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Campus mourns tragic death of third-year Berkeley student
Campus and city police are investigating the incident
Campus gears up to offer student instruction on campus — and off
Campus leaders say they remain steadfast in their promise to provide the highest level of instruction in person and online
Winner of campus’s new Bakar Prize hopes to harness sun’s power
The $225K award goes to engineering professor Junqiao Wu to boost applicable research
Race, law, and health policy
Live webcast: Monday, June 29 12:50–2 p.m. (Pacific) Add to Calendar This event will be broadcast live on this page. You can also watch this event live on the UC Berkeley Facebook page. COVID-19 has
Berkeley librarians share books, films that shine light on race, injustice
UC Berkeley library staff provide resources to help amplify black voices
The time James Baldwin told UC Berkeley that black lives matter
Alum, lecturer and longtime friend recounts his time with Baldwin and what his 1979 Berkeley speech means today
Berkeley Talks: Journalist Nahal Toosi on national security reporting under Trump
"The good news under Trump is that there are a lot more people willing to talk. Within weeks, people were losing their minds," Politico reporter Nahal Toosi said at a campus event in March
Bakar Fellow Q&A: Developing a quick test for drug-resistant UTIs
Niren Murthy, professor of bioengineering, and his lab have developed an assay that can speed recognition and treatment of antibiotic-resistant urinary tract infections.
Chancellor Christ: Berkeley’s fall planning the ‘most complex’ process she’s known
Major questions about instruction, work, research and campus life answered in hour-long Campus Conversation
Kirk R. Smith, Nobel Prize recipient and environmental health giant, dies at 73
Smith championed the health of the poor and disenfranchised, especially rural women and children in the developing world
DACA ruling ‘a huge victory,’ but Dreamers at Berkeley see an uncertain future
The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court follows a sustained effort by the UC communities to support the legal rights and human needs of DACA recipients
Supreme Court’s DACA ruling ‘enormously important,’ Berkeley leaders say
The University of California, along with others, filed the suit in 2017
Chancellor Carol Christ on reimagining public safety
"We can make some of these changes very quickly; others will take a longer," she writes
Fall 2020 information for faculty and staff
Chancellor Carol Christ and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Paul Alivisatos sent the following message to faculty, staff, graduate student instructors, and graduate student researchers on Wednesday: We are writing to announce plans for fall semester,
Juneteenth declared day of remembrance at UC Berkeley
Eugene Whitlock, chief people and culture officer, sent the following message to the campus community on Wednesday on behalf of the Chancellor’s Cabinet: We are writing to share with you that Juneteenth (June 19, 2020) will be
UC Berkeley fall 2020: Information for graduate students
"We have created a set of options for you. You will need to decide which course of action is right for you based on your circumstances," campus leaders write
UC Berkeley announces plans for fall semester
The intention is to offer limited in-person classes for those students who wish to come to campus
As Supreme Court ruling on DACA looms, Berkeley is students’ steadfast ally
Campus's DACA recipients offered Immigration legal support, webinars, basic needs relief
UC wins North America’s largest open access publishing agreement
To start, UC's deal with Springer Nature includes open access publishing in more than 2,700 journals