Campus launches Berkeley Discovery Initiative for undergraduates

The goal of the campuswide plan is to ensure every undergraduate has the opportunity to pursue creative, independent “discovery projects.”
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The goal of the campuswide plan is to ensure every undergraduate has the opportunity to pursue creative, independent “discovery projects.”
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The American Community Survey, or ACS, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that the city of Berkeley has a median age of 31.1 years old — the youngest of the Bay Area’s 15 most populous cities.
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NASA has selected the Compton Spectrometer and Imager, or COSI, mission, led by the Space Sciences Laboratory, or SSL, at UC Berkeley, to head the development of a new telescope aimed at understanding the evolution of the Milky Way galaxy.
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The City of Berkeley, in conjunction with the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority, or WETA, is planning to potentially reopen the Berkeley Pier for ferry service.
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An elementary school in Marin County experienced an outbreak of the COVID-19 delta variant, associated with a teacher who was unvaccinated and unmasked at times.
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Amid the ebb and flow of private funding that occurs every year, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an increase in private donations to UC Berkeley to support the campus community.
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The Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, Board of Education met Wednesday to hear public comments, go over school reopening and graduation plans and receive an update from its Office of Family Engagement and Equity, or OFEE.
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California has recorded about 1,400 breakthrough cases of COVID-19 in fully vaccinated people from Jan. 1 through April 21.
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A state appellate court ruled April 20 that a proposed housing and retail complex can be built in the parking lot on a sacred Ohlone shellmound and historic village in West Berkeley.
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Catherine Koshland, a member of the UC Berkeley community since 1984, has agreed to serve as the interim executive vice chancellor and provost, while campus launches a nationwide search for a permanent replacement for Paul Alivisatos per campus policy.
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