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Major fire burns Southside church — Unit 3 evacuated
As thick smoke, ashes and spray from fire hoses swirled around them, firefighters battled a four-alarm blaze that began around noon and raged through the First Congregational Church near campus at Channing Way and Dana
Public universities championed at Times Higher Education summit
Some 300 higher education experts and administrators from around the world converged at UC Berkeley for a conference on “World-Class Universities and the Public Good”
United Arab Emirates enlists Berkeley on path to happier workers, more positive country
Berkeley is sharing its expertise with government workers in the Middle East
Public education ‘dying’ in the U.S., Reich warns
The pricing out of students from poorer backgrounds is a “national tragedy in the making”, UC Berkeley economist Robert Reich said in opening a global education conference at Berkeley
Drawing new conclusions from comics and cartoons
A Doe Library exhibit and a new book show how comics offer much more than humor and can address global issues
Black Power, Black Panthers focus of North Gate photo exhibit
The Graduate School of Journalism is hosting "Power to the People," a photographic tribute to the Black Panther Party and black power movement founded in the Bay Area 50 years ago.
Construction of next-gen dark matter detector moves forward
A new dark matter detector, which will be at least 100 times more sensitive than its predecessor, has cleared another approval milestone and is on schedule to begin its deep-underground hunt for theoretical particles known as WIMPs in 2020
UC Berkeley to partner on $24 million imaging science center
The center, which aims to tackle major scientific challenges by improving imaging technology, also includes scientists from UCLA and the University of Colorado Boulder
Study links Texas earthquakes to wastewater injection
A new study co-authored by a UC Berkeley professor confirms that earthquakes in America’s oil country are being triggered by significant injections of wastewater below the surface of the Earth.
Campus reinforces zero tolerance for hazing with screening of Goat
Post-screening discussion brought controversial practice out into the open as part of Hazing Prevention Week on campus
Nobel Prize winner to join UC Berkeley faculty
Physicist Eric Betzig and biophysicist Na Ji will join the UC Berkeley faculty in the summer of 2017
Study says state bond measure should refocus discussion of school construction funding
California's Proposition 51 offers a new starting point for conversation on how to better address K-12 facilities funding issues, says UC Berkeley study.
BAMPFA’s Art Wall presents massive — but temporary — opportunities
At 60 feet wide and 25 feet high, and clearly visible by passersby on Center Street, the Art Wall at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) is eye-catching if for no other
CRISPR toolbox expanded by protein that cuts RNA in two distinct ways
New research shows that C2c2 serves both as a guide to specific target RNA molecules and then as a cleaver to destroy RNA.
Birthday Bear: Iconic Oski turns 75
Campus to celebrate its mischievous, lovable mascot and his milestone
Rebranding the right: Republicans, and the republic, post-election
Win or lose, Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign has served up a new blend of right-wing populism, strained through the alt-right fever swamps and repackaged under the Trump brand.
Watch Monday’s debate on campus: inside or al fresco?
Want to watch the presidential debate at Berkekley? Take a seat, inside or out
Berkeley rises in ‘Times Higher Education’ rankings
UC Berkeley rose to 10th place in the world — up from 13th last year — in the newly published Times Higher Education‘s World University Rankings. The University of Oxford bumped CalTech from first place to
Chan, Zuckerberg pledge $3B to end diseases ‘within our children’s lifetime’
Acclaimed biologists, chemists will serve on the science initiative's advisory boards