Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025
Maggie Morgan, a professor emeritus at UC Davis, is a costume designer for stage and screen with experience working on films such as Apollo 13, Casino, and Men in Black. She is teaching Costume Design in Movies with us this spring.
Monday, Dec. 22, 2025
Steven Savage is the Executive Director of Blue Bear School of Music and holds a Ph.D. in musicology. An active record producer and recording engineer, he has worked on seven Grammy-nominated recordings.
Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025
When longtime member Bob Brewer first retired — “for the second or third time” he laughs — he found himself wondering what came next. His daughters were grown, and life had slowed…
Monday, Dec. 15, 2025
Ice skating at Rockefeller Center in the 1950s
It’s that time of year — the holiday season — which for me recall memories of rituals and traditions from my childhood in New York…
Monday, Nov. 24, 2025
Marjorie Medress's long connection to OLLI began when she and her late husband, Mark, walked into the first OLLI classrooms two decades ago.
"OLLI was a big part of Mark’s life…
Tuesday, Nov. 04, 2025
Kathleen Moran is a founder and faculty member of UC Berkeley's American Studies Program and has taught courses in History, English, Film, Geography, Architecture and Art History.
Friday, Oct. 10, 2025
Richard B. Rosenthal is an appellate lawyer who has been involved in high stakes, high-profile legal disputes across the nation. He has served as a personal attorney to President Barack Obama and is a lifelong friend of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Thursday, Oct. 09, 2025
Looking back on my interest in the history of travel and tourism, I recall my first presentation, “Travel, History and the Researcher at Mills,” presented at a Mills Family…
Thursday, Oct. 02, 2025
We're delighted to be featured in the October issue of East Bay magazine, which devoted its cover story to the vital role of lifelong learning in maintaining long-term brain…
Tuesday, Sep. 30, 2025
Our winter brochure lands in mailboxes soon and we couldn't be more excited about what's inside — dozens of courses designed to provide clarity and context, along with doses of beauty, joy and inspiration. (A little escapism, too.)
Sunday, Sep. 28, 2025
A recent invitation to write a chapter on “Monuments and Memorialization” for the Handbook of Heritage and Tourism, a book to be published by Routledge, led me to the study of monuments, their history, and why they are so important to us.
Thursday, Sep. 04, 2025
Bob Solomon taught at Yale Law School for decades before moving to UC Irvine as a Clinical Professor of Law. Henry Weinstein is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Lawyering Skills at UC Irvine.