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Berkeley Brainwaves: Michael Larkin on AI in Humanities

October 22, 2024
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Peregrine Issue 1 Release Party and Contributor Celebration

October 17, 2024

Peregrine is UC Berkeley's newest undergraduate student literature journal. The first issue will be releasing soon online and hard copies in December on Amazon.

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Dacher Keltner, Berkeley Writers at Work

September 3, 2024

Dacher Keltner, Professor of Psychology, will be the featured writer in the Fall 2024 Berkeley Writers at Work series. The event will take place on Tuesday, October 29, from noon to 1:30 pm in the Morrison Library, 101 Main Library, on the UC Berkeley campus.

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College Writing Programs Staff and Faculty, 2024

Welcome to College Writing Programs

Please explore our site to find out about our amazing faculty, a group that includes essayists, novelists, poets, journalists, academic writers, translators, playwrights, and more. You can also learn about our different programs, such as the Chiang Research Festival, Berkeley Writers at Work, or the Summer Reading List. Most importantly, you can discover how we help students at all levels write and communicate. If you don’t find what you are looking for here, please be sure to contact us. - Maggie Sokolik

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Summer Reading List

We invite you to peruse the latest edition of the UC Berkeley Summer Reading List for New Students.

Berkeley Writers at Work

The Berkeley Writers at Work series was begun in 1997 as a forum for campus writers of note to discuss their writing process.

Chiang Research Festival

The Chiang Research Festival is a celebration of student research, giving students the opportunity to present their research to an audience of peers and develop an academic community larger and richer than any one classroom. 

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