Eric Rogers

City, Pride 2021

Thursday, June 17, 2021

Berkeley police officers don LGBTQ+ Pride pins, locals disapprove

Berkeley police department, or BPD, announced in a press release on June 1 that officers can wear queer pride pins to “support” the queer community.

A June 1 press release by Berkeley Police Department stated the officers will be allowed to wear Pride pins in support of and commitment to the LGBTQ+ community.

Berkeley Police Department, or BPD, announced in a press release June 1 that officers will be allowed to wear queer pride pins — a decision made in “commitment to, and support of,” the LGBTQ+ community.
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Sunday, June 6, 2021

UC system scientists showcase wildfire research, technologies in symposium

Scientists from across the UC system discussed California wildfire resilience in a symposium Friday.
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City

Thursday, June 3, 2021

PeopleForBikes finds Berkeley best midsized city for bikes in US

PeopleForBikes, a cycling advocacy group, announced Tuesday that Berkeley earned the top spot for best midsized city to bike in in the United States, per its 2021 city ratings.
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Campus

Monday, May 31, 2021

Venture capitalists donate $5M to diversify STEM at UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley alumna Freada Kapor Klein, a venture capitalist and social policy researcher, and her husband Mitch Kapor, founder of computer software company Lotus, donated $5 million to campus’s diversity in the STEM Excellence through Equity and Diversity Scholars Honors program.
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City Government

Thursday, May 27, 2021

Berkeley City Council discusses budget, passes public safety measures

During its regular meeting Tuesday, which started nearly two hours behind schedule and adjourned at 11:45 p.m., the Berkeley City Council discussed the 2022 fiscal year budget and approved 37 items, including traffic calming measures and Willard Park ambassadors.
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Research & Ideas

Sunday, February 7, 2021

Campus researchers sequence coronavirus genome, find several strains

Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases and the detection of new variants of the virus on campus, the Innovative Genomics Institute, or IGI, at UC Berkeley aims to sequence viral genomes to improve student safety.
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Research & Ideas

Sunday, January 24, 2021

Campus researchers find disinformation on medication abortion webpages

UC Berkeley School of Public Health researchers found that four out of the five top “abortion pill” query results on Google were less than 50% accurate.
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Research & Ideas

Sunday, January 17, 2021

UC Berkeley researchers find fences in Wyoming impact deer migration

UC Berkeley doctoral candidate Wenjing Xu published an article in the British Ecological Society Jan. 6, which analyzed how fences impacted mule and pronghorn deer migratory patterns in Wyoming.
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Campus

Friday, December 18, 2020

Postgraduates provide handmade hand sanitizer, masks to local unhoused

Common Humanity Collective, a grassroots, anarchocommunist mutual aid organization that produces and distributes personal protective equipment, or PPE, such as handmade hand sanitizer and face masks, is prepared for a surge of COVID-19 cases in coming months.
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City

Thursday, December 10, 2020

COVID-19 cases at Golden Gate Fields exceeds 300 people in past month

The Berkeley Public Health Division identified another 100 COVID-19 cases associated with Golden Gate Fields, a horse racetrack on the city’s San Francisco Bay waterfront, upon a second round of comprehensive testing.
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Eric Rogers

Berkeley police officers don LGBTQ+ Pride pins, locals disapprove

Berkeley police department, or BPD, announced in a press release on June 1 that officers can wear queer pride pins to “support” the queer community.

UC system scientists showcase wildfire research, technologies in symposium

PeopleForBikes finds Berkeley best midsized city for bikes in US

Venture capitalists donate $5M to diversify STEM at UC Berkeley

Berkeley City Council discusses budget, passes public safety measures

Campus researchers sequence coronavirus genome, find several strains

Campus researchers find disinformation on medication abortion webpages

UC Berkeley researchers find fences in Wyoming impact deer migration

Postgraduates provide handmade hand sanitizer, masks to local unhoused

COVID-19 cases at Golden Gate Fields exceeds 300 people in past month