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Vending of new partner’s drinks begins at UC Berkeley

Pepsi vending machine
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Jeppe Lund Christoffersen purchases a beverage from a Pepsi vending machine in the Unit 2 residence hall complex. The campus has begun selling Pepsi products.

Though a new beverage contract with PepsiCo Inc. has yet to be signed, the campus has recently begun to sell the company’s products with the expectation of signing a contract in the near future. The campus’s prior contract with Coca-Cola Co. expired Aug. 3 after a 10-year term, but campus Read More…

Campus

Trucks featuring the Pepsi logo were parked outside the Recreational Sports Facility and Evans Diamond on Wednesday. The campus will likely enter a 10-year contract with the beverage company on Thursday.

New campus beverage contract with Pepsi is likely

UC Berkeley’s 10-year beverage contract with Coca-Cola Co., which has previously been highly scrutinized by some students on campus, expired Wednesday and will likely be followed by a new contract with PepsiCo Inc. In May, the university released a request for proposal which stated the minimum requirements necessary for beverage Read More…

UC

UC professional schools seek to ease student financial burden

Due to a sudden increase in systemwide student fees, several professional schools at campuses throughout the University of California are seeking ways to help ease the financial burden and anxiety of their students. Last week, both UC Berkeley and UCLA’s law schools announced that they will offer scholarships to their Read More…

Notes from the Field

Scientists reproduce sound from 123-year-old phonograph

A 12-second recording from what is believed to be the first surviving talking doll could be the first-ever commercial recording, according to historians. The audio, posted online on July 6 by the National Parks Service, was captured on a 123-year-old cylinder phonograph. The recording featured an unidentified woman reciting one Read More…

News

Theodore Roszak

‘Counterculture’ novelist dies in Berkeley at 77

Theodore Roszak, a historian, social critic and novelist, known for popularizing the term “counterculture” during the social upheavals of the 1960s, died July 5 at his home in Berkeley from cancer. He was 77. The son of a carpenter in a Polish community, Roszak was born in Chicago on Nov. Read More…

Research & Ideas

Chris Tiu, a power supply engineer, works on a project at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory, which collaborated with NASA to move a probe into orbit around the moon.

Probe built by UC Berkeley enters orbit around the moon

The second of two probes built by UC Berkeley successfully entered orbit around the moon on Sunday, after a two-year journey from its original orbit around Earth. The probe is part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s ARTEMIS mission, the first mission to ever use a pair of satellites Read More…

Campus

Obama to appoint UC Berkeley professor to cultural advisory committee

President Barack Obama announced Friday his intent to appoint a UC Berkeley anthropology professor to a cultural property committee. Rosemary Joyce, who is also a former museum director and campus anthropology department chair, is “one of the world’s leading experts on Honduran archaeology,” according to a statement from the Office Read More…