Eight UC Berkeley students will each receive $5,000 a year as part of the STEM Scholarship Program, a new undergraduate program that will provide financial aid to students interested in pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and math. Read More…
Many students filed into Wheeler Auditorium for their Friday afternoon computer science class expecting to find a seat —they just didn’t expect that seat to be the floor. Read More…
On Tuesday the federal government dismissed a complaint that UC Berkeley administrators did not do enough to curb “an environment hostile to Jewish students” as a result of student demonstrations against Israeli policies. Read More…
At first glance, language in UC Berkeley’s student health insurance plan appears to exclude injuries incurred during riot participation. The clause, nestled in the plan’s benefit booklet, was mistakenly included when the campus entered into a contract with a new health insurance provider, Aetna, this summer. Read More…
After eight years as UC Berkeley’s dean of students, Jonathan Poullard will step down from the position on September 13. Read More…
The U.S. Department of Education has dismissed a complaint against UC Berkeley that alleged that the campus did not do enough to curb a hostile campus climate created by student protests against Israel’s policies. Read More…
Chancellor Nicholas Dirks introduced a number of programs and initiatives to be implemented during his first year at UC Berkeley in a press conference Monday afternoon. Read More…
Campers and staff members at the Lair of the Golden Bear camp were evacuated Thursday after an air quality alert was issued as the result of a nearby wildfire, according to a press release from the Cal Alumni Association, which owns the camp. Read More…
She follows in the footstep of Mark Zuckerberg and the co-founders of Google, yet she is no millionaire tech CEO. Rather she is the Innovation Director of the UC Berkeley Blum Center for Developing Economies.
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The campus announced Tuesday its launch of Berkeley Connect, an academic program that aims to provide undergraduate students with a more personal means of connecting with professors and graduate students within their major. Read More…