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TechCrunch
March 23, 2018
We're gearing up for our big upcoming TC Sessions: Robotics event May 11 on the UC Berkeley campus, and we've got a lot to talk about. We've already announced Berkeley professors Pieter Abbeel and Robert Full, Android/Playground Global founder Andy Rubin and VCs Chrissy Meyer, Renata QuintiniÃâà...
Daily Californian
March 23, 2018
Kieffer is on a two-day campus visit for UC Berkeley's 150th Charter Day celebration, where he will be a greeter at the ceremony. His agenda includes a visit to People's Park in response to Chancellor Carol Christ's potential interest in building student housing on the park. Answers have been edited forÃâà...
University of California
March 23, 2018
... we called “What kind of Facebook user are you?” In our project approved by UC Berkeley's Institutional Review Board, we conducted a survey where we asked Facebook users questions about how third-party apps worked, the types of data apps could access from their profiles, and their privacy concerns.
Daily Californian
March 23, 2018
As we celebrate the UC Berkeley's sesquicentennial, it's inspiring to see how closely the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive's history has aligned with the university's since its earliest days. Our origins date back nearly as far as those of the university itself. The third building on campus, the BaconÃâà...
University of California
March 23, 2018
The University of California began on March 23, 1868, when California Gov. Henry Haight signed the Organic Act, ... The Morrill Act's proponents believed that democracy required an educated populace, UC Berkeley wildlife and forestry professor emeritus Reginald Barrett said. His great-great grandfather,Ãâà...
Daily Californian
March 23, 2018
There is no doubt that this institution — the University of California — has far surpassed even these lofty goals. In the years since 1868, it has grown from 40 students on a small campus in Oakland to 10 university campuses educating nearly 300,000 student — not to mention five medical centers, threeÃâà...
Daily Californian
March 23, 2018
The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, granted UC Berkeley computer science professor emeritus David Patterson and former president of Stanford University John Hennessy the ACM A.M. Turing Award for their work in the development of RISC microprocessors. Together, the pair created aÃâà...
Daily Californian
March 23, 2018
The chancellors and presidents of UC Berkeley have always dealt with passionate protesters. It is they who ultimately face the the trial of decision-making when politics risk disrupting their institution's academic purpose. Whether in reaction to Mario Savio's demands, the ban on affirmative action or the fieryÃâà...
Daily Californian
March 23, 2018
Can you believe that UC Berkeley is 150 years old It seems that just yesterday, it was the only UC and the beloved Campanile didn't even exist (we at the Clog remember that sort of stuff). The past 150 years have been filled with some incredible inventions, Nobel Peace prizes, Big Games, campusÃâà...
UC Berkeley
March 13, 2018
Before looking into what the public record had to say about LGBTQ people, “we didn't realize we were going to find so much,” Jesse Silva says in a new story posted on the UC Berkeley library website. Silva, Berkeley's librarian for government information, political science and public policy, came up withÃâà...
Truthdig
March 13, 2018
Now in his final year at the University of California, Berkeley, one of the country's elite universities, Chamu cares for his family while striving to get an education he hopes will someday allow him to have a house with bedrooms and a functioning sewage system. But Hayward has made it illegal to live inÃâà...
Daily Californian
March 13, 2018
Alfred Twu — a Berkeley designer, UC Berkeley alum and environmental advocate — is running for Berkeley City Council's District 8 seat, currently held by Councilmember Lori Droste. Twu currently serves on Berkeley's Zero Waste Commission and is the vice president of programming for the East BayÃâà...
Daily Californian
March 13, 2018
Harassment. Discrimination. Retaliation. Gaslighting. While this might sound like a promo for a spy thriller or a reality show, this is what I actually endured for three years as I tried to report my experiences working in Information Services and Technology, also known as IST or simply IT, on this campus to theÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 13, 2018
Ismael Chamu arrives at UC Berkeley after a 90-minute trip by foot and BART train. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times). Ismael Chamu looks the part of a typical college student, with his backpack, black jeans and stylish fade haircut. But he bears extraordinary burdens. In the last 18 months, he has slept onÃâà...
KGO-TV
March 13, 2018
Ismael Chamu is in a tight spot -- figuratively and literally. He's been living in a tiny trailer barely big enough for one, and he's not alone. (KGO-TV). KGO. By Katie Marzullo. Monday, March 12, 2018 11:19PM. HAYWARD, Calif. (KGO) --. Ismael Chamu is in a tight spot -- figuratively and literally. He's been living in a tiny trailerÃâà...
Daily Californian
March 13, 2018
We're not angry about the news that UC Berkeley will sometimes throw the contents of compost and recycling bins into landfill dumpsters; we're just disappointed. It's like finding out Santa Claus isn't real. When custodians and groundskeepers see compost and recycling bins that are topped with regularÃâà...
Daily Californian
March 13, 2018
UC Berkeley recently began its search for the next vice chancellor for student affairs, or VCSA. The position is part of the Division of Student Affairs, which oversees campus services related to student life — including financial aid, housing and enrollment. Stephen Sutton — the current interim vice chancellorÃâà...
Student Loan Hero (blog)
March 13, 2018
UC Berkeley was ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the No. 1 public college in the country. But while attending the university is a great opportunity, you'll need to figure out how to pay for your education. As a public school, UC Berkeley is more affordable than many private colleges. Unfortunately, it'sÃâà...
Daily Californian
March 12, 2018
ARI hosted the event in collaboration with the Berkeley College Republicans, or BCR. ARI reached out to BCR because it considered UC Berkeley a “natural place” to have an event on free speech, according to ARI spokesperson Sara Leopold, who added that the institution has an “aura of liberalism andÃâà...
Curbed
March 6, 2018
... architecture department at the University of California at Berkeley. In March of 2016, Ph.D. student Eva Hagberg Fisher accused Nezar AlSayyad, a tenured architecture professor in the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design—and her former faculty advisor—of sexual harassment and misconduct.
UC Berkeley
March 6, 2018
A new report by researchers at UC Berkeley's Center for Labor Research and Education offers options for California policymakers interested in narrowing the coverage and affordability gaps for people struggling to afford premiums and out-of-pocket costs for health insurance. The report by Ken Jacobs,Ãâà...
UC Berkeley
March 6, 2018
Hoping to inspire — or at least push — state legislators to reinvest in higher education, students from UC Berkeley and other California campuses converged on Sacramento recently and spoke before the Assembly Budget Committee. “We need to center student voices in this conversation because we areÃâà...
Daily Californian
March 6, 2018
In light of recent sexual misconduct allegations against Sigma Chi, the UC Berkeley Panhellenic Council, or PHC, announced in a statement released Feb. 26, that it will abstain from participating in an annual philanthropic event sponsored by Sigma Chi. Derby Days, a fundraiser event held by each chapterÃâà...
Daily Californian
March 6, 2018
A recent federal investigation found that UC Berkeley's handling of sexual misconduct violated Title IX — a conclusion that, of course, comes as little surprise to the countless survivors who have repeatedly spoken out against UC Berkeley. Despite several attempts to improve its policies — including majorÃâà...
Daily Californian
March 5, 2018
For Eleanor Hammond, a freshman at UC Berkeley, a wealthy yet radical woman from 1916 sparked a yearslong project. Hammond first encountered her unlikely muse in the summer of 2016 while on a trip to Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art as part of a high school program dedicated to theÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
March 3, 2018
Caron, a prominent international law expert and a UC Berkeley law professor for 26 years, died Feb. 20 in a London hospital after a brief illness. He was 66. His death came days after he had served as a judge in the Hague, on the verge of settling a complex, decades-old dispute on military sales betweenÃâà...
KQED
December 31, 1999
Before the #MeToo movement, college students were promoting a new standard of conduct on college campuses with the Yes Means Yes Campaign to end sexual violence and harassment. UC Berkeley was often at the center of the storm. There were allegations against high-profile faculty, lawsuits, firingsÃâà...
CBS San Francisco Bay Area
December 31, 1999
BERKELEY (CBS SF) — University of California at Berkeley officials said Wednesday that they have entered into a resolution agreement with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights regarding the handling of sexual misconduct cases. University officials said that for the last four years, theÃâà...
Berkeleyside
December 31, 1999
A 19-year-old UC Berkeley student was arrested early Tuesday morning after the sexual assault of another student at a residence hall near campus, authorities report. Isaac Lee was arrested at Unit 1, Deutsch Hall, at 2:41 a.m., according to online records from the University of California Police Department.
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