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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.

Barry Schwartz taught psychology at Swarthmore College and at Berkeley Haas for 50 years. He works on the interaction between economics, psychology, and morality. His books…
It should come as a surprise to precisely no one that OLLI members love to read (and read and read and read.) Here are just some of the books they couldn't put down in 2023. Enjoy…
It is with deep sadness that I share the news of the passing of Mark Medress, one of OLLI @Berkeley's founding members and dearest champions.
Robert Todd has built innovative teams and products at places like McKinsey & Co, LinkedIn and San Francisco State University. He is teaching "Being Humans in the Age of AI"…
Thank you for another year of dynamic learning inside and outside of the classroom! As you will read in this Annual Report, we made changes and experimented with our program…
The newly published book, Thriving with Anxiety: 9 Tools to Make Anxiety Work for You, by David Rosmarin, Ph.D., is one of the most counter-intuitive books on human psychology…
I was out of college, living at home in Katonah, New York, just outside New York City, looking for my first real job. Having double-majored in English and Philosophy, I decided…
Two of my interests are walking to stay fit and learning about American history.
Adam Hochschild is an acclaimed historian and a long-time writing teacher at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and…
From the day I turned 79 years old in mid-2022, I began obsessing about living into my 80th year. This obsession, which carried negative implications about getting quite old, created anxiety and worry within me and detracted from the potential joys of reaching that advanced age intact and in good health.
Lauren Tamaki is the illustrator of the award-winning book "Seen and Unseen" published in 2022. The book documents the experiences of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II under President Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066.
Henry E. Brady is the Monroe Deutsch Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at UC Berkeley, the Research Director for California 100, and former Dean of…