Brittany Judoprasetijo is accustomed being one of only a handful of women sprinkled across male-dominated engineering classes. “Usually, it doesn’t bother me,” said Judoprasetijo, a UC Berkeley senior majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. “Of course, it does get kind of lonely.” Judoprasetijo is one of many students in Read More…
After months of clicking through college websites and digging through brochures to decide which universities to apply to, thousands of hopefuls will start submitting their application to UC Berkeley in the next 15 days. Just in time for the Nov. 1 opening of the UC undergraduate application submission portal, UC Berkeley has launched a new Read More…
A recent Albany City Council vote has removed a hurdle in the University of California’s plans for the development of a grocery store, senior housing complex and mixed-retail center on UC-owned land in Albany. Read More…
A year ago on Nov. 15, thousands stood shoulder-to-shoulder on the steps of Sproul Plaza as the words of UC Berkeley public policy professor Robert Reich rang out.
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Kiavash and his older sister, who also came to campus at the age of 12, are the youngest students to enroll at UC Berkeley in at least 17 years. Read More…
A massive blue banner looms over Terminal 2’s security checkpoint at the Oakland International Airport. “By the time you reach your destination we’ll probably have a new invention,” it reads. “UC researchers average 4 inventions a day — constantly moving California forward.” “It’s clever,” said Arnold Asuncion, a chemical engineering Read More…
A golden bear adorned reddit.com’s front page Monday, in celebration of UC Berkeley’s third-place finish in a competition tracking the growth of college subreddits. Reddit — a social news microblogging website where users can submit content and rank posts up or down to decide what posts are on the website’s Read More…
Despite UC Berkeley’s history of large-scale student demonstrations and controversial police responses, reports investigating recent protests suggest little has been done to change response policy between protests.
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The Berkeley Unified School District rescinded 148 potential layoff notices due to an unanticipated growth in student attendance this year, which helped fill almost half of the next school year’s projected budget gap in the district. In contrast to fiscal year 2010-11 — during which time the district lost more Read More…
The Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate is currently holding elections for members of its Divisional Council and the Committee on Committees, as well as voting on a proposal asking the UC Board of Regents to support legislation prioritizing public higher education funding. The ballot — which opened March 13 Read More…
