We did it! We survived another year at Berkeley (first year for some of us) and managed to make it to the fabled, promised land – summer. Congratulations to all of our graduating seniors that are officially joining the alumni family. Regardless of where you go or what school color you don in graduate school, [...]

“But that’s the challenge – to change the system more than it changes you.” ― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals This past Sunday (Earth Day- April 22nd), I inadvertently found myself in a protest for food sovereignty. Essentially, “food sovereignty” means the right for all people to have guaranteed [...]

On Thursday, April 26, Berkeley PBL will host NOVUM, an interdisciplinary TED-like event meant to be a celebration of knowledge. As the tagline suggests, the event will bring students “a new look at yourself, society and the world.” PBL president William Yan, a sophomore majoring in business and statistics, explained that the name “NOVUM” comes [...]

Coming out of high school, I thought I had it all figured out. Sure, I had accepted that college was going to be different from what I was used to, but I honestly didn’t think it was going to be that hard. Needless to say, I was sorely mistaken. With my first year at Berkeley [...]

  40 years ago, the degradation of our planet was largely ignored. With Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the Santa Barbara oil spill, and an active protest culture, the externalities of our industrial capitalist society were publically questioned for the very first time. Taking advantage of this public interest, Senator Gaylord Nelson organized the first Earth [...]

Although the Fukushima disaster put quite the damper on the growth of nuclear energy around the world, I still believe that nuclear power systems are going to be a crucial component in any future energy portfolio.  And the White House seems to share this view.  The Department of Energy has recently opened up $450 million [...]