Logan Goldberg

David Maldonado stood above the crowd that had packed into Anna Head Alumnae Hall — a crowd that included the mayor of Berkeley, a former campus chancellor, a California state senator, Maldonado’s smiling wife and kids and his fellow graduates — and changed the song. On top of everything else, he was the graduation DJ.

Marandah Field-Elliot — who ran for senate with SQUELCH! in the recent ASUC election — will likely fill the vacant ASUC Senate seat following Guillermo Perez’s resignation, the ASUC Elections Council announced Thursday.

Guillermo Perez, an ASUC senator-elect with SQUELCH!, submitted a letter of resignation to the ASUC Judicial Council on Tuesday, according to an ASUC release.

UC Berkeley scientists involved in the development of a new NASA satellite have built and shipped several of the satellite’s components to Utah, where they will undergo testing until early this summer.

A team of UC Berkeley neuroscientists have used advanced microscopy techniques to capture images of the brains of mice as they learned to problem-solve, according to a study published in Nature Communications on Monday.

Union members gathered in front of California Hall on Tuesday afternoon to protest the December layoffs in UC Berkeley’s Campus Shared Services and submit a petition signed by those in opposition to the staff reduction.

The UC Board of Regents appointed Michael Witherell, current vice chancellor for research at UC Santa Barbara, as director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on Thursday.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office agreed Monday to decide whether a UC Berkeley research team will be awarded the rights to the groundbreaking CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which could be worth billions of dollars and serve as the foundation for the burgeoning field of gene editing.

A team of UC Berkeley researchers presented the first-ever structural model of a protein factor believed to play a crucial role in the expression of the defining genes in embryonic stem cells.

UC Berkeley professors and experts from 10 different fields of study debunk the common myths they’ve heard about their disciplines.