Hispanic Trailblazers
She's the first Latina Astronaut...
Ellen Ochoa!
This invisible force acts between any two objects with mass and is responsible for planetary orbits.
What is gravity?
This plaza was the site of the 1964 Free Speech Movement protests.
What is Sproul Plaza?
This Indigenous language is still spoken in parts of Mexico and influenced many Spanish words like “chocolate.”
What is Nahuatl?
As of 2025, this is the second-largest racial or ethnic group in the United States.
Hispanic/Latino!
She is the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice...
Sonia Sotomayor!
This law of thermodynamics states that entropy of an isolated system always increases over time.
What is the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
This student-run publication has been reporting campus news since 1871.
What is The Daily Californian?
This traditional Mexican art form involves cutting intricate designs into colorful tissue paper.
What is papel picado?
In California, this percentage of STEM bachelor’s degrees awarded in 2023 went to Hispanic students.
27%!
He's a Mexican-American astronaut who used to be a farmworker...
José Hernández
This type of energy is stored in an object due to its position or configuration.
What is potential energy?
This building is named after the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from UC Berkeley.
What is Evans Hall?
This Afro-Brazilian martial art blends dance, acrobatics, and music.
What is capoeira?
How many UC Berkeley programs support Latinx students in STEM?
5-7!
He’s a famous Hispanic scientist who worked at UC Berkeley and won a Nobel Prize...
Luis Alvarez!
This process models how heat moves through solids, liquids, and gases...
What is heat transfer?
This research lab on campus helped develop the cyclotron and contributed to the Manhattan Project.
What is Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory?
This vibrant celebration on December 24th, centered around tamales and family gatherings, is a cornerstone of Latinx Christmas traditions across the U.S. and Latin America.
What is Nochebuena?
This percentage of Hispanic students at UC Berkeley in 2024 were first-generation college students.
45%!
This Latina scientist helped create insulin using bacteria — a breakthrough in medicine...
Lydia Villa-Komaroff!
This method breaks complex shapes into smaller parts to simulate stress and strain...
What is the finite element method?
This UC Berkeley chemist discovered several elements and has a campus building and element named after him.
Who is Glenn T. Seaborg?
This Indigenous Mesoamerican beverage, made from fermented maize, was consumed in rituals and celebrations.
What is chicha?
According to NSF data, this percentage of Hispanic doctoral recipients in science and engineering earned their PhDs in the U.S. in 2023.
7.5%!