University of California Content

James B. Milliken Named 22nd President of the University of California

James Michael Nash — May 02, 2025 - 3:25pm

��о�� Chancellor Gary S. May made the following statement about the appointment of James B. Milliken as the University of California president:

“I extend my sincere congratulations to James Milliken on his selection as the next president of the University of California. With his deep roots in higher education, I know that the University is in good hands.

UC Sources on Supreme Court Nomination: Memory and Childhood Trauma; Legal Experts

Karen Michele Nikos — September 24, 2018 - 11:08am

Updated Sept. 28

With recent developments in the U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh, University of California offers expert sources in psychology who have studied children’s and adults’ memory of childhood traumas. A study co-author is also available to comment. Also below are video interviews with law faculty.

Strawberry Breeding Program Backgrounder: A Historical Timeline

Patricia Bailey — May 09, 2016 - 1:23pm

The University of California strawberry breeding program began at UC Berkeley, led by plant pathologist Harold E. Thomas and breeder Earl V. Goldsmith. Thomas, who would become known as the “father of the California strawberry industry,” joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1927 and in 1934 began working with Goldsmith, who had been foreman of the UC Deciduous Fruit Field Station at Santa Clara.