Alumni spotlight: Jessie Tseng
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Jessie Tseng started her Daily Cal career as a designer during her first semester on campus in 2007, and she ascended the ranks of the design department.
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Musical artist Suzanne Ciani feeds deepfake program below Morrison Hall
Deep below Morrison Hall, quadraphonic artist Suzanne Ciani sat in a soundproof recording studio reciting strings of non sequiturs with varying intonations to train a deepfake program.
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Pyro’s Pastrami pop-up paves path to permanent deli location in Berkeley
Pyro’s Pastrami, an Oakland-based sandwich pop-up, will soon purvey pastramis on rye for Berkeley residents’ procurement in a new permanent deli.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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