George Breslauer

All eyes turned to Eastern Europe on Wednesday night as Russian troops advanced into Ukraine, declaring war on their neighbor in what many people see as an attempt to recreate the expansive Russian empire. 

Bay Area-based Taube Philanthropies has donated $10.1 million — the largest single monetary gift to acquire art in UC Berkeley history — to the campus’s Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, providing the public with access to the artwork of Polish Jewish artist Arthur Szyk, according to a campus press release issued Monday.

In the wake of Chancellor Nicholas Dirks’ resignation, The Daily Californian looks back at controversies that have faced the campus’s last three chancellors.

With voting for the ASUC elections beginning Monday, The Daily Californian is fact-checking some of the more significant assertions made by candidates at its annual ASUC elections forum held last week.

Campus professor emeritus George Breslauer received the 2016 Clark Kerr Award for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education on Wednesday.

Earlier in December, a federal judge dismissed several local police officers from a lawsuit which claimed they used excessive force during the November 2011 Occupy Cal protests.

UC Berkeley professor Gregory Grossman, a lead scholar specializing in the study of Soviet economy, died on August 14 at age 93.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced last Wednesday the election of seven UC Berkeley staff and faculty to its society, which boasts an assortment of Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize recipients and Oscar winners among its total list of members.

The soft-spoken New York City native considers himself a “nester” of the campus. In many ways, his achievements at UC Berkeley prove him worthy of the title. He has spent his entire professional career at UC Berkeley — a total of 43 years.