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News
The Berkeley Washington Program and the excellent work Berkeley students do are very much in the news.
Most recently the Berkeleyan featured the accomplishments of current (spring 2007) and past Berkeley students in Washington. In an article entitled ”Berkeley students bloom inside the Beltway,” the Program was lauded for the educational and career opportunities it provides.
During the fall 2006 semester, Berkeley students in two of the course electives made news. In Professor Bruce Cain’s course, California on the Hill, students analyzed the methodologies through which political prognosticators predicted the outcomes of the 2006 Congressional elections. The Hill newspaper in “Beltway political seers spar with Berkeley professor,” reported that several of the prognosticators were infuriated by the analysis of the Berkeley students which concluded the prognosticators’ own claims of their accuracy were over inflated. In Professor Susan Rasky’s opinion-writing class, Walter Lippman Meets the Blog, four Berkeley students had essays published in the opinion pages of the San Francisco Chronicle. The essays were featured in a collection called “9/11: Five Years Later.”
Events
Berkeley students in Washington are fortunate to be able to attend an incredible array of UC sponsored activities. The UC Center sponsors both speakers and forums virtually every week of the semester and schedules approximately a dozen special tours and events for students throughout the mid-Atlantic region each year. The most recent activities are advertised on the front page of the UC Center website while others are listed in the “student activities” and “calendar” sections of that site.
The Berkeley Washington Program provides students an additional schedule of speakers and special events.
The Berkeley events begin orientation week. For the spring ’07 semester these included: lunch and a tour of the National Museum of the American Indian, a special tour of the Capitol by retired Representative George Wortley (Do you know who is buried in the crypt of the Capitol? Berkeley Washington students do because the tour ends there!), and attendance at one of the Washington performances of the Bokomoso Youth Theater from Winterfeldt, South Africa.
Special Berkeley activities are also part of the Berkeley research seminar. These include presentations both by some of the nation’s most prominent scholars and Berkeley Program alumni who return to participate in the last research seminar of the semester in order to talk to the current students about “What Next? Research seminar related activities for the spring “07 semester are identified in the current course syllabus
Gabriel Eisner, Spring 2008 Matsui Foundation Award Recipient with Congresswoman Matsui and Chancellor Birgeneau.
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