Following a 23-year-long career with UC Berkeley, Bruce Cain, formerly a campus professor of political science and executive director of the UC Washington Center, left campus earlier this year for a position at Stanford University. Read More…
UC Berkeley has established 100 new faculty chairs and gained more than $220 million in endowment funding over the last five years as part of a fundraising challenge, UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau announced Monday. The campus completed the unprecedented Hewlett Challenge two years earlier than anticipated by raising $110 Read More…
The hotly debated Measure S failed Tuesday night, as final results showed that local voters had ultimately rejected the measure by 51.58 percent to 48.44 percent. Read More…
While the word “hermit” may conjure up images of peaceful solitude and avoidance of conflict, the terrestrial hermit crab has proven that it doesn’t quite adhere to this vision. In fact, a recent study shows that the land-dwelling hermit crab often acts in the opposite way. An October study by Read More…
Following the July settlement of a lawsuit alleging UC Berkeley administrators failed to mitigate an anti-Semitic environment on campus, Berkeley officials that they will consider implementing changes to public expression policies. Read More…
Amid concerns of high student loan rates and a trillion-dollar national student debt, an organization has teamed up with alumni from 78 different schools to develop a different model for funding student loans.
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Selected faculty members and students will meet at an on-campus stakeholders’ meeting Friday with the advisory committee chosen to recommend a replacement for outgoing UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau. At the meeting, which will be held at Clark Kerr campus, faculty members selected by the Berkeley Division of the Academic Read More…
For one undocumented UC Berkeley junior, a scholarship has meant the opportunity to dream again. Born in Japan, the student — who asked to remain anonymous to protect her immigration status — had a less-than-perfect childhood. After her family moved to California about 20 years ago, her undocumented father was Read More…
UCLA was more selective than UC Berkeley for fall 2012 in-state applicants, data from the University of California Office of the President released Tuesday show. Fall 2012 admissions rates for Californians applying to the Los Angeles campus stood at 17.7 percent this year, while the admission rate of Californian applicants Read More…
In a letter addressed to student leaders on Tuesday, state Senate Republican leader Bob Huff and Assembly Republican leader Connie Conway announced their plan to fund education through $4.4 billion dollars in budget solutions. The plan, called the “Roadmap to Protect Classrooms and Taxpayers,” would serve as an alternative to Read More…