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After a concerted effort to increase diversity for the UC Berkeley 2020-21 incoming class, campus admitted its most ethnically diverse class in more than 30 years and has seen an increase in first-generation students from last year.
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In an effort to help underrepresented students at UC Berkeley, Robert and Colleen Haas recently donated $24 million to two scholarship programs.
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Three UC Berkeley students are COVID-19 positive after having been tested before moving into campus residence halls from Aug. 20 to Aug. 23, according to a UC Berkeley news article.
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By studying UC applicants from 1994 through 2002, Zachary Bleemer, UC Berkeley economics doctoral candidate, found that abolishing California’s race-based admissions process negatively impacted Black, Latinx and Native American students.
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Universities and colleges switched to remote learning with the spread of the coronavirus, raising concerns regarding instructors’ ability to record meetings without the consent of students.
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As of 5:30 p.m. Friday, the campus learned of two additional confirmed COVID-19, or the coronavirus, cases involving UC Berkeley community members, according to a Berkeley News press release.
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Here’s what we know about the city of Berkeley and UC Berkeley’s campus response to COVID-19, more colloquially known as coronavirus.
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UC Berkeley researchers and their collaborators found hundreds of relatively large viruses with genome sizes thought to only be characteristic of living organisms.
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A recently published study about the archaeological site Cahokia challenges the narrative around the ancient city’s decline and abandonment.
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UC Berkeley professor of mechanical engineering Oliver O’Reilly and campus graduate mechanical engineering student Nathaniel Goldberg constructed a model showing changes in the shape of spaghetti after it is placed in water, which could help researchers create more human-like robots.
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