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New York Times asks what free speech means to you
Newspaper collects diverse viewpoints from Berkeley students and faculty
Student Oscars: Two nominations, one win for recent journalism school grads
Two recent grads of UC Berkeley's journalism school got nods for Student Academy Awards for stand-out documentary films.
Expert’s advice: Don’t engage with the alt-right on campus
The alt-right is laying a trap for Berkeley students during next week’s planned “Free Speech Week,” a writer with the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Alabama-based anti-hate group, told students and administrators Tuesday night. The
Discovery helps engineer more accurate Cas9s for CRISPR editing
Detailed study of how Cas9 protein domains move when they bind DNA leads to re-engineered Cas9 with fewer off-target effects
Poll: California voters worry about housing costs, consider packing up
Affordable housing has become such a serious problem that 56 percent of California voters surveyed for a new poll say they've contemplated moving.
Berkeley’s first campuswide tech club for women
Young women interested in STEM fields founded FEMTech in 2015. Now, the group offers a full plate of workshops, events, tutoring services and even a robot building team — all helping make tech fields accessible to women of all majors
Inside Rainbow Sign, a vibrant hub for black cultural arts
The legacy of the 1970s venue lives on in a digital archive created by students in an undergraduate seminar on the city of Berkeley's transformation in the late 1960s and 1970s
Memorial honors the dead with words and music
The UC Berkeley community honored and remembered its lost members Monday with bagpipes, an honor guard, the release of white doves and words of tribute by Chancellor Carol Christ. Names of faculty, emeriti, staff and
Read the amazing travails of a Berkeley professor
Mary-Claire King was an assistant professor at UC Berkeley when a series of calamities struck in a single week. She tells her story on The Moth — and reveals the human story behind her groundbreaking cancer research.
Bookmark this page to keep up with Free Speech Year at Berkeley
A new campus website brings together the latest news about events, encompasses a variety of perspectives and presents available resources. It will be updated all year.
Fall fare ranges from politics to video games, technology to tomorrow’s jobs
From lectures on making America small again to how technology affects communications, Berkeley's fall programming is a virtual feast.
Update on logistics for “Free Speech Week”
This is an update to provide information about the current status of the 12 events that the UC Berkeley student organization, “Berkeley Patriot,” has proposed to host and organize on the UC Berkeley campus between
#BenAtBerkeley: Sights, sounds and students sounding off
Read, see and hear what people were saying about Ben Shapiro's visit to campus.
Newsom retains edge in governor’s race, but many voters still unsure
For the third consecutive survey, one in three of voters polled were unable to name a preferred successor to Gov. Jerry Brown.
Shapiro event goes off with barely a hitch
Talk show host Ben Shapiro drew a crowd to Zellerbach Hall Thursday night, while protestors made their opposition heard peacefully nearby
Poll: Californians like their senators, prefer Harris stay in Congress
New IGS survey of California voters finds some ambivalence about a Feinstein re-election, Harris running for president and Pelosi as a House leader
Fall brings a brimming arts cornucopia to campus
The fall semester at UC Berkeley is packed with a broad range of arts events with something for just about everyone.
Ben Shapiro visit update: Safe navigation around campus Thursday
Walking and building closure maps have been added to the campus website detailing logistics for Thursday's event at Zellerbach
Poll: Californians weigh in on race relations, white nationalist rally rights
California voters think race relations have gotten worse but are unsure about responses to white nationalist rallies.
Fox squirrels use ‘chunking’ to organize their favorite nuts
First study to show squirrels using a sophisticated memorizing strategy to sort their bounty