ASUC President Connor Landgraf (right) and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the opening of a campus ‘hackerspace.’

New hackerspace opens in Cory Hall

Texas Instruments partnered with UC Berkeley to open the Texas Instruments Electronics Design Lab on the first and second floors of Cory Hall. The “hackerspace” is open to all students but is dedicated to electrical engineering and computer science majors.
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Students, alumni attend Clinton Global Initiative Conference

This past weekend a group of eighteen UC Berkeley students attended the Clinton Global Initiative University in St. Louis, an annual gathering of some of the leading figures in government, the private sector, NGOs as well as innovative students from universities around the country who aim to combat some of the world’s most pressing problems. Read More…

Residents battle against bedbugs

Unit 2 residents reported a case of bedbug bites in Griffiths Hall last week, prompting campus officials to act fast in order to prevent the pests’ spread. On Tuesday, dogs trained to detect bedbugs sniffed out rooms on the eighth floor, the location of the latest outbreak. Heat treatment will Read More…