U.S. student participation in study abroad programs has more than tripled in the past 20 years, according to a 2012 report by the Institute of International Education. This past summer, more UC Berkeley students went abroad than the year before, working and studying at countries across the globe. Many went Read More…
On May 31, after videos and word of riot police using tear gas and pressured water to disperse a group of activists protesting the destruction of the green Gezi Park in central Istanbul, Turkey, spread via Twitter and other social media sites, thousands of people flooded into the park in Read More…
Growing up, I was always the second twin. I was the one who sat for the second half of an hour-long piano lesson, the one who introduced myself after my sister, the one who said I wanted to be doctor or a veterinarian or work at a zoo when I Read More…
The voice of the campus is about to change. In June, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau will step down and make way for Nicholas Dirks, the former executive vice president and dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Columbia University. Birgeneau, who became the campus’s ninth chancellor in September 2004, Read More…
A female student was sexually battered Thursday evening on the walkway between Barker Hall and Koshland Hall at the UC Berkeley campus.
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The power went out in various buildings around the UC Berkeley campus at around 8:30 a.m. Thursday morning. Read More…
Jane Close Conoley has been selected as interim Chancellor at UC Riverside, UC officials announced Tuesday. Read More…
The UC Board of Regents is set to meet again Thursday at the UCSF Mission Bay Campus. A set of demonstrations concerned with higher education has been planned to coincide with the meeting, both on the Mission Bay campus and on the UC Berkeley campus. Read More…
The UC Board of Regents is set to meet Wednesday for the second in a three day set of meetings held this week at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus. Read More…
Columbia University’s Executive Vice President and Dean of the Faculty for Arts and Sciences Nicholas Dirks has been selected as UC Berkeley’s 10th Chancellor, UC President Mark Yudof announced Thursday. Read More…