Eoghan Hughes

With Wednesday’s UC Berkeley launch of new crowdfunding platform, AlumniFunder, Berkeley student entrepreneurs will have new chances to capitalize on alumni connections to fund their projects.

Rafi Lurie knows something about small beginnings. From kindergarten through twelfth grade, Lurie, the Student Action presidential candidate, attended the same small school, graduating as part of a class of of just 47 students.

When UC Berkeley Professor of Physics Alex Zettl arrives at his lab in the morning, he’s never certain that his research assistants are busy at work. ‘I come in and I’ll see them with earphones in and I’ll ask, ‘What are you doing?’ and they will say “I’m just testing the graphene earphones.” But I’m never sure,” Zettl said.

One of the problems international students face when they come to study in America is that they usually do not get a chance to check out the campus before arriving.

Two students of the UC Berkeley School of Law received The Latham & Watkins Diversity Scholarship for their efforts at promoting diversity in the field of law.

A team of UC Berkeley students won the University Mobile Challenge 2013 last Thursday for an app that will allow water providers to remotely control water supplies in the developing world.

City of Berkeley staff are some of the best paid in California, a new study on public pay has revealed.

Five Berkeley and Oakland individuals were arrested on Sunday night after allegedly attempting to break into and rob from an Allston Way apartment.