Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Project scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, or Berkeley Lab, officially joined United Auto Workers, or UAW 5810, the UC academic researchers and postdoctoral scholars union, Nov. 1.

Following last fall’s academic strike, United Auto Workers, or UAW, members are receiving overpayment notices from the UC Office of the President, or UCOP.

The university selected a group of 28 UC doctoral and postdoctoral students for the fourth class of UC President’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellows last Thursday. This select group will attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany in late June.

In a huge scientific milestone, scientists at the Innovative Genomics Institute harnessed a new CRISPR technology that can be used to engineer bacteriophages, a long-time challenge due to diverse defense systems that protect their genomes. 

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory discovered a new method of refrigeration called ionocaloric cooling, which could help reduce the effects of global warming.

After six weeks of striking, academic employees represented by United Auto Workers, or UAW, 2865 and SRU-UAW voted to ratify the tentative agreements with the University of California on Friday — bringing an end to the largest academic workers strike in U.S. history. 

After months of bargaining, the United Auto Workers, or UAW, union that represents postdoctoral scholars, academic researchers, academic student employees and graduate student researchers has had enough. At 8 a.m. this morning, 48,000 academic workers across the UC system have gone on strike. As of press time, there is no end in sight.

The most efficient version of the high-performance Energy Sciences Network, or ESnet, was unveiled Tuesday at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. 

Nearly all of the 1,500 graduate students, postdocs and student researchers present at Memorial Glade raised their hands with a resounding “aye!” during the UAW members meeting Thursday, unanimously calling for a statewide strike authorization vote.

Carolyn Bertozzi and John Clauser — two former Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or Berkeley Lab, scientists— were awarded 2022 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics respectively this week.