After more than two years of detention in Iranian prison, two UC Berkeley alumni were sentenced to eight years in prison Saturday, though supporters from throughout the world have stepped forward to declare their innocence and remain hopeful that they will be released. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were convicted Read More…
A lawsuit filed by the UC Board of Regents against 15 members of Occupy the Farm was dropped Wednesday, following an announcement from the university. Read More…
UC Berkeley alumnus, former University of Minnesota faculty member, and domestic violence expert Jeffrey Edleson begins his term as dean of campus School of Social Welfare in August. Read More…
Five UC Berkeley professional schools and the UC Berkeley Extension will develop cutting-edge tools for online education thanks to a $1 million gift from a campus foundation, officials announced Tuesday. Over the next 18 months, the five schools and extension will use the money from the Chamberlin Family Donor Designated Read More…
A UC Berkeley alumnus found a $2 trillion calculation error used by a major credit rating agency to decide on a historical downgrade of the United States’ credit rating. John Bellows, acting assistant secretary of economic policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury who received his Ph.D. in economics Read More…
Three University of California campuses have received $5.4 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to fund nuclear energy research over the next several years, beginning what some researchers have said will be a transformation in the way nuclear energy is generated in this country. As part of the department’s Read More…
UC Berkeley faculty will have a new option for back-up child care near campus with the grand opening this week of the Bright Horizons at Bayer child care center in Berkeley. Last summer the campus partnered with Bright Horizons Family Solutions to offer back-up care — temporary in-home or in-center Read More…
In the midst of repeated cuts in state funding to the state’s higher education institutions, the University of California experienced growth in endowment funds last fiscal year, potentially providing additional financial support to students and faculty. The UC’s endowment assets — which are composed of money or property that is Read More…
Though a new beverage contract with PepsiCo Inc. has yet to be signed, the campus has recently begun to sell the company’s products with the expectation of signing a contract in the near future. The campus’s prior contract with Coca-Cola Co. expired Aug. 3 after a 10-year term, but campus Read More…
With the new Student-Athlete High Performance Center set to open in a few weeks, members of the Berkeley community voiced their concern with the entire Memorial Stadium construction process at Tuesday night’s public hearing to discuss the project’s Environmental Impact Report. The performance center — a project estimated to cost Read More…
