Vice Chancellor for Facilities Services Ed Denton to retire
UC Berkeley vice chancellor for facility services Ed Denton announced last week that he will be retiring in January, after more than 15 years working for the campus. Read More…
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UC Berkeley places 22nd among US universities in Forbes ranking
UC Berkeley placed 22nd among US universities and 1st among public universities, according to Forbes rankings published online Wednesday. Read More…
Man is victim of armed robbery on Channing Way and Fulton Street Saturday morning
An armed robbery took place Saturday evening near the intersection of Channing Way and Fulton Street. Read More…
Armed robbery occurs at University and Shattuck avenues Saturday morning
An armed robbery took place Saturday evening near the intersection of University Avenue and Shattuck Avenue. Read More…
Berkeley Food and Housing Project awarded $1 million to fight veteran homelessness
Local non-profit organization Berkeley Food and Housing Project (BFHP) announced on Friday that they have received about $1,00o,000 from the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs as part of a $300 million nationwide effort to eradicate veterans’ homelessness. Read More…
New mobile app crunches researchers’ data
A new application developed by UC Berkeley researchers will harness mobile phones — thousands of mini-computers that often lie idle — to be used in tandem as the equivalent of a multimillion-dollar supercomputer. Read More…
Postal Service rejects appeal of main Berkeley branch sale
The US Postal Service announced a final decision Thursday to sell Berkeley’s main post office despite city and community appeals. Read More…
Berkeley researchers develop flexible touch screen
Engineers at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have taken the latest step toward making that happen, by developing a thin, pliable, plastic material called “e-skin”, that is interactive like a touchscreen, but more flexible than the rigid glass or silicon currently used in smartphones and computers. Read More…
UC Berkeley astronomers honor historic picture of Earth from Saturn
The Earth looked like a speck in the universe — a tiny pixel in vast space — in a photo taken from the perspective of a lens hovering 898 million miles away. Read More…
Study finds social mobility high in Bay Area
A new study conducted by UC Berkeley and Harvard researchers found that the chances of low-income children rising to higher income brackets as adults varies significantly across different metropolitan areas within the U.S., with the San Francisco Bay Area among the most upwardly mobile regions. Read More…