The city will hold its first Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony at the downtown Berkeley BART Plaza Friday as part of the annual holiday decorations. Read More…
UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business was ranked the ninth best business school in the nation, according to a list released by MBA50.com. MBA50, a website focused on business schools, released the rankings on Nov. 20, keeping Haas in the same position as in 2011. “We know we have a Read More…
The city of Berkeley sees a number of business openings and closures during the course of a year. Here is a brief update on recent happenings in local business. Read More…
The ASUC Senate is set to meet again Wednesday evening. Among the new business for the senate is a bill in support of Proposition 36, a ballot measure seeking to change California’s “Three Strikes” Law, and another bill in support of exempting campus student cooperative houses from the city of Berkeley’s affordable housing Read More…
While much of the attention this weekend was on the Cal upset of UCLA, Homecoming Weekend drew thousands of people to dozens of other events, including a campuswide Instagram photo contest and scavenger hunt, faculty seminars and campus tours. The weekend began on Friday. A noontime rally in front of Read More…
Two recent UC Berkeley graduates are offering a shuttle from Berkeley to the San Francisco and Oakland airports for as little as $10 to promote a startup they began shortly after graduating.
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While the focus Tuesday was on the national election and some statewide measures, voters also made decisions with local implications. Alameda County Measure A1 Measure A1, which would have established a 25-year tax to raise money for the Oakland Zoo, did not receive the two-thirds supermajority it needed to pass. Read More…
Two UC Berkeley graduate students who developed a more efficient way to harvest biofuel from algae have been chosen as winners of a $10,000 grand prize through a competition sponsored by Dow Chemical Company. Berkeley is one of 17 campuses worldwide that participates in Dow’s Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award, Read More…
Berkeley’s local election ballot for this November includes candidates running for the BART Board of Directors with a focus on issues of public transit safety and maintenance. Read More…
Demonstrators set up a mock jail cell on Sproul Plaza on Wednesday to protest inhumane treatment of prisoners in California, an issue officials from the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation say is much more complicated than the demonstration let on.
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