University of California, Berkeley
Public university in Berkeley
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| 2025 | Ranked as the highest-ranking public school and 8th overall in The Wall Street Journal/College Pulse rankings. |
| March 21 2025 | Patch #486 released by volunteer maintainers, continuing updates for 2.11BSD in the 21st century. |
| March 14 2025 | Maintenance update patch #485 released by volunteer maintainers for 2.11BSD. |
| March 7 2025 | Release of patch #483 for 2.11BSD by volunteer maintainers, continuing the software's long-term maintenance. |
| 2024 | University of California, Berkeley joined the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). |
| 2024 | Ranked 10th overall in the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR), recognized as the top public university in the United States based on quality of education, alumni employment, faculty quality, publications, influence, and citations. |
| 2024 | Richard Lyons assumes the role of Chancellor of UC Berkeley, continuing the institution's leadership succession. |
| 2023 | Named the highest-ranking public school and 5th overall in Forbes' America's Top Colleges list. |
| 2023 | Tied for top public school and 15th overall in the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking. |
| December 31 2023 | The 'Light the Way' fundraising campaign concluded, successfully raising over $6.2 billion. |
| 2022 | Total enrollment reached 45,745, with 32,831 undergraduate and 12,914 graduate students. Women comprised 56% of undergraduates and 49% of graduate and professional students. |
| 2022 | The university broke its previous fundraising record, raising over $1.2 billion in gifts and pledges. |
| 2022 | Carolyn R. Bertozzi wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry |
| August 2022 | Editorial Board for the Berkeley Political Review established for the 2022-2023 academic year, with Adena Ajike and Juliette Lovell serving as Editors in Chief. |
| March 14 2022 | Governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law, effectively removing the enrollment limitations on the university. |
| March 11 2022 | State legislators proposed a bill to change CEQA to exempt the university from enrollment restrictions. |
| March 3 2022 | The California Supreme Court ruled in favor of residents, mandating that the university freeze admission rates at 2020-2021 levels due to infrastructure concerns. |
| 2021 | Renee Chow returns as Dean, leading the college from 2021 to 2026. |
| 2021 | Paul Alivisatos became President of the University of Chicago. |
| 2021 | Suchir Balaji graduates with a B.A. and later becomes a whistleblower after working at OpenAI from 2020 to 2024, helping to organize internet data used in developing ChatGPT |
| 2021 | Berkeley began test-blind admissions, eliminating SAT and ACT scores from the application process. |
| 2021 | Federal funding for campus research and development exceeded $1 billion. |
| 2021 | The original museum building, now seismically retrofitted, reopened as the Bakar BioEnginuity Hub, an incubator for biotechnology start-ups, named Woo Hon Fai Hall. |
| 2021 | The museum received a gift of 15 significant works on paper from the Richard and Mary L. Gray Collection. |
| August 2021 | A Superior Court of Alameda County judge ruled in favor of Berkeley residents who filed a lawsuit alleging the university's expanding enrollment violated the California Environmental Quality Act. |
| 2020 | Suchir Balaji begins working at OpenAI, later becoming a whistleblower who helped organize internet data used to build ChatGPT. |
| 2020 | Vishaan Chakrabarti becomes Dean for a brief period. |
| 2020 | Darryll Pines became President of the University of Maryland, College Park. |
| 2020 | Professor Gordon Rausser donated $50 million to the University of California, Berkeley. |
| 2020 | Berkeley set a fundraising record by receiving over $1 billion in gifts and pledges for the fiscal year. |
| 2020 | An anonymous donor pledged $252 million to fund a new center for computing and data science, significantly boosting the university's technological research infrastructure. |
| 2020 | Yahya Abdul-Mateen II won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series |
| 2020 | BAMPFA presented 'Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective', featuring works from the Eli Leon Collection. |
| August 2020 | Julie Rodrigues Widholm succeeded Lawrence Rinder as Director of the museum. |
| 2019 | Renee Chow serves as Acting Dean for one year. |
| 2019 | Ranked fourth in enrollment of National Merit $2,500 Scholarship recipients, with 132 scholars. |
| 2019 | Darrin Bell wins the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, Alexandra Berzon wins for National Reporting, and Stephen Hobbs wins for Public Service |
| 2019 | The museum received a bequest of the Eli Leon Collection, consisting of almost 3,000 works by African-American quilt makers. |
| July 25 2019 | Berkeley was removed from the U.S. News Best Colleges Ranking for misreporting alumni giving statistics, having incorrectly overstated data since at least 2014. |
| March 2019 | BAMPFA held a major retrospective of Hans Hofmann's work in March. |
| 2018 | Xiang Zhang became President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong. |
| 2018 | UC Berkeley awarded 8,725 bachelor's degrees, 3,286 master's or professional degrees, and 1,272 doctoral degrees during the academic year. |
| 2018 | Frances H. Arnold wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the directed evolution of enzymes |
| 2018 | The Cal Band led the Warriors Victory Parade in downtown Oakland after the Golden State Warriors' win over the Cleveland Cavaliers. |
| June 2018 | Robert Calonico retired as the director of the University of California Marching Band after a long tenure. |
| 2017 | UC Berkeley was ranked 9th largest contributor to papers published in 82 leading journals by the Nature Index. |
| 2017 | Carol T. Christ becomes Chancellor of UC Berkeley, marking a notable leadership transition. |
| 2017 | Barry Barish wins the Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and gravitational wave observation |
| 2016 | Viet Thanh Nguyen wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel 'The Sympathizer' |
| 2016 | The band played alongside Coldplay, Beyoncé, and Bruno Mars in the Super Bowl 50 halftime show. |
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