2025 EVENTS

BIG GAME JOINT WATCH PARTY WITH
STANFORD ALUMNI NOVEMBER 22

The CACC will be co-hosting the Big Game Watch party with the Stanford Club of Chicago. We need all Chicagoland alums to show up in BLUE & GOLD, loud and proud and cheer our Golden Bears on to KEEP THE AXE!!!!!!!

When: Saturday, November 22nd 6:00 PM CT
Where: The Bad Apple Lincoln Park
             658 W Belden Ave,
             Chicago, IL 60614 (map)

Please note the following:

• Registration is required for this event:

  • Cal alums register here

  • Stanford alums register here

• Appetizers for Cal alums courtesy Cal Alumni Club Chicago (no beverages included)

• Transportation - 2 blocks from Fullerton L station

• Parking -

  • Covered Parking Structure one block away (2316 N. Lincoln)

  • Free street parking around neighborhood, as available

Donations graciously accepted at the door to help support this event and all our CACC activities (Stanford is charging $35 pp).

Join us to claim The Bad Apple as BEAR TERRITORY! Go Bears!

ALUMNI AND CAL WBB FANS HEAD TO PARIS
FOR SEASON OPENER

The women's basketball team participated in the Oui-Play Paris 2025, kicking off the season vs. Vanderbilt on Nov. 3 at the Adidas Arena in Paris. Several Midwestern alumni made the trip to catch the opener of a team that is coming off one of their most successful seasons ever. Last year, the Bears earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2018-19, won 25 games for the first time since 2012-13, maintained an Associated Press Top 25 ranking for eight straight weeks, set a program record for home wins in a season (16), and defeated multiple ranked teams.

TAILGATES AND REUNIONS FOR MIDWEST ALUMS

Midwest alumni have traveled well this fall for football too. We’ve reunited for road games and also trips to the Berkeley campus - the above pix were taken in a visit pre-game vs. Louisville on 11/8/25 by CACC members. More reunions to come for 2025-26!

BERKELEY PROFESSORS RECEIVE NOBEL PRIZES

In what’s seemingly becoming an annual tradition each fall, two more Nobel Prizes were received this week by UC Berkeley professors.

Professor John Clarke received a 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. Prof. Clarke is an emeritus professor of physics at the school currently. His work in particular was that of quantum tunneling, one of many strange aspects of quantum mechanics. He shares the prize with two other physicists, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis, who at the time of their prize-winning research were at UC Berkeley. Devoret is now at Yale University and UC Santa Barbara, while Martinis is at UC Santa Barbara.

Then the following day, it was announced that Omar Yaghi, a Jordanian-American chemist on campus, was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He shares it with Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University, Japan.

“The scientists were cited for creating “molecular constructions with large spaces through which gases and other chemicals can flow. These constructions, metal-organic frameworks, can be used to harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyze chemical reactions.” You can read the full article here.

According to Berkeley News, the Nobel Prize committee honored Prof. Clarke’s team “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit.” The discovery laid the foundation for superconducting quantum bits, or qubits, at the heart of many of today’s quantum computers. Congrats once again to UC Berkeley professors receiving these prestigious awards.

CHICAGO AND OTHER CAA CHAPTERS FEATURED IN ALUMNI MAGAZINE ARTICLE

The CACC and other regional chapters of the Cal Alumni Association were all featured in this comprehensive round-up of summer alumni activities in the most recent alumni magazine edition. Summer welcome parties were the main thrust of the October 1 article, and the article featured activity from the following alumni chapters:

Lake Tahoe Alumni Club | Berkeley Chinese Alumni International Association | Cal Alumni Club of Florida | Berkeley Student Cooperative Alumni Association | Black Engineering Science Alumni Club | Cal Alumni Chapter of Southern Nevada | Cal Alumni Club of Austin | Cal Alumni Club of Chicago | Cal Alumni Club of Southern Nevada | Club Alumni Club of Fresno | Cal Alumni Club of Houston | Cal Alumni Club of Long Beach | Cal Alumni Club of Marin | Cal Alumni Club of the Monterey Peninsula | Cal Alumni Club of New England | Cal Alumni Club of New York | Cal Alumni Club of Washington D.C. | Cal Alumni of Los Angeles | Cal Bears in the Desert | Black Alumni Association | Cal Club of San Joaquin County | Central Coast Cal Alumni Chapter | Chicanx Latinx Alumni Association, Bay Area | Motor City Cal Alumni Association of Southeast Michigan | Napa Valley Cal Alumni Club | Native and Indigenous Alumni Chapter | Orange County Cal Alumni Club | Portland Cal Alumni Club | Pilipinx (Pilipino) American Alumni Chapter | Colorado Alumni | Sac Cal Alumni | San Diego Cal Alumni | San Gabriel Valley Cal Alumni Club 

2025 CAL ALUMNI CLUB OF CHICAGO T-SHIRTS FOR SALE

Show your Cal spirit in Chicago by purchasing a Cal Alumni Club of Chicago t-shirt for $35 plus shipping. We’ve had alumni wear them at social events, volunteer activities, new admitted student receptions, and Golden Bear football games. Email calalumniassociationchicago@gmail.com for orders.

About

We are an officially chartered chapter of the California Alumni Association bringing together Cal alums form the greater Chicagoland area and surrounding Midwest states. 

The Cal Alumni Club of Chicago organizes social activities, game watches and volunteer events for Alumni throughout the year. We also work with the University to coordinate and host a Summer Welcome Party for the new Midwest Cal students.

If you are interested in getting involved, sign-up for our events  and please email us at  calalumniassociationchicago<at>gmail.com.  Sign-up for our monthly newsletter below.