Times of India | Meet Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra: The man who heads a $1 trillion tech giant after being denied US visa three times

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Sanjay Mehrotra, the Indian‑born CEO of Micron Technology, rose from a youthful dream of studying in the United States to leading a company now valued at over $1 trillion. After being turned down three times for a U.S. visa in 1976, his father’s persistence secured his entry, allowing Mehrotra to attend UC Berkeley for electrical engineering and later co‑found SanDisk in 1988. He grew SanDisk into a Fortune 500 firm, overseeing its $16 billion sale to Western Digital, and in 2017 became Micron’s chief executive. Under his leadership, Micron’s stock has surged nearly 3,000 %, propelled by the exploding demand for high‑performance memory chips essential to artificial‑intelligence applications, cementing Mehrotra as a pivotal figure in global technology.

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｢ More than 600 University of California faculty members, led by mathematicians at UC Berkeley, are calling on the system to reinstate standardized testing requirements for science, technology, engineering and mathematics applicants, saying that six years of test-free admissions has not reliably assessed readiness and professors are often teaching middle school math to incoming students ｣

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-27/uc-math-professors-demand-return-of-sat-for-stem-admissions

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Just a small snippet from this brilliant speech. #VietThanhNguyen #CommencementSpeech #UCBerkeley #writer #EnglishMajor #immigrant

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“While our job as professors has been to teach you, what makes being a professor so rewarding, especially in a place like this, is that we are also learning from you.”

Professor Robert Reich reflects on his time at Berkeley as he delivers his keynote address to the graduating Class of 2026 at Spring Commencement.

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Via @rbreich on Instagram:

“While our job as professors has been to teach you, what makes being a professor so rewarding, especially in a place like this, is that we are also learning from you.”

Professor Robert Reich reflects on his time at Berkeley as he delivers his keynote address to the graduating Class of 2026 at Spring Commencement.

🔗 See the full speech and more Commencement highlights at the link in our bio.

#UCBerkeley #CalGrad

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Just finished watching "The Last Class" about the last semester of @rbreich teaching at #UCBerkeley #GreatMovie #Teaching

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Today in Labor History May 15, 1969: Police fought students in the Battle for People's Park at the University of California Berkeley, California. The battle was over a small strip of land that the students had claimed as community commons. Governor Ronald Reagan sent in National Guards to reclaim the Park. Police gunfire killed a bystander, James Rector, and wounded 60 others, including Alan Blanchard, who was blinded for life. Street fighting continued for 17 days. Another 150 demonstrators would be shot and wounded. The battle for the park has continued ever since, with the university continuing to claim ownership and threatening to turn the park into everything from units of student housing to a parking lot. The defenders of the park have done numerous direct actions over the past 55 years to defend the park, provide mutual aid, provide free food and clothes to unhoused folks, and offer community classes. In 1992, cops shot and killed Park Defender Rosebud Denovo, after she broke into the basement of the residence of UC Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien. As recently as 2024, the cops have attacked, beaten, and/or arrested park defenders. Also in that year, the California Supreme Court sided with the University and its plans to build student housing on the park. In 2025, the university announced that the new housing would be named after Disability Rights activist Judy Heumann.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #PeoplesPark #berkeley #students #protest #activism #homelessness #reagan #PoliceBrutality #police #acab #studentprotest #university #UCBerkeley #judyjeumann