Aliyah Mohammed

UC Berkeley researchers have discovered a correlation between a poor night’s rest and deterioration in brain function, opening the possibility that an elderly person’s long term memory can be improved through sleep.

A recent California state auditor’s report, which investigated matters such as bribery, conspiracy to commit fraud and improper overtime pay, singled out an employee at the University of California’s Office of the President for receiving what it calls “wasteful” reimbursement for travel expenses.

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill that would eliminate the current diversity visa program and will instead reallocate green cards to foreign postgraduate students attending American universities.

Four groups of students from the UC Berkeley Extension’s Effective Marketing Essentials class will be challenged to convince potential consumers to buy the group’s assigned flavor of kale chips from the campus bookstore Thursday from 1 to 4 p.m.

Berkeley residents gathered in front of the Downtown Berkeley Post Office in protest of proposed plans to sell the historic building and relocate the post office.

UC Berkeley students and city residents turned out at the polls en mass Tuesday night to cast their vote, while just under half of Alameda County’s mail-in and provisional ballots continue to be tabulated.

Campus organizations are making a final effort to ensure that students know where to cast their votes Tuesday.

The city of Berkeley sees a number of business openings and closures during the course of a year. Here is a brief update on recent happenings in local business.

The Breathmobile held its second free clinic at Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley Monday for students with asthma symptoms.