Sophie Mattson

Damon Lisch, a researcher in the College of Natural Resources, was granted $1.3 million out of $3.4 million to conduct research on epigenetics using corn.

Occupy the Farm protesters have cut the lock of the gate on three occasions — most recently on Sunday — since the encampment was broken up by police on May 14 in order to tend crops they had planted during their occupation of the tract.

After three years of work by students and scientists from UC Berkeley and several higher education institutions around the world, a miniature satellite is to be launched into space this month.

UC Berkeley's Solar Vehicle Team, CalSol, placed 4th out of 16 teams in the American Solar Challenge, which ran from July 6 to 14 from New York to Minnesota.

UC Berkeley is joining Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to make university courses available to anyone with Internet access.

UC Berkeley alumnus and former journalist Christopher Norton died on June 22 at his home in Sebastopol, Calif., after a battle with liver cancer. Norton was 62.

Groundbreaking scientific innovations from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory received four of this year’s R&D 100 Awards, known as the “Oscars of Innovation,” on June 20.

After an almost seven month delay, ballots were sent out Thursday to Berkeley-based radio station KPFA’s staff and members to vote on the recall of one of the station’s local board members.