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The Biden Administration is making 400 million N95 masks widely available for free nationwide, according to a White House statement. The administration is also leveraging the federal retail pharmacy program and the federal community health centers around the country to make these free masks, provided by the Strategic National Stockpile, accessible, the statement said. 

The White House announced Tuesday that two UC Berkeley faculty members will each receive one of the nation’s highest honors in science and technology.

President Obama will not speak at spring commencement, ending a campaign led by a UC Berkeley student organization to bring the president to campus this year.

The White House recently recognized UC Berkeley associate professor of mechanical engineering Lydia Sohn for her placement as one of five finalists last year in an international competition to develop new tools for scientists.

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.

The White House recognized an upcoming collaboration between a UC Berkeley air monitoring project and a public media platform for its goals in advancing the Climate Data Initiative, a presidential effort to amass information about climate change.

A hotter, drier future is in store for the United States. Following projections in the National Climate Assessment Report that was released by the White House Tuesday, California’s coastal territories are to face weather extremes and more intensified droughts.