Gioia von Staden

The Center for Gender, Equity, and Leadership was launched yesterday at the Haas School of Business. The center will offer courses, speaker series, consulting projects and research in order to address the lack of diversity and inclusion in the corporate world and at Haas, whose student body is currently 42 percent women.

The Campanile’s clock, which has been ticking away for over 100 years, was found to be running behind time on its east face Oct. 21.

After 40 years in the National Park Service, or NPS, Jonathan Jarvis will now take the position of executive director for UC Berkeley’s Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity.

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has rescinded 72 guidelines that outlined rights for disabled students, raising concerns within the UC Berkeley community about waning protections for students with disabilities.

Alan Dershowitz, attorney and professor at Harvard Law School, spoke at UC Berkeley’s School of Law on Wednesday, and shortly after the event, a flyer on the law school bulletin board was found vandalized with a swastika drawn over Dershowitz’s face and promptly removed thereafter.

With an estimated 20,000 people evacuated and at least 23 dead after the North Bay wildfires, surrounding counties are in need of shelter, food and counseling as they grapple with the loss of housing and lives.

UC Berkeley has received $13.4 million to build a next-generation MRI brain scanner, which will allow researchers to view minute details of the brain with more clarity than before.

Despite the cancellation of "Free Speech Week," campus administration estimated that security costs for the rest of the week will reach about $800,000.

According to the Employment Development Department, the Bay Area lost 4,700 jobs in month of August, facing its worst monthly loss in the last seven years — the East Bay, however, gained 800 jobs.

Berkeley’s Chamber of Commerce awarded the Berkeley Visionary of the Year Awards to three UC Berkeley faculty and staff members — Mike Cohen, Amy Herr and Scott Shenker — on Sept. 11.