Campus

The past few weeks have seen many campus communities come together for healing and support in the wake of the latest Israel-Hamas war.

Safety concerns have escalated after two weeks of increasing student activity around the Israel-Hamas war, with heightened occurrences of antisemitism and Islamophobia during recent demonstrations on campus.

Academic workers across the UC system voted to merge UAW 2865 and UAW 5810 into one local union in a statewide referendum, the two local unions announced Saturday morning.

Countless subterranean termites swarmed the air to propagate on campus Monday due to sunny conditions following Sunday’s rainfall.

U.S. presidential candidate Marianne Williamson spoke on campus Wednesday, discussing various topics including her proposed economic bill of rights and the Israel-Hamas war.

After a summer in slumber, the Lawrence Hall of Science has fully reopened the Animal Discovery Zone, or ADZ, on Saturday. After its metamorphosis, the ADZ has returned with updated animal habitats, informational signage and bilingual programming.

Simons Foundation International gifted campus’s Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing $40 million and pledged to match an additional $25 million to fund research in theoretical computing.

The pharmaceutical company Bayer opened a new cell therapy facility in Berkeley on Tuesday.

A team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will attempt to synthesize theoretical element 120 in a new national effort spearheaded by the US Department of Energy. If successful, this project would represent the 17th element discovered at UC Berkeley.