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Campus sets new records for fundraising

Thu., 2016-07-14 03:30pm
More than 65,300 donors made nearly 100,000 gifts totaling $479.1 million in 2015-16, Chancellor Dirks reported.

The man behind Pokémon Go

Wed., 2016-07-13 12:01pm
John Hanke, a 1996 Berkeley-Haas graduate and CEO of Niantic Labs, is the driving force behind Pokémon Go, the hottest craze to hit the App Store — ever.

UC tops list of universities granted U.S. patents

Tue., 2016-07-12 04:40pm
The University of California ranked first in the world among universities granted U.S. utility patents in 2015, according to a report by the National Academy of Inventors and the Intellectual Property Owners Association.

Sharp eyes at the Bancroft, and a new focus on Van Gogh’s ear

Tue., 2016-07-12 02:10pm
Librarian's legwork yields important clue to an art-world mystery

Campus gathers to honor black lives lost to violence

Mon., 2016-07-11 05:00pm
Vigil highlights deaths of Philando Castile, Alton Sterling in police shootings

Changes in primate teeth linked to rise of monkeys

Mon., 2016-07-11 12:00pm
Discovery of inherited dental trait allows tracking of monkey, ape and human evolution

Stars ignite in new supercomputer simulation

Fri., 2016-07-08 08:28pm
Simulation captures star and cluster formation within dense filaments of gas

How state policies shortchange early educators — and millions of kids

Thu., 2016-07-07 11:30am
States are failing to provide the compensation, work environments and training teachers need to help children succeed, a new campus report finds.

UC Berkeley admit class includes 1,000 more Californians

Wed., 2016-07-06 11:15am
More than 14,400 high school students have been offered admission to the University of California, Berkeley's 2016-17 freshman class.

Student killed in Dhaka terror attack mourned, celebrated at campus vigil

Tue., 2016-07-05 04:33pm
Tarishi Jain remembered as “a native of India, and a citizen of the world.”

Weird pupils let octopuses see their colorful gardens

Tue., 2016-07-05 01:39pm
Scientists propose unique way in which ‘colorblind’ cephalopods can detect color

Chancellor’s message about student killed in Bangladesh

Sat., 2016-07-02 10:29am
Campus sends condolences to family and friends of Tarishi Jain.

UC Berkeley student killed in Bangladesh terrorist attack

Sat., 2016-07-02 10:13am
Tarishi Jain was on an internship at a bank in Dhaka

Physics major clinches spot on Olympic swim team

Fri., 2016-07-01 02:51pm
Josh Prenot qualified 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio after breaking the national record for the 200-meter breaststroke

Three Cal swimmers qualify for Rio Olympics

Fri., 2016-07-01 10:22am
Three Golden Bears — current physics student Josh Prenot, plus alums Nathan Adrian and Anthony Ervin — have nailed down berths on the U.S. Olympic swimming team headed to Rio in July. More Golden Bears are still in contention.

Suitcase Clinic: services for the homeless, life lessons for volunteers

Fri., 2016-07-01 10:05am
Berkeley students’ Suitcase Clinic has provided homeless people near campus with free services — from haircuts and foot washing to legal assistance and basic healthcare —for more than a quarter-century.

String theorist Stanley Mandelstam dies at 87

Thu., 2016-06-30 04:42pm
Theoretician made crucial contributions throughout virtually all aspects of quantum field theory and string theory, including supersymmetric field theories

State budgets $10 million for earthquake early warning

Wed., 2016-06-29 05:00pm
Gov. Brown's $171 billion budget includes build-out of ShakeAlert warning system

Fetal surgery stands to advance from new glues inspired by mussels

Wed., 2016-06-29 05:00pm
UC Berkeley engineer Phillip Messersmith is happy to be learning lessons from a lowly mollusk, with the expectation that the knowledge gained will enable him and fellow physicians to prevent deaths among their youngest patients

White House summit advances the ‘cancer moonshot’

Wed., 2016-06-29 03:25pm
Treatment innovations at the forefront as researchers assemble

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