Austin Weinstein

Chancellor Carol Christ hired Collegiate Sports Associates, or CSA, a sports consulting and search firm, on Nov. 15 to help cut costs and create revenue in Cal Athletics as the department faces concerns about its long-term financial sustainability.

Cal football suffered a drastic year-to-year attendance drop this season after home games at California Memorial Stadium brought in an average of 36,548 fans per game — a 22 percent drop from last year’s average of 46,628.

Carol Christ proposed the campus take on the portion of Cal Athletics’ debt stemming from the seismic costs of the 2012 renovation of California Memorial Stadium.

The result of an investigation which began in 2014, the report found that the campus violated the UC’s Title IX compliance policy when it converted the home field of the field hockey team into a practice field for the football team with no plan in place for a new field hockey space.

Facing an anticipated budget shortfall of $16 million in Cal Athletics, former chancellor Nicholas Dirks authorized spending up to $20 million to close its deficit for fiscal year 2017.

At UC Berkeley, Pfizer sponsors research into drug development strategy. Intel supports secure computing research. Novartis backs research targeting “undruggable diseases.”

UC Berkeley has added a number of new facilities and details to Underhill Field, mostly finishing a long-uncompleted settlement with the Cal women’s field hockey team.

For the first time in memory, UC Berkeley agreed in March to be placed under indefinite federal Title IX monitoring as a result of an investigation into alleged Title IX violations against the Cal women’s field hockey team.

The positioning of Alivisatos, who interviewed for the chancellor position, invites the question: Does he want to be UC Berkeley’s next Chancellor?

A series of interviews and lab visits by The Daily Californian show what it’s like to work inside some of UC Berkeley's most high-level labs.