Virgie Hoban

Researchers are reeling from the abrupt decision last year to terminate all funding for the university’s only fully owned observatory — the only one where graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from across the UC system can design and execute their own research projects.

Joseph D. Greenwell was appointed as the new UC Berkeley Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Students Wednesday evening, following Jonathan Poullard’s resignation from the post last September.

A young man was assaulted and robbed on Telegraph Avenue near the border of campus Friday afternoon.

An 18-year-old male was assaulted and robbed early Sunday morning near the intersection of Dwight Way and Etna Street.

At its conception, the federal sequester – a mandate that slashed billions of dollars to crucial federal programs – was never supposed to happen.

At a panel Friday morning, distinguished professors from UC Berkeley and Columbia University called for a reinvigoration of innovation on campus, discussing, among other things, the need to harness raw undergraduate energy to reimagine age-old problems.