A visiting assistant professor in the music department, J. Griffith "Griff" Rollefson has carved out a unique specialty for himself in the world of musicology. He's not just a go-to guy when it comes to the study of hip hop and its cultural impact. He's the go-to guy in the field of European hip hop.
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An ornithologist, a French art historian, an African American history expert, a bioengineer and a scholar of early modern European culture have one thing in common beyond serving on the UC Berkeley faculty: They are superlative teachers. And they are recipients of the 2013 Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus's most prestigious teaching honor.
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At 83, with 22 novels, seven volumes of poetry and more than 100 short stories to her name, Ursula Le Guin is still writing and creating other worlds. On the occasion of her recent Avenali Lecture, sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities, she sat down and talked to California Magazine about growing up in Berkeley - and growing old.
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