Sarah Chung

UC Berkeley alumna Chelsea Finn was announced as the winner of the 2018 Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, Doctoral Dissertation Award for her work on approaches in machine learning and robotics.

A former employee is suing the UC Board of Regents for alleged wrongful termination based on her age and gender.

Elwyn Berlekamp, a UC Berkeley professor emeritus in mathematics and electrical engineering and computer sciences, or EECS, died April 9 at his home in Piedmont, California from complications of pulmonary fibrosis. He was 78.

Sunrise Deli, a family operated business that has served the Bay Area since 1984, closed its Berkeley location to the public April 6.

Starting Monday, Bay Area Rapid Transit, or BART, began to enhance public safety by mandating police and fare inspectors to work extra hours in the service’s busiest areas in order to “bolster their visible presence and enhance public safety,” according to a BART press release.

The city of Berkeley’s Public Works Department’s Zero Waste Division held workshops March 14 and 15 to review design concepts for its new transfer station — the city’s hub for “garbage, recyclables, compost and other materials” on Second and Gilman streets, as first reported by Berkeleyside.

In a period of 24 hours, UC Berkeley alumni, parents, students and individuals from all over the world raised more than $4 million in contributions as part of Big Give 2019, an annual online fundraising event now in its fifth year, to support schools and campus programs in their initiatives and efforts.

Two North Side Oakland, or NSO, “Freezem gang members” were arrested in connection to San Pablo Park shootings that occurred in August and January, as first reported by Berkeleyside.

It’s 11:30 a.m. and the brand ambassadors for the new Bbox café stand behind their portable counter space, advising customers on how to order drinks and pastries with the help of two engineered robots: Bev and Jarvis.

The K-pop group Bangtan Sonyeondan, or BTS, is the focus of a new student-taught UC Berkeley DeCal class, in which students will examine both the group’s art and its path to international fame.