Leon Chen

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Student social networking app Amigo comes to UC Berkeley

Amigo is a social networking app that was developed by Paa Adu and Sophia Huard in order to help students connect with each other amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The app, which was released to students at UC Berkeley on Sunday, currently has more than 500 users at Stanford University.

Amigo, a social networking app intended to help students connect and make friends during the COVID-19 pandemic, was released to Berkeley students Sunday.
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City

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Berkeley City Council votes on measure to strengthen eviction moratorium

About two million California residents were behind on rent payments in August, a UC Berkeley study by campus professor Carolina Reid estimated.
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Alameda County

Friday, December 4, 2020

COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to rise in Alameda County

COVID-19 rates are once again rising in Berkeley and Alameda County, with 195 patients hospitalized in Alameda County, 58 of which are in intensive care units, as of Wednesday.
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Campus

Friday, November 20, 2020

UC Berkeley students, faculty react to unnaming of Barrows Hall, LeConte Hall

Campus officials announced Wednesday that Barrows Hall and LeConte Hall will be unnamed due to the racist history behind their namesakes.
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Research & Ideas

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Life expectancies continue to decrease for Americans, research shows

Research shows that life expectancies are declining in the United States, with richer Americans’ life expectancies plateauing.
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Research & Ideas

Friday, November 13, 2020

Researchers advance understanding of magnetic computer chip data

Researchers from UC Berkeley, among other institutions, have found that magnetic data stored on computer chips could be switched quickly, opening up opportunities for future computer chip memory.
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State

Friday, November 6, 2020

CA Prop. 16’s failure draws criticism from activists, UC community members

Proposition 16, which would have allowed the consideration of race and sex in public university admissions and state employment, failed in this year’s election, drawing criticism from student activists and community members of the UC system.
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Obituary

Thursday, October 29, 2020

‘A wonderful and generous mentor’: UC Berkeley professor Richard Calendar dies at age 80

Richard Calendar, a UC Berkeley professor in the department of molecular and cell biology, or MCB, died Oct. 10 at the age of 80.
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Thursday, October 22, 2020

UC system to build biomethane plant, solar array for renewable energy

The UC system has partnered with two energy companies to construct a biomethane plant and solar array to help bring it closer to its carbon neutrality goal by 2025.
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