Local election results have big implications

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…

Graduate students awarded $10,000 for biofuel project

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…

Oct. 10 ASUC Senate annotated meeting agenda

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…