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Campus sets new records for fundraising
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
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
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
Librarian's legwork yields important clue to an art-world mystery
Campus gathers to honor black lives lost to violence
Vigil highlights deaths of Philando Castile, Alton Sterling in police shootings
Changes in primate teeth linked to rise of monkeys
Discovery of inherited dental trait allows tracking of monkey, ape and human evolution
Stars ignite in new supercomputer simulation
Simulation captures star and cluster formation within dense filaments of gas
How state policies shortchange early educators — and millions of kids
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
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
Tarishi Jain remembered as “a native of India, and a citizen of the world.”
Weird pupils let octopuses see their colorful gardens
Scientists propose unique way in which ‘colorblind’ cephalopods can detect color
Chancellor’s message about student killed in Bangladesh
Campus sends condolences to family and friends of Tarishi Jain.
UC Berkeley student killed in Bangladesh terrorist attack
Tarishi Jain was on an internship at a bank in Dhaka
Physics major clinches spot on Olympic swim team
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
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
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
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
Gov. Brown's $171 billion budget includes build-out of ShakeAlert warning system
Fetal surgery stands to advance from new glues inspired by mussels
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’
Treatment innovations at the forefront as researchers assemble