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Start Up Series: Workshop on Sales and Negotiations by Catherine Ivari-Maitrier

Last April, Catherine Ivari, the Berkeley Club of France's VP Entrepreneurs and Start Up organized and hosted our very first start up eve...

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Interview with Clara Olivares, UC Berkeley PhD candidate in music composition

Les Gens de Berkeley met with UC Berkeley PhD candidate in music composition Clara Olivares, who is enrolled in a doctoral program (simil...

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Interview With Composer Nicklas Schmidt - The Music of “Astrid”, a Biopic About Astrid Lindgren

Les Gens de Berkeley met with Danish composer Nicklas Schmidt to talk about his score of “Astrid”, a biopic on Astrid Lindgren, the iconi...

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Interview with Film Critic Peter Cowie - A Passage through Berkeley

Peter Cowie, film critic and author of more than thirty books on film, has fond memories of UC Berkeley campus and the Pacific Film Archi...

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Interview with Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman - Filming Berkeley as a Metaphor

Frederick Wiseman, American filmmaker, documentarian and theatre director, directed a four-hour documentary feature on UC Berkeley. In Ma...

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Book Review of Paris to the Pyrénées, by David Downie

Why on earth would a skeptic take on a pilgrimage along a Christian route? Crime novelist David Downie wrote a book about this concept: P...

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A (Very) Brief History of Time...Outside the Classroom

Cartoonist David Blanc may or may not have been musing about time lost (or gained) whilst skipping class. Regardless, if you look at the ...

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What Happens Inside the Classroom...Stays in the Classroom

Cartoonist David Blanc created a hilarious character who happens to be a self-confident student in spite of his less than great grades. H...

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A Glimpse of History at the Annual Reception with the U.S. Ambassador

In June, the Berkeley Club of France attended the 2018 Annual Embassy Reception with the Ambassador of the United States of America. Orga...

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Being a Physics Ph.D. at Berkeley in 1978

What was the physics mecca in the late 70’s? It was the Lawrence Berkeley Lab, according to Jean-Pierre Sursock Ph.D.’78. In this intervi...

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Nuclear Energy as a Transition to Renewable Energy

Should there be a role for nuclear energy in a world transitioning towards renewable energy? Here is the opinion piece written by Jean-Pi...

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A Tour of Station F, the World's Biggest Startup Campus

In May, Catherine Ivari '09, Berkeley Club of France Vice President Startups & Entrepreneurship, invited alumni to a private tour of the ...

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Verre des Bears #2 - Summer To Autumn Happy Hour

Thursday, 20 September, 2018 marked the Berkeley Club of France's kickoff event at bar-club Gatsby. The team welcomed new alumni and frie...

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Being a Computer Science Postgrad at Berkeley in 1967

When Martin Luther King Jr gave a speech on the Vietnam War in Berkeley, François de Verdière M.S. ‘67, was a postgraduate in computer sc...

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Mark up your calendars with the exciting events organized by the Berkeley Club of France ranging from happy hours to the Big Game get together in cool venues across Paris all year round.

EVENTS

The Special Report section focuses not just on Berkeley alumni's occupation and industries but on opportunities and challenges that are relevant to the Berkeley community.

SPECIAL REPORTS

This is all about you, your academic and professional experience before, during and after Berkeley. We share your stories, including how you got admitted to UC Berkeley, what courses you took, where you went after graduation and how you stay connected with the Berkeley community.

PEOPLE

The Arts section explores the cultural and artistic nuances of the Berkeley experience while featuring a riddle competition (of sorts) based on our house cartoon, created by French contributor David Blanc.