Impact Stories

April marks National Internship Awareness Month. We’d like to highlight this year's UBPS interns who make meaningful contributions to UBPS’s lasting impact across campus: Aubree Noor, Activations Intern, and Lissette Ortiz, Marketing and Communications Intern. Read more about...Read more about Interns in Action: How UBPS Students Are Making Their Mark

Gamedays at California Memorial Stadium are electric, bringing tens of thousands of fans together in one place. The energy is undeniable. So is the waste.

With a seating capacity of more than 63,000, even a sold-out game can generate thousands of pounds of plastic trash, much of it from...Read more about From Kickoff to Reuse: A Game-Changer for Stadium Sustainability

Berkeley, CA - January 1, 2026 - UC...Read more about Campus announces 10-Year Partnership with Herff Jones as Exclusive Provider of Graduation Regalia

Bears Mobile, the only mobile phone plan created specifically for UC Berkeley Golden Bears fans, is now available through a collaboration between UC Berkeley, T-Mobile, Collegiate Mobile, and Learfield. Operating on the T-Mobile network, Bears Mobile allows students, employees, alumni, and fans...Read more about Bears Mobile: A New Way for Golden Bears to Support Cal, One Call at a Time

At UC Berkeley, your morning coffee fix can do more than power you through lectures and discussion sections; it can fuel a graduate student’s professional goals, sustainability programs or campus initiatives to fight food insecurity.

Thanks to...Read more about Coffee with a Mission: How Every Cup Supports Berkeley Students

If you’ve spotted new stickers on vending machines across campus, they’re not just a design refresh. These QR code decals are part of a new campus collaboration with PepsiCo aimed at educating the UC Berkeley...Read more about New Stickers on Vending Machines? Here’s What They’re Really About

Roaring fans, touchdowns, tackles and sustainability… Wait, sustainability? In the exciting world of collegiate athletics, sustainability might not always be the foremost thought when thinking about sports, but Cal Zero Waste and Cal Athletics are teaming up to tackle this issue head-on....Read more about A Winning Team: PepsiCo Backs Cal Zero Waste’s Sustainability Goals for Athletic Facilities

Cal Day is a longtime Berkeley tradition that has served as the campus’s annual open house, welcoming over 40,000 prospective students, alumni, the surrounding community and fans of the university to UC Berkeley. This year, the event was dedicated solely towards admitted students and their...Read more about We’re back! Cal Day 2023 welcomes students and sponsors back to campus

Bank of the West, the university’s official bank, has been a longtime sponsor of registered student organization (RSO) grants awarded through the LEAD (Leadership, Engagement, Advising, & Development) Center. For the past five years, the bank has provided $20,000 in funding annually to be...Read more about Grant program supports student organizations across campus

At first glance, it may seem like a strange sustainability initiative to increase the size of waste bins in the student dorms at UC Berkeley, but a successful pilot program has recently proven otherwise.

Proper waste sorting has been an ongoing issue that Berkeley has been trying to...Read more about An unconventional sustainability initiative revolutionizes waste sorting in student dorms

We’re “gonna soak up the sun…” No. We aren’t singing a remake of a popular summer song.

Instead, we are talking about something more sustainable-UC Berkeley’s plans to expand the campus’s current on-site solar program. The goal would see UC Berkeley producing a total of 5...Read more about Soaking up the sun: Berkeley’s plan to expand solar

Between academics, career development and social activities, maintaining healthy habits as a college student is far from easy. What is most readily available around campus, while also being reasonably priced, typically tends to be unhealthy. With this in mind, and in an effort to support the...Read more about Press H4 for healthier choices: Campus makes improvements to beverage vending machines

In the summer of 2018, a group of 20 higher education professionals met at UC Berkeley to share best practices on campuswide partnerships and sponsorships. Four years later, the group has evolved into a formal not-for-profit organization that now includes membership from over 65 national...Read more about University Partnerships Community of Practice group becomes official

UC Berkeley and The Clorox Company today announced an exclusive agreement making Clorox the Official Cleaning and Disinfectant Product Partner of UC Berkeley. The relationship is built...Read more about UC Berkeley names Clorox its official cleaning and disinfectant partner

In FY21, we learned the true meaning of the word partnership. Despite the uncertainty of life on campus, our partners continued their support of UC Berkeley, demonstrating flexibility throughout changes brought on from the pandemic. Learn more in our...Read more about UBPS FY2021 Impact Report

Moving is one of the most stressful and anxiety-inducing tasks as a college student. Each year, thousands of UC Berkeley students lease unfurnished apartments and houses, furnish them, and then find themselves questioning what to do with the furniture when moving out. This often results in...Read more about Striving for a more sustainable move out

Most students at UC Berkeley have seen the Bank of the West branch on the first floor of the ASUC Student Union, flanked by green columns and edged with an impressive living wall. As the official bank of UC...Read more about It just makes cents: Bank of the West grant continues to support student groups