Bo Kovitz

A helicopter flew over Berkeley and the surrounding Bay Area at low altitude on Wednesday, as part of a federal research project to measure natural background radiation.

City officials confirmed Monday that a UC Berkeley student diagnosed with measles had spent time on campus, in the community and on public transportation before being isolated.

The grant recipients are part of the Zhang Lab, led by UC Berkeley professor of mechanical engineering Xiang Zhang, in which researchers will use the $2 million grant to build devices at the nanometer scale and exploit the electronic and optical properties of two-dimensional materials.

Two UC students were robbed Wednesday night near Clark Kerr Campus, campus police reported.

Campus police are currently investigating a sexual assault crime occurred earlier this month, according to a crime alert released Tuesday.

Berkeley Police Department was notified at 12:13 a.m. of the incident, in which the 53-year old female victim, who was walking near the intersection of Durant Avenue and Fulton Street, was approached by the robbery suspect and struggled to maintain possession of her purse.

Emergency responders quelled a fire near Tilden Park on Sunday after a vegetation fire erupted in the Berkeley-Oakland hills early that morning.

The hundreds of homeless youth in Berkeley remain largely invisible. Often, these youth who face poverty were raised locally, grew up attending Berkeley schools and are without access to many services in the city, such as affordable housing.

The ASUC Judicial Council issued a censure against CalSERVE senate candidate Benedicto Llave for violating ASUC bylaws regarding unsolicited emails during campaigning.

A female student was the victim of a sexual assault at a fraternity in Berkeley.