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As a teaching fellow in a Boston middle school 20 years ago, Laura Hassner M.B.A. ’18 remembers a boy with debilitating headaches who tucked his head into his arms during class. After learning that he needed glasses, she solicited friends to help provide books and glasses to children in need. After all, you can’t read what you can’t see.

Join us for a energising dialogue with Rich Lyons, Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer at UC Berkeley, formerly Dean of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and Chief Learning Officer at Goldman Sachs.

UC Berkeley — once the center of a debate around corporate funding of academic research — wants to make one thing clear at this week's 42nd annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference: It wants to be your partner.

Four UC-owned buildings, including two city landmarks, would be knocked down to make way for the research complex.

UC Berkeley has taken the top spot for the number of venture-funded startups its undergraduate alumni have founded, according to data from the 2023 PitchBook university rankings released Monday. 

Berkeley undergraduate founders have created more companies than undergraduate founders from any other university in the world.