University of North Carolina

In several matches, the Tar Heels withstood early pressure from the Bears and ultimately won by wide margins en route to a team victory.

This year, UCLA took the sole No. 1 title in the ranking for the first time. UC Berkeley’s tie with UCLA in last year’s ranking was the first time in almost 20 years that UC Berkeley did not achieve the sole title of No. 1 public university in the U.S.

A study on the effects of Berkeley’s soda tax found that the tax has discouraged residents from purchasing sugar-sweetened beverages, but it hasn’t negatively impacted the local businesses that sell it.

A recent study by UC Berkeley biologists suggest that the electrostatically charged insects attract spider webs when they are close, making it easier to be snared by the web.

UC Berkeley may change its transcripts to better contextualize student’s grades in an effort to combat grade inflation at other universities across the nation. If enacted, the policy would add information such as a student’s percentile rank and average course grade to students’ transcripts.

The campus announced the appointment of Larry Conrad as Berkeley’s next Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, Friday.