Robert J. Birgeneau 

Chancellor
Professor of Physics
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
University of California, Berkeley

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If you look west from the Berkeley hills as the sun sets, framed by the Golden Gate, you will see what was once the far edge of the Western frontier. Today Berkeley is positioned at the leading edge of new frontiers -- the frontiers of knowledge and education. In our age the threshold of the unknown is intellectual rather than geographic.

Berkeley's role as a model public university is so important that we must summon ourselves to its highest aspirations. Any failure to lead as a pre-eminent research and teaching university not only diminishes Berkeley but also diminishes the standards to which public education in this nation aspires.

UC Berkeley's future is California's future

Chancellor Birgeneau's Op-Ed in the San Francisco Chronicle

(25 March 2012)

Chancellor Birgeneau announces he is stepping down at year's end

(13 March 2012)

Chancellor Invites Political Leaders to Campus Dialog on Public Higher Education

(15 November 2011)

Chancellor's Message Regarding the Occupy Cal Movement's Events

(14 November 2011)

Chancellor’s Message on the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11

(9 September 2011)

Chancellor Birgeneau’s Fall 2011 Welcome and State of the Campus Message

(26 August 2011)

Working together to end violence: Chancellor's letter to the campus community

(25 August 2011)

Chancellor announces new plan for Cal Athletics' future
NewsCenter | 28 September 2010

Universities play key role in strengthening science, math education in the U.S.
NewsCenter | 14 September 2010

Chancellor Birgeneau’s Fall 2010 Welcome Message to the Campus Community
(26 August 2010)

Chancellor Birgeneau reacts to ASUC divestment bill related to disputed territories in the Middle East
(29 April 2010)

Advocating for Public Support of Access and Excellence
The Daily Californian
(2 March 2010)

photos UC News Center

Announcement of campus-wide effort underway to reduce costs and streamline operations.

"We are calling this exercise Operational Excellence to reflect our commitment to an administration that is as effective and as excellent as we are in teaching and research."
Chancellor Birgeneau,
1 October 2009