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Portrait of Jennifer Ja Birchim
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Matt Perko
“My favorite spot on campus is Campus Point. My kids learned how to surf there, and that is where I surf as well as my husband. It is an important place for me because my kids have spent so much of their life down there.” —Jennifer Ja Birchim

From rental listings to dispute resolution, housing officer Jennifer Ja Birchim focuses on student support

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Woman with black hair with red streaks and bangs wearing a red and black dress grinds pigments on stone in front of a red tiled wall
"Sandy Rodriguez: Unfolding Histories" opens at the Art, Design and Architecture Museum this winter.
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still photo from the experimental film
A 35-millimeter landscaped portrait from the "Get Shorty" press kit, as seen in "Still Film"
Photograph of authors Pei-te Lien and Nicole Filler

A Pioneering Collaboration

C'mon, Get Happy
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Toyon berry and Mistletoe
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SBBON26 via iNaturalist, Harrison Tasoff
(Left) A cedar waxwing gobbles up a toyon berry near Lake Los Carneros Park.
(Right) Phoradendron leucarpum, also called American or oak mistletoe, retains its elliptic green leaves even as it’s host tree drops its own leaves in preparation for winter.

Yuletide Flora

Speaking of Semiconductors

Insight and Influence
Jill Beale standing in front of garden

What Water Wants

We Are the World