More than 300 students turned out Thursday evening for a town hall meeting with Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and other senior administrators. Their common concern: the state budget emergency and the campus's response to draconian budget cuts that the crisis has brought.
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By a 91-68 margin, the Academic Senate voted to ask that Cal's Intercollegiate Athletics become financially self-sufficient. Chancellor Robert Birgeneau said he was disturbed that athletics posted a $5.8 million budget deficit in 2008-09, and would explore how to act on the faculty recommendation.
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L@TE nights at Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive aim to bring in fresh energy with outside-the-box programs organized by guest curators. The new Friday evening series begins tonight, Nov. 6.
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Anthropologist Mari Lyn Salvador, a scholar of Panama’s native Kuna people and the textiles that they create and an experienced museum professional, has been named director of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the UC Berkeley. Salvador is scheduled to take the new post in late November.
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UC Berkeley researchers have received a five-year, $10.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to evaluate interventions to combat diarrheal disease in developing countries. The goal determine how different sanitation interventions impact child health and well-being.
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Post-doc Dovi Poznanski was looking through seven-year-old data when he chanced upon a very strange supernova that flashed and was gone in less than a month, when 3-4 months is typical. The unusually rapid supernova appears to match the predicted behavior of a thermonuclear explosion on a white dwarf that has drawn helium from its companion.
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Kids who participated regularly in school-based physical education classes had better heart health and lower body mass index, according to a new study led by researchers at UC Berkeley and UCSF. Findings from the study of 9,268 seventh- and ninth-grade students at California schools in low-income communities support the importance of PE class in the fight against obesity.
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Actors from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre assembled near Wheeler Hall at noon Wednesday to perform a scene from Love's Labour's Lost, a preview of their five-day Cal Performances engagement at Zellerbach Hall.
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For more than a century, UC Berkeley's Graduate Council has hosted free public lectures by prominent scholars, scientists, and public intellectuals. Now the public can revisit a growing number of those events, thanks to an ambitious digitization project and a new and improved website.
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Composer Ken Ueno, a University of California, Berkeley, assistant professor of music, says the audience at the San Francisco premiere of his new musical composition, "Archaeologies of the Future," heard sounds they likely never heard before. With audio
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