UC Berkeley strips the names of professors with racist views off 3 buildings
LeConte Hall and Barrows Hall will be renamed because their former namesakes advocated white supremacy.
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Berkeley antiwar organizers separate fact from fiction in ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’
The Nexflix movie has provoked reactions both positive and negative in Berkeley where many people involved in the anti-war movement, and the trial at the heart of the film, live.
UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna wins 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Doudna, the first woman at Cal to win the Nobel, shares the prize with colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier for developing the genome editing breakthrough CRISPR-Cas9.
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UC Berkeley’s Reinhard Genzel awarded Nobel Prize in physics
Genzel, a professor emeritus of physics and astronomy, shares the prize with UCLA’s Andrea Ghez for “the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy.”
Former UC Berkeley budget director charged with possession of child porn
A former UC Berkeley budget director has been charged with possession of child pornography following his arrest in January at his Berkeley home, according to court records.
Barriers go up along Grizzly Peak to cut down fire risk in Berkeley, Oakland
Crowds often gather in the popular turnouts and some people are setting off firecrackers.
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Spring classes at UC Berkeley will begin remotely in 2021, and likely continue that way
All large lectures and most classes will be remote in spring 2021, and on-campus students will self-quarantine at the beginning of the semester.
‘I’ve never had a month like this; this is the worst I’ve seen.’ Berkeley businesses struggle with few Cal students around
Six months into the pandemic, businesses set up to serve UC Berkeley see little business. Property owners who usually rent to students have lots of vacancies.
UC Berkeley may ban walking, biking and running through campus
The ban on outside visitors is in response to a state recommendation that universities limit visitors as much as possible. It is unclear how much Cal intends to enforce the new guidelines, however.
Book review: A UC Berkeley scholar of right-wing politics dissects the Trump coalition
Donald Trump won the 2016 election by convincing America’s right-wing populists to migrate ideologically. Can he do it again?
Video: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s last talk in Berkeley
The news that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died due to complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer left the nation reeling Friday. Last October, she spoke at Berkeley Law. Watch a recording of the event here.
UC Berkeley launches center for psychedelic science and education
With $1.25M in seed funding, the new center will conduct research using psychedelics to investigate cognition, perception and emotion and their biological bases in the human brain.
