Looking for student groups to join at Cal? Berkeley has over 1,000 student groups looking to recruit YOU! That includes registered student organizations (RSO’s), fraternities, sororities, and student government (ASUC & GA). Find your community at Cal by going to CalLink from January 25th-27th, for Calapalooza, the LEAD Center’s virtual student involvement fair. Each student group will have its...
Literary Research: How to Research from Home (and Be Awesome)
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We love books! But how do you research authors, novels, literary periods, and more when you can't come to the Library in person? Attend this online workshop with Stacy Reardon, the Librarian for literature, to learn how to research literary studies from home. Together, we'll cover important...
A generation of contemporary Anglo-American novelists has championed the ethical value of literature. Dorothy Hale explores the modernist roots of this “new” emphasis on the novel’s ethical significance.
With the incredible growth of machine learning (ML) over recent years has come an increasing concern about whether ML systems’ objectives truly capture their human designers’ intent: the so-called “alignment problem.” Over the last five years, these questions of both ethics and safety have moved from the margins of the field to become arguably its most central concerns. The result is something of...
Craving more community? Visit the Student Union Open House from February 1st-7th. Site goes live February 1st. Have fun, win prizes, learn about our services. We’ll be holding a quiz night, craft night, and even a MarioCart tournament! Grand prize Apple Airpods or Nintendo Switch!
The extent of the COVID-19 pandemic is still truly unknown due to the unavailability of SARS-CoV-2 tests. The development of new types of diagnostics will greatly increase the global testing capacity.
Hannah Ginsborg, Ken Goldberg, and David Marno explore how the technological and social shifts of the COVID era have changed the ways in which we pay attention.
If you're looking to self-publish work of any length and want an easy-to-use tool that offers a high degree of customization, allows flexibility with publishing formats (EPUB, MOBI, PDF), and provides web-hosting options, Pressbooks may be great for you. Pressbooks is often the tool of choice for academics creating digital books, open textbooks, and open educational resources, since you can...
