UC Berkeley News

Former chancellor Nicholas Dirks will be paid $434,000 by UC Berkeley through the next academic year, more than 80 percent of his pay as the campus’s former top administrator — even though Dirks will not return to teaching on campus until fall 2018.

About two weeks since a baby peregrine falcon died after flying into Evans Hall, the campus has installed “bird streamers” near the balcony to deter birds from the building in the future.

11 UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism alumni — including two Berkeley Journalism lecturers — have been nominated for the 38th annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards.

UCPD responded to a report of a kidnapping, battery and robbery in People's Park on Sunday morning about 11 a.m.

Wheeler Hall — which has been closed since May 2016 to undergo a number of infrastructure renovations — will reopen for the upcoming fall semester.

The city's Disaster and Fire Safety Commission held a regular meeting Wednesday to discuss Measure GG and other items, but first heard a comprehensive status update on the fire that raged through the Berkeley Hills Wednesday.

In 2016, Caltech researchers Michael Brown and Konstantin Batygin proposed evidence for the existence of a new planet, and a search for Planet Nine ensued. In February, campus graduate students Michael Medford and Danny Goldstein introduced a novel search technique.

UCPD arrested a suspect Wednesday afternoon for an alleged incident involving arson that occurred on Grizzly Peak Boulevard at 1:07 p.m., one minute after Berkeley Police Department and Berkeley Fire Department received a report of “a column of smoke and flames” in the direction of the Berkeley Hills at 1:06 p.m.

A fire broke out at the 1600 block of Fifth Street inside a building where Cafe Fanny Granola is manufactured and packaged early Thursday morning.

Orloff Property Management Inc. has filed a third lawsuit against the City for imposing unlawful building permit fees, alleging these fees are excessive and pointed to create city revenue.