The following is a sample of crime in Berkeley this week, provided by the Berkeley Police Department. Stolen Car – Ward & Grant Streets A Berkeley man said he parked his car at the intersection of Ward and Grant Streets on Sunday, July 10 at about 9:00 p.m. When he Read More…
With the UC Board of Regents slated to vote on a controversial fee hike at their meeting Thursday, UC officials and students are citing different figures for the actual size of the increase. While UC officials and most media outlets have said tuition will rise 9.6 percent increase, student leaders Read More…
Two UCPD police officials, whose instinct and quick thinking brought about the discovery and rescue of then 29-year-old Jaycee Dugard in August 2009, responded to the ABC News broadcast of Diane Sawyer’s prime-time special “The Jaycee Dugard Interview”, that aired on television Sunday.
The UC Board of Regents will meet on Wednesday and Thursday for the remainder of their three-day meeting at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus, where a wide range of issues spanning the diversity of the university’s student body to a controversial tuition increase spurred by the state’s increased cuts Read More…
Both Alameda and Richmond will do just about anything to be chosen as the location for the second campus of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, including displaying billboards and lawn signs all over their cities to make for stronger advertising campaigns. The lab will be building a second campus to complement Read More…
A recent study by American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research identified that the rise in college tuition stems from the ways in which traditional colleges and universities organize and allocate resources, and not lavish university facilities and extra student services. The author, Oklahoma State University professor Vance Fried, stated Read More…
An email from the UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau distributed this morning reminded UC Berkeley faculty and staff of the university’s policy on whistleblowing, listing additional resources for how to report improper activities and promising protection for whistleblowers. A whistleblower is a person who tells the public or someone in Read More…
The Downtown Berkeley Association announced yesterday plans for a free outdoor summer movie series in the Downtown during the month of August. At the event, which is called the Center Street Summer Cinema, movies will be shown for free on Saturday evenings in August in the Bank of America parking Read More…
The following message regarding the retirement of ASUC Auxiliary Director Nadesan Permaul was sent to the campus community this morning: We are announcing today the retirement of Dr. Nadesan Permaul, the Director of the A.S.U.C. Auxiliary. Nad has been employed at Berkeley for 33 years during which he has held Read More…
Krishna K. Niyogi, a professor in plant and microbial biology in the College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley, has been selected as one of 15 scientists nationwide for a new program that is part of an initiative to boost funding for fundamental plant research. According to a press statement Read More…
