Berkeley mayor Tom Bates (left) shakes hands with Jeff Oxendine, associate dean for public health practice, at the Volunteer Mobilization day kick-off.

Mayor Bates addresses students at the kick-off ceremony. Left to right: Mayor Tom Bates, Michelle Odden, Emily Cotter, Sally Lawrence, Alicia Scribner, Brie Cadman, Lauren Ralph.

Left to right: Julie Sinai, senior aide to the mayor, Berkeley; Denise Herd associate dean for student affairs; Jeff Oxendine, associate dean for public health practice; Dean Stephen Shortell.

(Left to right): Mayor Tom Bates, Kimi Sakashita, M.P.H. '94, Dean Stephen Shortell.

At the Women's Daytime Drop-in Center in Berkeley, public health student Korin Lee (left) prepares lunch with Janna Wertz, a social work student from Cal State East Bay.

Volunteers pitch in to spruce up People's Park. Left to right: People's Park site coordinator Devin Woolridge, students Alicia Scribner, Gail St. John, Alberto Ortega, and Margaret Warton.

Eddy Jara gets to work at the Malcolm X School Garden.