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Students and faculty from the UC Berkeley College of Engineering are mobilizing to assist in the COVID-19, or the novel coronavirus, relief effort. Various members of the college are working on projects related to several aspects of the pandemic.
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In addition to the Bears competing in their final meet before moving onto the Pac-12 and then possibly the NCAA championships, they will be recognizing their athletes who will be graduating at the end of this academic year: Sofie Seilnacht, Sylvie Seilnacht, Chelsea Shu and fifth-year captain Toni-Ann Williams.
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As the bells echoed from the ancient tower, a timed procession descended the hill toward the ocean, past the garlanded ox skulls and over the meandering brook. Just another day at UC Berkeley. Well, Sather Tower might not be all that ancient, though to a 20-year-old it probably feels that
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After my gap decade or two, I’m back. Along the way, there came to be many stories to tell — stories that don’t fall neatly into the prefabricated categories of the college-to-career mill.
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Physics department chair Wick Haxton said Pines studied as an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley from 1941 to 1944.
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Erwin Chemerinsky, the new dean of Berkeley Law, has been making waves in campus politics regarding free speech issues. Chemerinsky is a major constitutional law scholar, an outspoken liberal and a free speech absolutist. He’s the perfect figure to defend the UC Berkeley’s administration from people who are angry about
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UC Berkeley and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign scientists collaborated on a study published earlier this month examining the potential of genetic manipulation in plants to combat world hunger.
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Ben Bagdikian, a respected journalist and former dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, died Friday at his home in Berkeley. He was 96.
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David Wessel, a UC Berkeley professor known for his work in music technology, passed away Monday at the age of 73.
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