAT has served musicians and producers with groundbreaking research and tools. Now, longtime leader Edmund Campion is preparing to retire and hand over the reins to co-director and fellow music professor Carmine-Emanuele Cella.

On Tuesday, March 18, the College of Letters & Science Administrative Advisory Committee (AAC) hosted a conversation between Professors David Nadler and Shannon Steen on the topic “What is Creativity?” at its second L&S Lunch and Learn convening. Moderated by Aileen Liu, Director of Curricular Engagement Initiatives, this discussion afforded L&S staff the opportunity to thoughtfully engage with the scholarship of the College and connect with their colleagues....

Eli Glickman, a senior Political Science major and Public Policy minor in the UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science from Bethesda, MD, has been named a 2025 Marshall Scholar, the university’s first since 2022. As a Marshall Scholar, Glickman will be funded for two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom. Glickman is Berkeley’s 34th recipient of the Marshall Scholarship since its inception in 1953.

“I was extremely pleased when I first learned that I had been selected as a Marshall Scholar,” Glickman shared. “The application process...

In the last hundred years, particle physicists have developed a fine-grained understanding of how the building blocks that make up the universe fit together, called the Standard Model. The concrete and steel are basic particles like protons, neutrons, and electrons, and the energies that weld them together are divided into three or four forces: strong, electromagnetic, weak, and sometimes gravity. Testing shows that the Standard Model is very accurate, but it’s not quite perfect. In building construction each trade needs to know enough about the other’s work to make the...