As the top public university, UC Berkeley acts as a catalyst for transformation around the globe. Berkeley Inspire is home to uplifting, powerful stories you need to inspire, and be inspired by, your Berkeley community.
Students are an integral part of the staff at BAMPFA — welcoming visitors and helping them navigate the galleries. They also push the museum to reflect on what it’s presenting and the role it can play in their lives, learning, and society at large. Hear from four students about their involvement in the museum and how it is informing their studies, research, art-making, and view of the world.
When Dr. Eric Esrailian was a student, Berkeley felt like a large and often impersonal place. He recently made a gift to support Berkeley’s Armenian language and literature program in perpetuity and help build an academic community.
Peruse inspiring stories about people like you who have helped transform UC Berkeley.
Inspired by their daughter and UC Berkeley’s rich history in the area, Florence Wong ’93 and Andrew Haskell ’91 have endowed disability studies. The program examines the concept of disability from various social, cultural, historical, artistic, legal, and political perspectives.
Like a constellation of stars, the arts are everywhere at UC Berkeley — integrated across campus and our extraordinary breadth of research. Hear from faculty and students about what they’re teaching and creating, what sets the arts apart at Berkeley, and new opportunities for learning, creating, and performing.
Thanks to UC Berkeley’s Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP), Paris Bailey ’24 served as an assistant curator for an exhibition on Jewish arts and lives in the Muslim world. Learn about her favorite object, an embroidered tapestry.
Bhavya Joshi, a public health doctoral student, is using a community-based approach to research reproductive health in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp. Her work highlights urgent healthcare gaps and empowers communities to shape solutions.
63% of all undergraduates receive some form of financial aid
7,600+ students participated in community service
519 Hellman Fellows launching new careers
6 assistant professors named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows, among the largest cohort from any single university
