Christine Lee

A team of UC Berkeley researchers recently discovered a natural alternative to current contraceptives, which can potentially cause side effects for both women and men, according to a campus press release.

Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and incoming Chancellor Carol Christ sent out a campuswide email Friday announcing Diana Harvey’s appointment as the next associate vice chancellor for communications and public affairs.

The City Council meeting taking place this Tuesday evening will discuss the proclamation of May 2017 as a Month of Inclusion, in addition to items related to the Berkeley Police Department and Board of Library Trustees.

A Nixle alert sent out about 7:19 p.m. Thursday evening by Berkeley Police Department requested community members’ assistance in identifying three men who are wanted for alleged violent assaults from an earlier Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park demonstration.

Four Berkeley Unified School District students filed a class action lawsuit Tuesday against BUSD, the BUSD Board of Education and several BUSD and BUSD Board of Education administrators for allegedly failing to serve students with reading disabilities, such as dyslexia.

The actions of UC Berkeley administration regarding Ann Coulter’s pending visit to campus have generated heavy criticism from many community members, who are alleging that the administration is violating First Amendment rights. There have been numerous misconceptions surrounding the highly controversial issue.

Robert Bea, having just returned from the Oakland Airport, walked straight from his taxi into a classroom full of medicine and engineering students and presented them one equation for disaster: A + B = C.

The University of California filed an appeal April 12 to overturn the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s, or PTAB’s, decision that there was no interference between the university’s and the Broad’s patent applications for CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology.

Ben Manilla, a lecturer and director of audio at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and his wife Eliza Lape contracted rat lungworm disease, a brain-invading parasite, in January while vacationing in Hawaii, as first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Friday that it had reached the H-1B visa cap of 65,000 for fiscal year 2018 less than a week after applications opened April 3.