Arts & Entertainment UC Berkeley Falcons Welcome First Hatchling of 2023 Falcon mom Annie got her first hatchling to hatch on Monday afternoon, and there are three more eggs left to go!
Arts & Entertainment Falcons at UC Berkeley Have Two Eggs In Nest, Third Likely Today Just an update on the peregrine falcons atop UC Berkeley's Campanile: There are already two eggs in Annie's nest, and she's ahead of the usual schedule with the laying by a week or two.
SF News Berkeley Poised to Close Famed Anthropology Library, Angry Students In Full ‘Occupy’ Mode UC Berkeley’s 67-year-old George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library is one of only three university anthropology libraries in the U.S., but the school wants to shut it down, prompting an Occupy-style student protest.
SF News More People’s Park Drama, As Appeals Court Again Blocks UC Berkeley’s $312 Million Housing Project The rabble-rousers and CEQA appellants have won another round in their attempts to thwart an 1,100-unit housing development at the site of Berkeley’s People’s Park, as the First District Appellate Court has hit the brakes on the project again.
Arts & Entertainment Annie, Berkeley's Celebrity Falcon, Has Yet Another New Mate, as Bird Soap Opera Continues 'Tis the season when we start paying attention to birds' nests on SFist again — specifically the peregrine falcon nest atop UC Berkeley's Campanile, and maybe, someday again, the nest up on PG&E's old headquarters in downtown SF that no longer has a falcon cam.
SF News Creepy: 'Skeletonized' Remains Found In Long-Shuttered Building on UC Berkeley Campus Human remains — basically just a skeleton — were found in a building on the UC Berkeley campus earlier this week, and so far there's no explanation or identification of the remains.
SF News Appellate Court Might Expand CEQA's Powers In Berkeley Case, and May Stymie People's Park Development Plan In a "draft tentative ruling," a California appellate court is siding with NIMBY activists in Berkeley who have been squabbling with the University of California over its growth plans, and a plan to build student housing at People's Park.
SF News UC Berkeley Law School Chooses to Bolt From Prestigious US News Rankings, as Have Harvard and Yale The UC Berkeley School of Law is joining several of the nation’s top law schools by opting out of the U.S. News & World Report’s annual top law school rankings over equity and diversity concerns, but the magazine says they’ll still include these schools anyway.
Bay Area Sports Crypto Giant FTX’s Massive Implosion Likely Means Curtains for Cal’s $17.5 million Stadium Naming Rights Deal Cryptocurrency brand FTX went from $32 billion to bankrupt in just nine days, and the Cal football stadium’s $17.5 million naming rights deal is likely to go down the drain with it.
SF News UC Berkeley Prof Led Way On Delivering Spectacular New Telescope Images of Jupiter The best pictures ever of the biggest planet in the solar system have been unveiled, and it turns out an astronomer at UC Berkeley played a major role in making them happen.
SF News Activists Win This Round, Development Halted at Berkeley’s People's Park Until October Tents are already popping back up at People’s Park in Berkeley, and UC Berkeley must submit a legal filing today to prove that other sites were inadequate for a 16-story student housing project that they now can’t start building until October at the earliest.
SF News UC Berkeley Researchers Think They May Have Developed a Nasal Spray Thats Stops COVID There could be a miracle COVID-19 treatment coming out of the labs of a UC Berkeley toxicology department, as Bay Area researchers may have developed a nasal spray that prevents the spread of COVID-19.
SF News People’s Park Still Occupied, Sheriff Won’t Help Clear Park Because Berkeley Has Banned Tear Gas A very Berkeley problem in Berkeley, as protesters have occupied People's Park to halt a development project, but the Alameda County Sheriff's Department is refusing to help clear them out, because the city of Berkeley won’t let them use tear gas.
SF Politics Berkeley Law Professor Expertly Sautées Senator Josh Hawley In Terse Exchange On Trans People Senator Josh Hawley thought he had a gotcha question for Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges, but he ended up getting got, as her rhetorical savvy left him speechless and embarrassed.
Arts & Entertainment Update On the UC Berkeley Falcon Chicks: They've Fledged and Started Flying In just seven weeks' time, the two little fluffy peregrine falcon chicks in the UC Berkeley Campanile nest have become fully fledged juveniles — and over the last weekend, they both took their first flights.
Arts & Entertainment New Movie About Robert Oppenheimer and the A-Bomb Shot On Location at UC Berkeley on Friday Director Christopher Nolan (Inception, The Dark Knight) and the cast and crew of the in-production film 'Oppenheimer' were on the UC Berkeley campus Friday, filming some exterior shots with vintage cars from the early 1940s.
Arts & Entertainment Pair of UC Berkeley Peregrine Falcon Chicks Growing Up Fast Just a quick update from the falcon cam atop the UC Berkeley Campanile: Two out of three eggs hatched, and the two chicks are now 11 and 12 days old and eagerly scarfing down whatever prey mom Annie and stepdad Alden bring them.
SF News 39-Year-Old Student Identified as Suspect Who Made Shooting Threat on UC Berkeley Campus The man who allegedly made criminal threats against individuals at UC Berkeley last Thursday, leading to widespread anxiety and an hours-long, campus-wide shelter-in-place order, has been identified and charged.
SF News UC Berkeley Saw Campus-Wide Lockdown Thursday Following Threat The school confirms that unspecified threats of violence were made, and says they were targeted toward specific individuals on campus, but the suspect has not yet been named.
Arts & Entertainment UC Berkeley Paleontologist Posits New Theory For Why T. Rexes Had Those Tiny Arms Many, many children and adults have wondered aloud, upon first learning about the king of dinosaurs Tyrannosaurus Rex, why these powerful, extinct beasts had such short, stubby little arms. Well, a longtime UC Berkeley professor has a new answer.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Newsom and Legislature Give UC Enrollment Reprieve The legislature passed — and Newsom signed — a quick fix to CEQA to let UC Berkeley keep its enrollment number, lawmakers are pushing to suspend California's gas tax, and the jury has been seated in the Sunny Balwani fraud trial.
SF News UC Berkeley May Be Granted Legislative Workaround for Enrollment Cap Fight Legislators in Sacramento are working to craft a quick solution to the University of California's legal battle with a citizens' group in Berkeley, in order that they may be able to admit 2,000 more students this month. And it entails a small revision to CEQA.
SF News After Winning UC Berkeley Enrollment Cap, Neighborhood Group Now Playing Games and Offering New Terms The NIMBY group Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods won a court battle and trimmed UC Berkeley’s enrollment by 3,000. Now they’re offering a new deal to cut it by only 2,000, but the school says ‘No thanks, we’ll keep fighting you.’
SF News UC Berkeley Loses Court Fight, Will Have to Cap Enrollment at 2020 Level The University of California just lost one of its appeals to the state Supreme Court, which means it will have to withhold around 5,000 acceptance letters that it was intending to send out to incoming first-year students in the next few weeks.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Falcon Watchers In Delighted Shock as Annie the Peregrine Falcon Returns to Campanile The Berkeley falcon soap opera takes another twist! After a mysterious and totally uncharacteristic absence of over a week, Annie the peregrine falcon is back and getting ready to breed with Grinnell once again.