Levon Minassian

A settlement has been reached with the UC Board of Regents over a case regarding a 2008 UCLA lab fire that left a 23-year-old student worker dead from burn injuries.

Though UC Berkeley is making efforts to stay on the frontlines of online education, some campus faculty believe the university could do more to provide better online education for its students.

The UC Board of Regents voted Wednesday to officially endorse Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax initiative, and in doing so affirmed the tuition freeze afforded by the $125.4 million tuition buyout included in the recently passed state budget.

UC Berkeley physicists held the panel discussion, “The Higgs Boson Explained: What is the Higgs and Why is Everyone So Excited About it?,” to explain the Higgs boson, a newfound elementary particle that had been theorized over for more than 50 years.

Japanese high school students who survived the earthquake and tsunami last year will come to UC Berkeley for a leadership camp later this month.

A letter sent July 2 from Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and UC President Mark Yudof among other university leaders to President Barack Obama asks for legislation to help foreign born students stay in the country when their student visas expire.

Governor Brown finalized the state budget when he signed it Wednesday night. However, as of press time, it remains unclear whether he approved the bill that would allocate the funds to the UC and CSU.

Imprint Energy, a new start-up founded by campus graduates Christine Ho and Brooks Kincaid, has created printable batteries through a process called “screen printing” — the same type of industrial printing which is used to print t-shirts or other high volume materials