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Enrollment in UC Berkeley’s summer minors has increased 18 percent from last year, with an increase from 2,020 enrolled last summer to 2,382 enrolled this summer, according to Alexandra Calvert, project manager of UC Berkeley Summer Sessions, Study Abroad & Lifelong Learning.
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UC Berkeley will begin offering courses to Dubai Electricity and Water Authority employees as part of a $40 million educational partnership beginning June 1, according to a College of Engineering press release.
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The UC Berkeley School of Public Health, or SPH, announced Dr. Michael Lu — the current senior associate dean for academic, student and faculty affairs at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University — will be the school’s new dean.
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UC Berkeley announced the creation of the Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies on May 2 in response to a $5 million grant from the Helen Diller Family Foundation.
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Eight UC Berkeley faculty were elected to the National Academy of Sciences this year, bringing the number of living campus faculty in the NAS up to 135.
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UC Berkeley discontinued its religious studies program in 2017, making it one of two campuses in the UC system to not have a major in religion. Some campus professors are looking to change that.
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Four UC Berkeley faculty members were elected to join the Royal Society of London last week, the oldest scientific academy in continued existence, which boasts names such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking in its ledgers.
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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, or CZI, announced Tuesday that it will award more than $6.9 million to fund programs at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego supporting underrepresented students in STEM fields.
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A UC Berkeley undergraduate student’s tweet criticizing electrical engineering and computer sciences, or EECS, professor Anant Sahai recently gained traction among the campus community, raising questions regarding the pressure and high expectations computer science students face.
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The Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies has been awarded a matching grant of $1 million from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, a Los Angeles based foundation that previously gave the Institute initial “seed money” in 2011.
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