Cal Alumni
Stories about graduates of the University of California, Berkeley.
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Lisa Cook, a Berkeley Ph.D., takes her Fed seat into this week’s rate meeting with a White House inquiry pending
President Trump has named a committee to recommend whether there is cause to remove the governor; her lawyer has asked to delay a Nov. 5 hearing until December.
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From the Cal sidelines to a Minnesota Senate race: Michele Tafoya trails narrowly with a week to go
The 1988 Berkeley graduate and former NFL sideline reporter, now the Trump-endorsed Republican nominee, is within three points of Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in recent polls.
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Perplexity, led by Berkeley Ph.D. Aravind Srinivas, lets developers queue 50,000 agent requests at once
The San Francisco AI company’s new Batch API pushes it further into selling infrastructure to developers, as revenue climbs and a reported funding round would value it above $30 billion.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen, a Berkeley English alumnus, picks the year’s best American short stories
The Pulitzer-winning novelist, a two-time Cal graduate, guest-edits a 2026 anthology of stories about love and longing.