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From Cambodia’s killing fields to commencement at UC Berkeley

Fri., 2018-05-04 12:00pm
Chansitha Ouk, who was born in Cambodia during the civil war and nearly died in a child labor camp after the Khmer Rouge came to power, will graduate Saturday, May 12, with a bachelor's degree in media studies

Berkeley grad student brings home the 2018 ‘Slammy’

Fri., 2018-05-04 10:11am
UC Berkeley's Joseph Charbonnet, a Ph.D. student in environmental engineering, won UC's 2018 Grad Slam

New UC Berkeley plans for People’s Park call for student, homeless housing

Thu., 2018-05-03 02:02pm
Plans also call for setting aside part of the 2.8-acre property for open and recreational space, as well as a physical memorial honoring the park’s history and legacy

Frequently asked questions about the plan for People’s Park

Thu., 2018-05-03 01:54pm
UC Berkeley’s plan to redevelop and revitalize People’s Park includes building a new a residential facility for students and to make land available for the construction of permanent supportive housing for members of the city’s

Frequently asked questions about supportive housing at People’s Park

Thu., 2018-05-03 01:53pm
The revitalization of People’s Park will include the construction of permanent, supportive housing for members of the city’s homeless population.  The following provides answers from the campus to key questions.  How supportive housing works  What

Side by side: Graduating twins stick together for success

Thu., 2018-05-03 09:00am
Cameron and Tyler Haberman, the only set of twins at Berkeley Haas, will both work in finance at Apple after they get their diplomas

Free Speech Commission issues its findings

Wed., 2018-05-02 05:00pm
Chancellor Christ is "delighted" to share the Free Speech Commission's report

Pioneering data science tool — Jupyter — receives top software prize

Wed., 2018-05-02 10:13am
The Association of Computing Machinery gave its 2018 software award to a project that evolved from Fernando Pérez's grad-school project

Chancellor honors students, staff and faculty committed to public service

Tue., 2018-05-01 03:33pm
Among this year’s winners of Berkeley’s prestigious Awards of Public Service are the Cal Veterans student group whose members volunteered to help people who lost their homes during the North Bay wildfires, an undergraduate student who figured

National Academy of Sciences adds five Berkeley faculty members to its ranks

Tue., 2018-05-01 12:01pm
UC Berkeley has more than 135 faculty members who are members of the National Academy of Sciences

On Worthy Wage Day, early childhood educators fight for support

Tue., 2018-05-01 10:00am
Marcy Whitebook, now the director of the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley, started the national day of action in 1992 with a group of teacher-activists

Poll: California voters sharply critical of Trump’s performance as president

Mon., 2018-04-30 05:00pm
A majority of California voters aren't happy with the job President Trump is doing overall, but a new poll shows feelings are highly partisan.

Town halls offer the chance to help write Berkeley’s next chapter

Mon., 2018-04-30 02:22pm
Berkeley faculty, staff, and students can weigh in on the work of the campus's Strategic Planning Steering Committee at two town halls this week

Students at 2016 Nice rampage now fight global terrorism

Mon., 2018-04-30 10:00am
Nonprofits offer tech tools to track terrorists, entrepreneurial boot camps for at-risk youth

A scholar’s take on Starbucks, anti-bias training and the Berkeley experiment

Mon., 2018-04-30 09:34am
Psychologist advocates for diversity at all levels and more cross-race friendships

Editing brain activity with holography

Mon., 2018-04-30 08:00am
Device projects holographic images into brain to activate dozens of neurons at once, simulating real patterns of activity that fool the brain into perceiving things that aren't there

UC defends CRISPR patent rights in Court of Appeals

Mon., 2018-04-30 05:00am
UC's lawyers argue that after the Doudna-Charpentier invention in 2012, use of CRISPR-Cas9 in plant and animal cells was obvious, and therefore the Broad Institute's patent interference should be reinstated

Hundreds of students join llama love-in as finals near

Sat., 2018-04-28 11:24am
Hundreds relax and bond with the llamas before finals

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