Meera Srinivasan

UC Berkeley is exploring plans for a venture with NASA's Ames Research Center to develop a portion of the field into a mixed research and education site.

Singer taught and conducted research at UC Berkeley within both the biophysics department and the electrical engineering and computer sciences department for 25 years, earning the title of engineering science professor emeritus.

On Monday, Paramount Television film crews shut down Warring Street to film party scenes for the upcoming season of “13 Reasons Why” at a fraternity house, as previously reported by Berkeleyside. 

Prior to his appointment at BART, Powers worked as an executive for the Seattle Department of Transportation and the Baltimore City Department of Transportation. In addition to his experience in other cities, Powers has seven years under his belt working at BART. 

On Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 233, a bill that prohibits prostitution-related arrests of people who witness or are victims of certain violent crimes and that prevents condoms from being used as evidence of sex work. 

As part of an ongoing bargaining process with the UC system, one group from the Academic Researchers United/United Automobile Workers Local 5810 union rallied outside UCSF’s Genentech Hall while another group met with UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla to discuss the objectives and challenges of academic researchers, or ARs. 

Vessel provides free reusable cups to consumers through an app and allows customers to keep the cups for up to five days before returning them to any participating business. Once implemented, Vessel will be available at at least 10 businesses on and around the UC Berkeley campus.

The board met Wednesday to review the 2019-20 budget, appoint Jamaal Muwwakkil as the 2020-21 student regent and review basic needs within the UC system. 

The nine winners of the award from UC Berkeley study a wide variety of research topics that range from detecting radiation emitted after the Big Bang to examining the different ways robots can interact with humans. 

Safeway Community Markets will be rebranded once again as Andronico’s Community Markets by the end of 2019, according to Safeway spokesperson Wendy Gutshall.