James Allison

UC Berkeley will auction two nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, relating to Nobel Prize-winning inventions for the funding of future research and innovation.

As the Bay Area reopens in the wake of COVID-19, BART will implement new cleaning regimens to ensure patron safety, in accordance with a 15-step plan the agency released Wednesday.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday the debut of MyShake, a smartphone app developed at UC Berkeley to warn users seconds before they feel an earthquake.

Two men were hit by an Amtrak train and killed on the Union Pacific Railroad tracks near Fourth Street and Bancroft Way on Thursday night.

The quality-of-life campaign includes initiatives to expand the elevator attendant program, maintain funding for the Pit Stop program and broaden the geographic reach of the Homeless Outreach Team program.

BART spokesperson James Allison said the current BART trains would run out of capacity by 2040, driving the need for a second transbay rail crossing. “Plan Bay Area,” a study by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, estimated that the Bay Area is expected to grow by 2 million people over the next 25 years.

Former UC Berkeley professor Paul Romer won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday for his integration of technological innovations into macroeconomic analysis.

The 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded Monday to Paul Romer, a former UC Berkeley economics professor, who shares the prize with Yale University professor William Nordhaus.

Amid the crowd at former UC Berkeley professor James Allison’s birthday party was a cancer survivor who owed her life to his newly developed treatment — the very same treatment that earned Allison a Nobel Prize in medicine Monday.