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The OLLI Blog showcases the voices and perspectives of the OLLI @Berkeley community as well as news from and about OLLI. Have a submission? Please contact Nancy Murr to learn more.

By Hugh Winig, M.D.Dr. Winig is a retired psychiatrist and a longtime OLLI @Berkeley member and volunteer Writing a review of In Defense of a Liberal Education by Fareed…
As we enter 2023, I can’t help but reflect on the past and future of lifelong learning. Perhaps you are, as well. At the first Town Hall meeting we held in May, 2020, after our…
Amelia Barili, an award-winning UC Berkeley faculty member, teaches a systematic embodied approach for brain fitness and personal transformation, integrating discoveries of…
Dr. Michael Baker is a retired general surgeon who also served in the military and retired as a rear admiral. He currently serves as the Chapter Chair of the East Bay Chapter…
Arthur M. Eckstein is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Maryland. His scholarship includes imperialism in the ancient and modern worlds. He is the author of…
Belvie Rooks is co-founder of the Growing a Global Heart project. She is a writer, educator and human rights and social justice advocate whose work weaves the worlds of…
Susan Van Dyne earned her Ph.D. at Harvard and taught at Smith College for 40 years. She loves to teach in an interdisciplinary context and collaborate with students in an…
By Hugh Winig, M.D.Dr. Winig is a retired psychiatrist and a longtime OLLI @Berkeley member and volunteer It has been quite some time since we have all had to adjust to a “new…
  By Linda Wing, Ph.D.Dr. Wing is a OLLI @Berkeley member and volunteer After the pandemic started in March 2020, I discovered podcasts. I became enamored with the…
By Michael Baker, M.D., Rear Admiral USN (ret)Dr. Baker is an OLLI @Berkeley faculty member, who was inspired to write the following after reading a recent post by Dr. Hugh…
By Hugh Winig, M.D.Dr. Winig is a retired psychiatrist and a longtime OLLI @Berkeley member and volunteer When I turned 18 back in 1961, I was required, as all males were in…
Harry Chotiner served as an editor at Socialist Review magazine, a reader at Zoetrope Studios, and a story editor at CBS. He also served as vice president of development at 20th…