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.

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…
Dr. Michael Baker is an OLLI @Berkeley faculty member and retired trauma surgeon who also served 30 years in the uniform of his country, retiring from the U.S. Navy with the…
Susan Hoffman with instructor Michael Fox in the lobby of Freight & Salvage Twenty years ago, when the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute movement began in California with…
Pierluigi Serraino is a practicing architect and educator. The author of many books on architecture, including TASCHEN's Modernism Rediscovered, his articles and projects have…
Exciting news! OLLI @Berkeley has just been voted the best continuing education option in Oakland and the East Bay in 2022 by Oakland magazine. We are thrilled at the honor!…
Join OLLI @Berkeley this fall for a blockbuster term of new courses, speaker events, intergenerational dialogues and more. Registration opens on Monday, July 25. Many classes…
By Sara Orem Sara Orem, Ph.D, is a longtime OLLI instructor, member and volunteer I know that healthcare has changed over the last 5 years and particularly the last 2.5 years.…
Sarita Nyasha Cannon teaches courses on 20th-Century American Literatures in the English Department at San Francisco State University. She has presented her scholarship at…