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California officials, students rate inclusiveness on college campuses
While students acknowledge some progress has been made, they recount ongoing experiences with discrimination, social isolation and heavy-handed policing
The latest on Berkeley’s efforts to bounce back from academic disruption
Paul Alivisatos, UC Berkeley’s executive vice chancellor and provost; Oliver O’Reilly, chair of the UC Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate; Amma Sarkodee-Adoo, ASUC president, and Adam Orford, president of the Graduate Assembly, issued the
Berkeley Law hosts pro bono DACA clinic for Bay Area dreamers
Berkeley Law's pro bono program, in partnership with Centro Legal de la Raza and Morrison & Foerster, hosted a clinic that paired law students and attorneys with DACA recipients to assist with renewal application paperwork.
How one DACA student found his community — and voice — at Berkeley
When senior Ratu Orisi Lalabalavu first came to Berkeley in 2015, he wasn't proud of his undocumented identity. Now, it's a source of strength. "This is a chance for me to not only give back, but also to create space for those who come after."
Meet our new faculty: Sophia Shao, EECS
Name: Sophia Shao Discipline: EECS Degrees: B.S., Zhejiang University, 2009; S.M., Harvard University, 2014; Ph.D., Harvard University, 2016 Research interests: My research interests are in the area of computer architecture, with a special focus on specialized accelerators for
Meet our new faculty: Tesha Sengupta-Irving, education
Name: Tesha Sengupta-Irving Discipline: Education Degrees: Ph.D., Stanford University, 2009 Research interests: I study children’s mathematical learning with an eye to the social, political and cultural dimensions that shape what they learn about the discipline, themselves
Stressed to the max? Deep sleep can rewire the anxious brain
A sleepless night can trigger up to a 30% rise in emotional stress levels, new study shows
AccelerateHer plans immersive startup weekends at Haas
The weekends provide an immersive opportunity to students who don’t have time to commit to a semester’s long course in entrepreneurship or a longer startup boot camp
Recognizing Native American Heritage Month
November "is also a time to acknowledge the university’s fraught relationship with Native communities and to celebrate the work being done to heal that relationship," writes Oscar Dubón
Economists find five loopholes in the new Uber, Lyft California ballot initiative
In a UC Berkeley Labor Center blog post, economists Ken Jacobs and Michael Reich argue a new California ballot initiative guarantees only $5.64 an Hour
Berkeley Talks: Author Andrew Marantz on the hijacking of the American conversation
The New Yorker reporter talks about his new book for which he spent three years embedded with alt-right trolls
The Halloween spirit was strong at UC Boo-rkeley
Students put on their best costumes for the noon rush on Sproul Plaza
UC Berkeley among the greenest schools in the country
"This is a fantastic honor," says Berkeley's director of sustainability
Hindu kids more apt to echo propaganda that ‘Indian equals Hindu’
Despite nationalist messaging, Muslim children found to feel no less Indian because of their faith
A Day of the Dead exhibit, to remember
Joyful Día de los Muertos altar exhibit opens Thursday in Wurster Hall
Bancroft exhibit tells story of ancient Egyptian artifacts, papyrus texts
The exhibit includes a 4,000-year-old statue from the Great Pyramids of Giza, papyrus fragments from Sophocles’ lost play Inachus and an 8-foot mummified crocodile from a reptilian god’s tomb.
No campus power outages are expected for the rest of this week
PG&E has told UC Berkeley leaders that the campus is not on the list for the next power shut-off
I’m a Berkeleyan: Tiffany Yu on her fight for basic needs, using data in health
"Whether we like it or not, technology is our future, and I believe we can look at what’s already been done in certain spaces with technology and bring that to basic needs," says the third-year public health and data science student
Meet our new faculty: Barna Saha, engineering
Name: Barna Saha Discipline: Engineering Degrees: Ph.D., University of Maryland College Park, 2011 Research interests: My goal is to make algorithms run fast, possibly allowing a trade-off between quality and run-time, and to understand when a speed-up is
Meet our new faculty: Daniela Cammack, political science
Name: Daniela Cammack Discipline: Political science Degrees: B.A., Modern history and English, Oxford, 2002; M.Phil., Intellectual history and political thought, Cambridge, 2005; Ph.D., Political theory, Harvard, 2013 Research interests: I’m interested in both ancient and modern political