Geoffrey Marcy

The ASUC Senate adopted eight resolutions during its regular Wednesday night meeting, held for the first time in the new Eshleman Hall senate chambers.

After his resignation from UC Berkeley was accepted Wednesday amid sexual harassment allegations, Geoffrey Marcy, a former faculty member of the campus astronomy department, has been removed from his position as an adjunct professor at San Francisco State University.

After the resignation of Geoffrey Marcy, a famed astronomer and campus professor accused of sexually harassing students for years, UC President Janet Napolitano announced Thursday the formation of a joint committee that will specifically evaluate how the University of California approaches harassment cases between faculty and students.

On Wednesday, in light of vehement public criticism of the campus’s response to the allegations, Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Claude Steele accepted campus professor Geoff Marcy’s resignation.

Geoffrey Marcy, a famed astronomer and campus professor who was implicated in a breach of campus sexual harassment policies in June, will leave his position as a faculty member at UC Berkeley.

After a six-month-long investigation, renowned UC Berkeley professor of astronomy Geoffrey Marcy has been formally implicated in a breach of campus sexual harassment policies.

A team of UC Berkeley astronomers and a Stanford physics professor will receive $3.25 million over the next four years from NASA to search for planets capable of supporting life.

The search for extraterrestrial life may no longer require examining galaxies far, far away or the pages of science fiction novels, according to a study released Monday.

The Earth looked like a speck in the universe -- a tiny pixel in vast space -- in a photo taken from the perspective of a lens hovering 898 million miles away.