The financial future of the largest captive group of hyenas in the world, which UC Berkeley researchers have studied for over two decades, looks uncertain as federal funding runs out. The hyena colony faces an impending expiration of a grant from the National Science Foundation in 2013, and its grant Read More…
Halloween decoration was not racist at all Our country unfortunately has had a long and sad history of prejudice against African Americans. However, the recent allegation of racial prejudice against the Theta Delta Chi fraternity is unfounded and unacceptable in today’s society. TDC had a zombie that had been hung Read More…
While the focus Tuesday was on the national election and some statewide measures, voters also made decisions with local implications. Alameda County Measure A1 Measure A1, which would have established a 25-year tax to raise money for the Oakland Zoo, did not receive the two-thirds supermajority it needed to pass. Read More…
Along with Director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Science Center Ronald Cohen, graduate students Virginia Teige and Katja Weichsel are building and installing Oakland’s first carbon dioxide sensor network across the city, already streaming the data from nine locations hourly to the web. Read More…
