Richard Russo

Catherine Koshland, a member of the UC Berkeley community since 1984, has agreed to serve as the interim executive vice chancellor and provost, while campus launches a nationwide search for a permanent replacement for Paul Alivisatos per campus policy.

Campus officials announced Friday that summer classes would be completely online in response to the COVID-19, or the novel coronavirus, pandemic. All summer 2020 classes will be offered through Zoom, bCourses and other virtual methods.

Here's what we know about the city of Berkeley and UC Berkeley's campus response to COVID-19, more colloquially known as coronavirus.

UC Berkeley will launch a new study abroad program, Global Edge, for incoming freshmen, starting with the fall 2015 freshman class.