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UC Berkeley graduates have founded more venture-backed companies than undergraduate alumni from any other university in the world, according to the 2024 PitchBook university rankings. 

Rich Lyons, an established economist, former dean of the Haas School of Business and the campus’s current leader for innovation and entrepreneurship, will become the next chancellor at the University of California, Berkeley, the UC Board of Regents announced today (Wednesday, April 10).

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.