Roughly one half of the friendly faces serving you at your local fast-food chain rely on public assistance programs to survive, according to a report by UC Berkeley and University of Illinois researchers published Tuesday. Read More…
Geoff Marcy says he has spent his career chasing the “stuff of science fiction.” Marcy, a campus astronomy professor, is one of four UC Berkeley researchers who may have a shot at this year’s Nobel Prize, according to Thomson Reuters, a firm that annually predicts contenders for the award. Read More…
A scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory won a MacArthur “genius grant” on Wednesday for his efforts to restore historic audio recordings. Read More…
A former employee of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was convicted of possession of child pornography on Thursday. Read More…
The Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israeli Law, Economy and Society, has won a grant that will allow it to augment the resources it provides to the campus. Read More…
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been denied a $1.5 billion contract from the U.S. Department of Energy to build the world’s most advanced X-ray microscope. Read More…
In a hearing Tuesday, UC Berkeley administrators sought dismissal from a lawsuit that alleges they were complicit in the police response to the Fall 2011 Occupy Cal protests. Read More…
While users may enjoy the Twitter microblogging app’s ability to quickly and easily share nuggets of info with thousands of people, they may be just as horrified to discover what other information they are unknowingly releasing to the world, say a group of researchers affiliated with UC Berkeley. Read More…
Local marijuana advocates are hopeful that cannabis-related regulation will become less stringent in the wake of a federal government memo released last week. Read More…
An announcement made by the Obama Administration last week marks a turning point in the federal government’s approach to marijuana use and sale. Read More…