The new Undergraduate Academic Building (being completed next to Dwinelle Hall) has a mural, "150W" (150 Years of Women at Berkeley), featuring portraits of 41 individuals. A campus news story is here and a run-down of the individuals is here. Two of the 41 featured individuals were drawn from the department's own "Women in Berkeley Linguistics" webpage, created by a committee whose members were Andrew Garrett, Emily Remirez, Maddy Bossi, Meg Cychosz, and Zach O'Hagan. Notably, too, the women chosen for the UAB installation, Ascención Solórsano (Mutsun) and Laura Fish Somersal (Southern Pomo, Wappo), were part of the broader Berkeley linguistics community by virtue of their roles as engaged collaborators on language projects over many years. This highlights the committee's goals of defining our department community as inclusively as possible.
March 15, 2026