Blog

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.

If you'd like to take a sneak peek at our spring term — and, really, why wouldn't you? — then flip (virtually) through our new brochure, which should be landing in mailboxes by…
By Hugh Winig, M.D.Dr. Winig is a retired psychiatrist and longtime OLLI @Berkeley member and volunteer. The term positive psychology means consciously altering one’s mind to…
All of us at OLLI @Berkeley are grateful for—and awed by—the engagement, empathy and resolve our community has shown over the past twelve months. You are a marvel. Best wishes…
Linda Carucci is a former California Culinary Academy dean and granddaughter of an Italian cheesemaker. She is the author of Cooking School Secrets for Real World Cooks, a…
We are excited to announce that Patricia Carvalho is joining our team as Business & Operations Manager. Patricia comes to OLLI after a decade as Operations Director at Ashby…
Until the fall of 2020, OLLI @Berkeley's home for 13 years had been a saggy brown shingle on Walnut Street one block from campus. The building — not the memories it holds — is …
By Hugh Winig, M.D.Dr. Winig is a retired psychiatrist and longtime OLLI @Berkeley member and volunteer. The field of human psychology is still in its infancy. It was but a mere…
 
On a warm weekend in October, about two dozen OLLI members and an equal number of Berkeley undergraduates gathered for an intergenerational design challenge. This informal STEM…
Throughout the fall, we've been showcasing influential UC Berkeley scientists, researchers and policy-advocates at the forefront of confronting climate change and its extreme…
By Hugh Winig, M.D.Dr. Winig is a retired psychiatrist and longtime OLLI @Berkeley member and volunteer. The origins and struggles of people with addictive conditions has been…