About 150 academic workers marched into California Hall Thursday and around 50 stayed overnight, leaving Friday morning.
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Remembering Mitchell Tobias, architect who helped redesign Cal’s Doe Library
A lifelong drummer and a talented artist Mitchell Goltz Tobias went after experiences of all kinds with gusto.
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UC reaches tentative agreements with postdocs, academic researchers
Two unions representing grad student workers and academic student employees are still in negotiations.
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Support for UC strike in Berkeley swells, bargaining moves slowly
As strike hits one week, UC workers have gained support from city leaders and labor unions.
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Thousands of UC Berkeley employees go on strike for better wages, benefits
UC Berkeley instructors, researchers and post-docs are among the 48,000 academic workers across the University of California system on the picket line.
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Remembering Lee W. Riley, who traced 1982 E. coli outbreak to McDonald’s
Riley, 73, was a groundbreaking researcher in molecular epidemiology and a champion for “decolonizing global health.”
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Remembering Richard Bender, who shaped master plans of five UC campuses
Dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design from 1976 to 1988, Bender’s real monument is the Berkeley campus itself.
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Student exhibit at Berkeley Hearst Museum aims to decolonize Philippine history
A new student-led course is examining UC Berkeley’s colonial past in the Philippines using archival photos and artifacts.
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Low-income Cal students get paid for community service with new state program
Through CollegeCorps, 98 UC Berkeley students are getting $10,000 to volunteer with a local organization this year.
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Carolyn Bertozzi wins Chemistry Nobel for work at UC Berkeley
Carolyn Bertozzi, who shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, conducted her seminal work into bioorthogonal reactions while a professor at UC Berkeley. She also served as director of a Berkeley Lab nanoscience facility.
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Remembering David Lieberman, historian, father, husband, friend, teacher, mensch
Lieberman, 69, died in a tragic hiking accident in Lassen National Park on Sept. 10.
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Mark Twain’s hair, a diary of disaster: 6 curiosities held by the UC Berkeley Library
Taking a look at just a few of the unexpected, unique, and otherwise intriguing materials in the library’s collections.