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.
SF News Battle Between Berkeley Group and UC Berkeley Over Student Population Size Heads to State Supreme Court Depending on what happens at the California Supreme Court, 3,050 fewer students might get acceptance letters from UC Berkeley this spring, because a Berkeley citizens' group is irritated with the pace of the school's growth.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Cal Football Outbreak Maybe Not a Real Outbreak, Says Expert An SF educator was killed in a pedestrian collision in Cow Hollow, the UC Berkeley football outbreak might not be a real COVID outbreak, and an original Apple-1 computer just sold for $500K at auction.
SF News Berkeley Falcon Drama Intensifies, as Female Courts New Male While Her Mate Recovers The “soap opera” of the Berkeley peregrine falcons may be turning into a love triangle, as the female Annie is courting a new mate while the male Grinnell recovers from injury.
Arts & Entertainment Patriarch Peregrine Falcon in UC Berkeley Campanile Nest Injured In a Fight Grinnell, the male peregrine falcon in the pair who have resided atop the UC Berkeley Campanile (clock tower) for the last five years, was wounded in a skirmish with two rival falcons, and was found southeast of campus on Friday suffering from these injuries.
SF News Scientist Resigns from UC Berkeley Center Amidst 'Cancel Culture' Debate A UC Berkeley climate scientist very publicly resigned as director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center this week after the center refused to host a speech by a scientist who has criticized affirmative action.
Arts & Entertainment One of the Falcon Chicks Hatched at UC Berkeley Has Been Named After Dr. Fauci The names of the three not-quite-fledgling falcons are Fauci, Kaknu, and Wek’-Wek’, with the latter two names being falcon figures from Native American traditions.
SF News UC and Stanford Campus Systems Both Breached In Major Cyber Attack The rival schools have a new common enemy — the cybercriminals sending their students and faculty emails reading “Your personal data has been stolen and will be published."
SF News UC Berkeley Sees COVID-19 Surge, as Frat House Parties Are Becoming A Problem More than 7% of all positive UC Berkeley student body cases in the last six months came in just this past weekend, and school officials are scolding kids for letting their guards down.
SF News Long a Symbol of Anti-Development Activism, Berkeley's People's Park Becomes Development Site Drilling for soil samples is beginning this week at People's Park in Berkeley, the first step in the process of developing the site into a 16-story student housing project — the culmination of a public process that has seen the park's fiercest protectors all but give up their fight.
SF News Suspect In Seemingly Random June Killing of UC Berkeley Student Confessed, Says Friend Murder charges were filed in August against a neighborhood resident with a criminal past, and now a key witness has testified that the suspect confessed to the killing in the weeks after it happened.
Business & Tech Celebrated UC Berkeley Biochemist and CRISPR Pioneer Jennifer Doudna Wins Nobel Prize UC Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna, along with French colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry today for the pair's pioneering work in the genome-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9.
SF News Dozens of Rich White Kids Got 'Inappropriate Admissions’ to UC Berkeley, Says State Audit Another “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal hits UC Berkeley, as a new audit finds students from households with donor and staff connections inappropriately cruised through the admissions process.
Arts & Entertainment Better Falcon News: Nesting Pair Has Two Chicks on Alcatraz, Famed Berkeley Pair Has Three Fledglings Out of the Nest Hopes were dashed for the falcon nest atop the PG&E building in downtown San Francisco, but other Bay Area falcon pairs are faring better.
SF News UC Berkeley Reverts To Online-Only Classes After Frat Party Outbreak and a Local COVID-19 Spike "After weeks of developing a very elaborate plan for a hybrid model in the fall, we decided after we had a serious fraternity outbreak, that it was just too risky to teach face to face," said UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ in a letter to students on Tuesday.
SF News Berkeley Study Suggests Social-Distancing Measures Prevented 530 Million COVID-19 Infections By April A new peer-reviewed study has found that public health orders to enforce social distancing have saved an untold number of lives and likely prevented around 530 million COVID-19 transmissions across six countries.
SF News Berkeley Officials Claim No Community Spread Yet, But Virus Leaves Cal Campus Deserted UC Berkeley this week called off all in-person classes until the end of spring break on March 29, meaning that professors were lecturing in empty lecture halls in front of web chat screens Tuesday and Wednesday.
SF News UC Berkeley Law School Drops Boalt Name Following Racist Revelations The UC Berkeley School of Law has officially removed the Boalt name from Boalt Hall, the campus building that has been synonymous with the law school almost since its founding, in recognition of racist remarks made by its namesake.
