Energy Biosciences Institute

Fossil Free Research and Data for Progress released a report Wednesday on fossil fuel funding at prominent U.S. universities. Campus has received $155.9 million from big oil and fossil fuel companies between 2010 and 2020.  

With lab spaces taking up 25% of campus buildings, mitigating the negative environmental impacts of research in labs is a necessary step to achieving some of campus's long-term sustainability goals.

UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor for Research Graham Fleming, who resigned Thursday, denied allegations of sexual harassment made by a former campus employee, criticizing the university’s investigation of the allegations.

For more than 30 years, UC Berkeley has been at the forefront of GMO research and development. Many faculty members have been divided between work to bring genetically modified products to the marketplace and attempts to challenge their dispersal in the environment.

The UC Berkeley Energy Biosciences Building, which will complete construction within the next two weeks and begin initial move-in of faculty and equipment on July 30, is scheduled to open in early September.

UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will be refunded $30 million by the state for the construction of a new solar energy research facility.

An article published by UC Berkeley researchers suggests that biofuel could account for 30 percent of the demand for liquid transportation fuel by 2037.