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STORIES BY MADDY WEINBERG

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NOW SHOWING, CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE

Summer 2021

This year, Berkeley’s Pacific Film Archive celebrates its 50th anniversary—that is, in its physical form. While the PFA technically opened its doors in 1971, it actually came into being several years earlier, before it had any doors, born from the mind of writer Sheldon Renan.

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EARTHLY DELIGHT, CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE

Spring 2021 Issue

The UC Botanical Garden is blooming and ready for visitors. “The garden is a resource that belongs to the people of California. And it’s right at their doorstep.”

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CAMPUS REFUGE, CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE

Winter 2020 Issue

For Arlinda Ruiz, the road to higher education was not an easy one. A 45-year-old domestic violence survivor, she worried there wouldn’t be a place for her in the world of academia.

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TOXIC STRESS AND THE PANDEMIC, CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE

Winter 2020 Issue

As the pandemic rages on, a conversation about stress and coping: California Surgeon General and Berkeley alumna, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, talks long-term health impacts of the pandemic.

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ELECTION POLLS ARE ONLY 60 PERCENT ACCURATE, WHICH IS 0 PERCENT SURPRISING, CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE

October 2020 (Online)

For many Americans, Donald Trump’s 2016 victory came as a shock, especially considering how much he’d trailed Hillary Clinton in the polls. Even FiveThirtyEight founder and famed pollster Nate Silver got it wrong. But UC Berkeley business professor Don Moore thinks we should cut Silver some slack.

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ANOTHER BERKELEY BUILDING “UNNAMED” FOR ITS NAMESAKE’S CONTROVERSIAL PAST, CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE

Spring 2021 Issue

“[Kroeber’s] actions weren’t malicious, but they were flawed. Unnaming acknowledges that there was harm done.”

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FIRST LADY OF PHYSICS GETS STAMP OF APPROVAL, 

CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE

Spring 2021 Issue

Once snubbed by the Nobel Prize committee, nuclear physicist Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu is getting national recognition—from the USPS.

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MORE DIVERSITY, BETTER SCIENCE, CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE

Winter 2020 Issue

“The false dichotomy of ‘excellence or diversity’ must end,” four UC Berkeley alumni wrote in a letter published in the journal Science in September. “Diversity results in better, more impactful, and more innovative science,” the letter continued, “and it is essential to building novel solutions to challenges faced by marginalized and non-marginalized communities.” 

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THE SEARCH FOR UNISEX CONTRACEPTIVE DRUGS GETS A MAJOR BOOST, CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE

Winter 2020 Issue

When Polina Lishko received a call in September informing her that she had won a MacArthur Foundation “genius” award, she almost hung up. The physiologist had had so many grant applications turned down in recent years that several mentees had switched fields out of frustration. Now, she was being presented with $625,000 she hadn’t even applied for. “I initially, seriously, suspected it was a prank.” 

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ALT-MEAT MENAGERIE, CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE

Spring 2021 Issue

Check out these plant-based creations from the newest crop of food entrepreneurs. Students trained in Berkeley’s Alt: Meat Lab are serving up meat substitutes and more.

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TURNS OUT NICE FOLKS DON'T FINISH LAST AFTER ALL, CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE

Winter 2020 Issue

When it comes to business, being a jerk doesn’t necessarily help. A UC Berkeley-led study published in August in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science found that “disagreeable individuals,” defined as those with combative, selfish, and manipulative traits, don’t achieve greater career success than their kinder counterparts. 

Writing: Work

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live"

Joan Didion

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