Jarrett Visher

The ceremony began at 10 a.m. as students filed onto the field and were received by cheering supporters, relatives and the traditional "Pomp and Circumstance" graduation march song.

Behm-Steinberg said she is using her experiences, which include working with nongovernmental organizations, to campaign on a “platform for advocacy.”

“When we look at the Industrial Revolution and the combustion engine, what we have done today has created a huge amount of carbon, reversing millions of years of evolution,” Tretikov said at the event. “Two hundred years ago, we had clean air and a good planet.”

Christopher Walters, an assistant professor of economics at UC Berkeley who conducted research on patterns of selection into Boston charter schools, said parenting and household “advantages” may contribute to high-achieving students choosing charter schools instead of district schools, more so than low-achieving students.

Berkeley’s vegan delicatessen The Butcher’s Son, renowned for house-made vegan foods, will expand its business across the street, moving into the space formerly occupied by Maker’s Common.

Representatives from politics, academia, policy research and the UC Berkeley student body gathered to discuss gun violence and gun control in America during a campus event Wednesday night.

About 15 people gathered in front of Old City Hall on Friday afternoon to protest the arrest of at least one individual by Homeland Security Investigations, which is a branch of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

Benefits of independent candidacy include an increased focus on a candidate’s particular platform, according to several current independent candidates.

The UC Berkeley Haas School of Business MBA program was recently ranked the second best in the United States and the third best worldwide for female graduates.

David Caron, a Berkeley Law professor emeritus and international law expert who was described by colleagues as brilliant and warm, died in London on Feb. 20 at 65.