Bill Lindsay

The Berkeley Global Campus community working group shared and voted Thursday on final drafts of their recommendations for how UC Berkeley should interact with the Richmond community.

More than 100 East Bay civil servants, community activists and residents gathered to address the lack of affordable housing options in the region at a town hall meeting in Oakland on Thursday night.

At a meeting Thursday, the Berkeley Global Campus at Richmond Bay community working group continued an ongoing conversation between campus representatives and Richmond city officials and residents, highlighting contract worker and procurement recommendations.

At a Thursday meeting, a housing and displacement subcommittee of the Berkeley Global Campus at Richmond Bay Community Working Group presented recommendations to increase affordable housing options in the surrounding area of Richmond.

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been denied a $1.5 billion contract from the U.S. Department of Energy to build the world’s most advanced X-ray microscope.

Funding for construction of the first building at the joint UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) satellite campus in Richmond has faced setbacks due to federal budget cuts known as sequestration.