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After 70 Years, UC Berkeley Museum Returns Massacre Remains to Wiyot Tribe

by Emily Wilson February 7, 2022February 8, 2022

“They’ve been locked up in boxes and cabinets without having anyone to talk to and sing to them,” shares the tribal historical preservation officer of the Wiyot Tribe.

Posted inOpinion

The Asian American Community at UC Berkeley Takes a Stand

by Sugata Ray March 30, 2021April 14, 2021

There is a century-long history of political mobilization by students of color on campus.

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UC Berkeley Has Only Returned 20% of Its Native American Artifacts and Remains

by Sam Lefebvre June 17, 2020November 5, 2020

The University of California and campuses, including Berkeley, failed to comply with laws for returning stolen objects and remains, according to a new California auditor report.

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In California, Art Schools and Programs Debate How to Reopen

by Matt Stromberg May 25, 2020May 27, 2020

Hyperallergic reached out to several art schools in California to see how they are planning to address the need for social distancing while maintaining the integrity of their arts curriculums.

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UC Berkeley Uses Optical Scanning to Recover Indigenous Voices from Wax Cylinders

by Allison Meier October 11, 2017October 24, 2017

Among the wax cylinders in UC Berkeley’s Hearst Museum of Anthropology are songs and spoken-word recordings in 78 indigenous languages of California.

Posted inArt

The Snapshots of a Globe-trotting Geographer Before Globalization

by Allison Meier December 27, 2016

The UC Berkeley Department of Geography joined Flickr Commons and shared transfixing photographs from a world-traveling scientist.

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The Rise of the 20th-Century Yearbook Smile

by Allison Meier December 11, 2015December 21, 2015

With their standard formats and widespread availability, high school yearbooks represent a historical data set of 20th-century style. They also capture how our tendency to smile in photographs has intensified over time.

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Emma Goldman Papers Project Faces Uncertain Future

by Allison Meier January 30, 2015January 29, 2015

The 34-year-old Emma Goldman Papers Project is in limbo after losing its affiliation with UC Berkeley and running through its funding.

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Museums Turn to Crowdsourcing to Unlock Secrets of their Collections

by Allison Meier May 28, 2013May 30, 2013

Bugs number in the billions in natural history museums worldwide, but the information embedded in their label text that could indicate changes in climate, species, and geographic distribution has yet to be digitized and so remains inaccessible. Now a project called Calbug has teamed up with Notes from Nature to turn to crowdsourcing to unlock this data.

Posted inArt

The Curious Desert Memorials of Western China

by An Xiao March 2, 2012March 2, 2012

LOS ANGELES — Deep in western China, in the deserts of Xinjiang Province, artist Lisa Ross photographed curious and colorful memorials, and she’s showing them this month at UC Berkeley.

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