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UC Berkeley received a $25 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a multiuniversity initiative aiming to develop and understand quantum computing.

The campus will now consider transfer applications from top students at a tuition-free, online institution who wish to complete their bachelor’s degrees at UC Berkeley.

Approximately 50 protesters of the occupation of Palestine participated in a die-in and march, which began in Downtown Berkeley and proceeded to campus Thursday afternoon.

The University of California Student Association passed at their Sunday meeting a resolution calling for the UC Board of Regents to divest from corporations alleged to be violating Palestinian human rights.

The ASUC Senate will be revisiting one of UC Berkeley’s most contentious issues with the introduction of a bill that calls for the divestment of all ASUC and UC funds from any companies associated with the Israeli military or settlement activity in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.