Press
This is where you can find our comprehensive media kit and, later, press releases announcing the most current developments for Light the Way: The Campaign for Berkeley.
Press Releases
Mar
04
At Saturday’s event, Berkeley kicks off $6 billion “Light the Way” campaign
The ambitious goal aims to secure UC Berkeley’s status as the world’s top public research and teaching university. The Light the Way: The Campaign for Berkeley, has already raised $3.4 billion since its quiet phase began Jan. 1, 2014.
Feb
29
Largest gift in Berkeley’s history will create a “hub” for advancing data science
UC Berkeley’s Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) will soon have a brick-and-mortar home, thanks to an anonymous $252 million gift to seed the construction of a new “Data Hub” on the open space at the intersection of Hearst Avenue, Arch Street and MacFarlane Lane.
Feb
29
College of Natural Resources receives $50 million naming gift
The College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley, has been renamed the Rausser College of Natural Resources in honor of a landmark $50 million gift by Gordon Rausser, former dean of the college and the Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professor Emeritus of agricultural and resource economics at UC Berkeley.
Feb
29
Light the Way: Berkeley launches landmark $6 billion fundraising campaign
The ambitious goal — the highest set by any U.S. public university without a medical school — aims to secure UC Berkeley’s status as the world’s top public research and teaching university at a time when the state funds about 14% of its budget. The campaign is one of the largest taken up by any university, public or private, in the nation.
Press Coverage
Mar
02
Mar
02
Mar
02
U. of California at Berkeley Receives Two Gifts Totaling $302 Million
Chronicle of Philanthropy
Feb
29
Feb
29
UC Berkeley seeks $6 billion for new faculty, housing and ‘core needs’
San Francisco Chronicle
Media Kit Download
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