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UC Berkeley was deemed the number one public university for startup founders in PitchBook’s annual university rankings Monday. 

The Berkeley City Council recently named June 3 as an annual “Partition Remembrance Day”to commemorate the world’s largest refugee crisis caused by the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947.

Berkeley SkyDeck hosted its first virtual conference for investors Tuesday featuring its most recent remote cohort of 21 startups from around the world.

A startup company created by UC Berkeley students will soon be launching an app that allows students to pick up temporary work shifts at local businesses.

A group of UC Berkeley researchers are in the process of developing a device that can help people with lower-limb paralysis regain their mobility.

California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis visited the UC Berkeley campus Friday and spoke with campus students and officials as part of her statewide “listening tour” of public universities.

“There’s a wave of entrepreneurship across campuses, and I think they’ll follow in Cal’s footsteps,” Hammer said.

UC Berkeley’s startup ecosystem, which has helped launch hundreds of companies, is a network of startup incubators, accelerators, investors and classes.

A UC Berkeley English professor has invented a new computer program that aims to track and correct errors in the writing process.

City Council authorized $300,000 for the next two fiscal years to the Rent Stabilization Board and approved urgency items related to public bathrooms.