Berkeley Swahili instructor Edwin Okong'o mines the immigrant experience for comic gold in his stand-up routines. A "storyteller by any medium necessary," the Cal journalism grad also sets the record straight via his work as radio-show host, writer, reporter and award-winning video producer.
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Traditionally, the holy grail for doctoral students has been a professorship at a prestigious university. But in a sign of changing times, many Ph.D. students are now seeking jobs outside higher ed. Enter "Beyond Academia," a career conference organized by Ph.D. students and postdocs.
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California's new online voter-registration system, which premiered last fall, generated some striking results. Among them: more registrants come from low- and middle-income neighborhoods than expected, says a new study by UC Berkeley researchers.
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