Rich Lyons
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Hundreds of UC Berkeley students showed up early this morning to help clean up the campus damage. Beyond yourself.
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In California, 52% of all children are living in homes with at least one immigrant parent.
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Today was kinda a big day. I’m just digging into the lovely messages and want you to know how much I appreciate them. Go Bears.
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My daughter asked me to put on my best "Superman" for a photo at Gather the other night. I'm not sure this hit the mark.
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I look forward to starting on Monday. I — we all — have learned much from Carol. Go Bears.
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Big thanks to my former
@BerkeleyHaas
student and current US Head of Capital Markets at the NYSE, Bonnie Hyun, for this recognition and photo.
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Nabbed lunch at Top Dog today. Realized I'd bought my son a Top Dog t-shirt as a present years ago, but I still didn't own one. Fixed that.
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It’s stunning what Berkeley is able to achieve at the scale that it achieves it.
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Congrats to all 6
#studentsalways
teams in Friday's
@vcic
! VC judges called out teamwork & prep displayed by all teams, especially 2 finalists. Winner is 5
@BerkeleyHaas
1st yr MBAs & Entrepreneurs Choice is 3
@HaasEWMBA
, 1 FTMBA & 1
@BerkeleyLawNews
. Great job, everyone!
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UC Berkeley is one of society’s most important assets. Our collective obligation to it is immense.
@UCBerkeley
@UCBChangemaker
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Graduations are in full swing this week, with lots of family and friends on campus. Small suggestion: If you find yourself walking by a bit of trash, please consider tossing it in the nearest trash can. This is our campus. Go Bears.
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From an alum event in Southern California the day after my appointment was announced. Go Oski.
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Off to the Lair of the Bear for a week with my family. My daughter is a staffer. Go Bears.
@LairoftheBear
@UCBerkeley
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Commitment to the greater good is so wired into Berkeley, it blows me away. Just yesterday my wife was walking our dog on campus and saw a plastic plate, which she picked up to toss. Under it was a piece of paper with this message:
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Hypothesis: UC Berkeley has more cultural capital than any other US university. Discuss.
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.
@ucberkeley
's own Janet Yellen to be nominated to lead the US Treasury Dept.
@ucberkeley
@BerkeleyHaas
@UCBChangemaker
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Which university produces the most PhD grads who become faculty at other universities? Go Bears.
@UCBerkeley
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This measure out in the last week —
@UCBerkeley
’s standing among the world’s great universities. Go Bears.
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Here’s the video we put out yesterday, my first day in the chancellor role. My thanks for all the support I am already feeling. I couldn’t be more excited about where we can take
@UCBerkeley
together.
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UC Berkeley educates roughly 10x as many low-income undergrads as any of the top private universities. 10x.
@UCBerkeley
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UC Berkeley identity/brand/reputation: For me, having an anchor concept helps frame both message and audiences. An offering: *The seat of
@UCBerkeley
’s preeminence is fundamental research.* It is why and how we are known the world around.
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The People’s Park: “We conclude that, based on the new law, none of Good
Neighbor’s claims has merit and we accordingly reverse the
Court of Appeal’s judgment.” — CA Supreme Court (just now)
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NBA Finals: Go Bears.
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Over the next
@UCBerkeley
Chancellor’s tenure, the annual payout on Berkeley’s endowment will surpass annual funding by the State of California.
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Our Olympians. Go Bears.
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UC Berkeley enrolled 25,723 undergraduates from California this school year (2023-24), compared with fewer than 20,000 a decade ago.
@UCBerkeley
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Headed to Rickwood Field to pay respects on Thurs. Mays was a legend.
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Yep, that's the Golden Gate Bridge on the left. Yep, you should come to Berkeley.
@UCBerkeley
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Berkeley lauded for being among the few that stick to no-legacy admissions in article on How To Level The College Playing Field.
@UCBerkeley
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I was at an event recently where the Cal Band made a surprise appearance. I got choked up. I promise to do better.
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This past Saturday, we got to personally welcome our newly admitted transfer students, so fundamental to the CA Master Plan. Congratulations to the new transfer class! Looking forward to seeing your big ideas come to life.
#ucberkeleyinnovation
#cal
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This year for the first time in its 150-year history, UC Berkeley has raised more than $500m. Go Bears.
@BerkeleyHaas
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This image went up on the Jumbotron at the Cal-Stanford men’s basketball game
@UCBerkeley
last night with a 30-second PA read. Bears won.
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Nobel:
@UCBerkeley
‘s Reinhard Genzel, a former postdoc and an emeritus physics professor, wins the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Grateful to have seen the Dead show last night at the Sphere. High point (for me): I Know You Rider.
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Had a favorite day last week with my daughter at a studio to record some covers. Here are our two guitars and her singing Landslide. In the next day or two I will post my solo Mack The Knife.
@UCBerkeley
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Photo of SF from our new-admit reception at Memorial Stadium (via Pallav Vyas). You too should be here!
@BerkeleyHaas
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The Univ of California does not discriminate based on national origin. Neither does the Haas School. Never will (while I'm in my seat).
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Spent yesterday in Sacramento meeting our legislators as part of “UC Day”—focused around a UC Innovation Showcase. I thank the following for the time afforded to me and the UC Berkeley team: Nancy Skinner, Buffy Wicks, Tim Grayson, Damon Connolly, Josh Newman, and Jacqui Irwin.
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Congrats to Nobel Prize winner Jim Allison on becoming a 2024 National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductee for groundbreaking work he conducted on cancer immunotherapy
@UCBerkeley
during his 20 years as director of the campus’s Cancer Research Laboratory.
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On campus today I walked by a guy, my age, apparently a visitor when he said, "If you work here, you are a lucky man." Amen.
@UCBerkeley
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It won’t be long before the annual payout on
@UCBerkeley
’s endowment provides more to the budget than the state of CA. We have come a long way.
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Nice example of impact through public service: The Summer Reading Challenge. Go Bears.
@CalAthletics
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Nice!!
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Correct!
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My irreverent son, 18, asked me today: Are the defining principles the status quo?
@BerkeleyHaas
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A future with 2 types of job: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told what to do by computers. --Marc Andreesen
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Lovely recent photo from Evening MBA class break looking out over Haas.
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The goal of
@ucberkeley
's
#NobelNFTs
is not just to raise funds: It is also to call attention in society to the fundamental importance of basic research, which is far too often disputed these days.
@CalBlockchain
@Cal
@j_humenansky
@medhakothari
@UCBChangemaker
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The
@FinancialTimes
ranks the
#haasome
Full-time Berkeley MBA Program
#2
in the US in "Top MBAs for Women" (We're
#3
globally); alumnae reported salaries 3 percent higher than male classmates three years post-graduation.
@BerkeleyEquity
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Vision 2: We will be the pre-eminent institution for the pairing of science and business.
@BerkeleyHaas
@UCBerkeley
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Innovation and entrepreneurship thrive through collaboration.
@UCBerkeley
we have ~75 leaders across campus who meet monthly as part of the I&E Council. Together, we foster a culture of creativity and groundbreaking solutions.
More at:
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Ever seen the Builders Of Berkeley names on the monument at the Doe Library steps? The ceremony for adding to it is always touching. Go Bears.
@UCBerkeley
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Amazing 7 UC Berkeley scientists (Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Doris Bachtrog, Uroš Seljak, Irfan Siddiqi, Mark T. D'Esposito, James Hurley, and Polly Arnold) elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
#ucberkeleyinnovation
#cal
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Did you know that
@UCBerkeley
founders account for 65 still-private unicorns? Add C-level alums and the number is well over 100. Go Bears.
@sibylchen
@DarrenDCooke
@UCBChangemaker
@SutardjaCenter
@UCBStartup
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As a business school, you win over time by doing the right thing, not by trying to win.
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If you are bored with Berkeley, you are bored with life. --Clark Kerr
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So many of us have a friend or family member whose life was saved by Jim Allison's work
@ucberkeley
that started the field of cancer immunotherapy.
#nobelNFTs
#GoBears
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I’ve been meeting incredibly interesting people for my new role as the Berkeley campus Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer. More to come soon on goals for the year.
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Few institutions anywhere in society reinforce pre-existing hierarchies more than places like ...
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SCET rocks.
Want to know what's next for
#innovation
and
#entrepreneurship
at
#UCBerkeley
? Check out the Q&A with our new Chancellor Rich Lyons
@richlyons
!
@UCBerkeley
@BerkeleyHaas
@UCBChangemaker
@Cal_Engineer
@CALinnovators
@BerkStartups
@CalAdmissions
@Cal
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New Haas Building: Courtyard view -- first day with scaffold down on this face.
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Welcoming our new EWMBA class at the Stadium tonight. Is there a more gorgeous view on Earth?
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I never quite know which songs I’m going to play in the morning. This morning I played Vienna, Sweet Baby James, Here Comes the Sun, and Amie.
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I get to present five emerging priorities for my new role as CIEO (Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer) to the Berkeley Council of Deans on Tuesday. Should be fun.
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Congrats to all of the founders who pitched their startups and innovative ideas at LAUNCH: The Demo Day of the University of California wide Startup Accelerator’s last week. Looking forward to seeing what you accomplish next.
#ucberkeleyinnovation
#cal
Congrats to all of the entrepreneurs who pitched their startups and innovative ideas at LAUNCH: The University of California's Startup Accelerator’s Demo Day last week, including our top teams!
1st place: Doorstep AI
2nd place: OptiGenix
3rd place: Citmit
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Beginning Summer 2023, universities including Berkeley and several venture firms worked together to streamline the process of spinning climate startups out of universities, pioneering the future of climate-tech and a step towards sustainability. More at:
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Our job is not to do research & teaching. It is to produce breakthrough ideas (thru research) & to shape remarkable people (thru teaching).
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Entrepreneurship & Berkeley: 150 years of Questioning the Status Quo.
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Shared Carry:
@UCBerkeley
thanks the 7 VC funds that share 50% of GP carry with campus—Berkeley SkyDeck Funds I & II, Berkeley Catalyst Funds I & II, Blue Bear Ventures Fund, Berkeley Frontier Fund, Cal Innovators Fund. Go Bears.
@SkyDeck_Cal
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. —George Bernard Shaw
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Big campus news
@UCBerkeley
: New Division — Data Science and Information. Most significant structural change in my 20+ years here.
@BerkeleyHaas
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