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After President Barack Obama announced his plan for a new college ranking system, UC President Janet Napolitano announced Wednesday a set of recommendations to help direct the program’s implementation. Obama’s plan, revealed in December, proposes comparisons between schools on factors such as graduation rates, student debt and post-graduate financial security. With
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After weeks of rumors and speculation, it appears that “The Interview” will have a theatrical release on Christmas Day, while an online release of the film is available now for rent or purchase. In a press release this morning, Sony Pictures Entertainment announced that it would be releasing the film
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Around 200 students and community members gathered Tuesday at Berkeley City College’s auditorium for the Assembly District 15 debate between Democratic candidates Elizabeth Echols and Tony Thurmond.
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President Barack Obama declared the rising numbers of unaccompanied children and families entering the United States at our southern border “a humanitarian crisis.” But it is also a crisis of conscience raising the issue of how we as a nation respond to refugees seeking a safe haven on our soil.
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Maria Echaveste, the policy and program development director at the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at UC Berkeley’s School of Law, has been nominated by President Barack Obama to become the next U.S. ambassador to Mexico.
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UC Berkeley added a sixth faculty member to its list of those who have held positions on President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers in the last 20 years.
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Researchers, including those at UC Berkeley, are working to find more effective methods of treating brain disorders through a $26 million project announced Tuesday as part of President Barack Obama’s initiative to uncover new treatments for brain disorders.
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For more than seven hours on Thursday, students and community members gathered in the Boalt School of Law to discuss the presence of Islamophobia in culture and society.
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About 60 students and community members rallied on Upper Sproul Plaza Tuesday afternoon in opposition to fracking in California, part of a statewide movement demanding Gov. Jerry Brown ban fracking.
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The omnibus spending bill, passed by Congress in mid-January, officially withdraws what would have been a second round of cuts mandated by last year’s sequester — the budget plan that drained billions of dollars from government programs and, in turn, $370 million from the University of California’s research pool.
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