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Berkeley Library expands digitization work, helping blind scholars

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New center illuminates ‘microscopic universe within each cell’

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Berkeley Talks: Berkeley scholars on the politics and law of impeachment

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Carol Christ, Chancellor

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First sports team

Cal’s first sports team is established on campus. They call it football, but the sport they play is what we know today as rugby.

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