Posts by Lila Thulin

A black-and-white photo of a nurse administering a shot into a woman's upper arm. Both have their hair in retro curls.

People

The history of vaccine hesitancy, from smallpox to COVID-19

Elena Conis, a journalism and history professor at UC Berkeley, explains how attitudes and federal policy about vaccines have evolved in the U.S.

A collage of 15 book covers, including The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (on a burgundy background with a large face), A Gesture Life (black-and-white cover), Tripmaster Monkey by Maxine Hong Kingston (image of a bridge), Comfort Woman (a woman's face), Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (dragons in a style associate with Asian scroll art), Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee (on a blue background), east goes west (a globe on top of a cubist body, accompanies by Chinese characters), Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee (a back-and-white image of an Asian man's face with a childhood photo superimposed), Fifth Chinese Daughter (a fairytale draying on top of a red background), China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston (red text and a dragon), America is in the Heart, No-No Boy (a body, fists covering his face, behind two strands of crossed red barbed wire, Dictee (a black-and-white landscape image), Obasan by Joy Kogawa (an Asian girl with a bowl cut looking through the window), and Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn (a romaneqseque sculpture of a woman)

Arts & culture

What counts as ‘Asian American literature,’ anyway?

A group of students talking to each other and sitting at a long classroom table

Campus & community

From AI to polar microbiology, here are 10 new UC Berkeley classes this semester

People

Her sisters — and growing up working class in Sacramento — inspired this student to push for climate justice

Disability leaders convene for the National Disability Cultural Centers Symposium and Justice Tour.

UC Berkeley hosts national symposium on how to serve students with disabilities

an image of different newspaper and magazine dispensers — blue, red, evergreen, bright green, and red — along a street labelled

Three standout stories uncovered by the California Local News Fellowship

Protesters hold up a sign that says

This Berkeley scholar wants everyone to understand what ‘structural racism’ really means

a brightly colored rendering of a paved walkway. Many people seem to be enjoying it, including a couple with a bike. There are trees of various opacities, and one has red dots that appear to be fruit. In the background, multicolored apartments can be seen as well as a basketball court and squat community building.

UC Berkeley teams nab top prizes at national affordable housing competition

The pediment and frieze of the U.S. Supreme Court building, bearing the inscription: Equal Justice Under Law

UC Berkeley experts react to U.S. Supreme Court ruling on medical care for trans minors

Two students hug each other wearing their regalia in the bleachers at UC Berkeley's 2025 campuswide commencement on May 17.

At UC Berkeley’s campuswide commencement, grads were grateful for their personal growth — and four Big Game wins in a row

A young woman holds her graduation cap and smiles. She is wearing a white dress and a gold-and-navy sash

Majoring in gender and women’s studies helped this graduate find her voice

a man in a red hat and winter gear stands onboard the green deck of a ship with red railing in Antarctica. He is holding a camera and filming something, looking focused.

In a tiny boat 7,800 miles from UC Berkeley, graduate students made a daring documentary

a young man wearing a green jacket puts his hands in his pockets and smiles in front of the Campanile

The key to success for this year’s University Medalist? Curiosity and collaboration

Lewis Hamilton in a white suit, Angela Bassett in a blue suit wearing a black velvet hat, Zendaya in a white suit and matching wide-brimmed hat, Gigi Hadid in a gold dress, and Ayo Edebiri in a white and coral dress, all on a blue carpet

Did the Met Gala’s attendees live up to its Black dandy-inspired theme? UC Berkeley experts discuss

Two Berkeley professors receive prestigious Guggenheim fellowships

a multistory museum with a brown lattice exterior pictured at night, with a white obelisk rising in the background.

Executive actions aim to reshape America’s cultural institutions. UC Berkeley scholars react