Madeleine Pauker

A group of UC Berkeley researchers has found ways to better reduce carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide in order to make chemical products, such as fuel and plastics.

A group of UC Berkeley students are starting to work on a project to provide affordable, environmentally conscious housing in the Richmond area for students and faculty at the upcoming Berkeley Global Campus at Richmond Bay.

A proposed Downtown condominium development project is entering the final stages of its design review, which, if approved, would include a 12-story mixed residential and commercial building on Shattuck Avenue.

At a Wednesday meeting, Berkeley’s Police Review Commission adopted policy recommendations around police involvement in protests as part of its review of the December Black Lives Matter protests in the city.

Berkeley City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to adopt amendments to local and state housing codes that would require inspections of weather-exposed structures every three years, among other stipulations.

Recently, the Graduate Student Assembly and the ASUC have addressed this issue by passing resolutions targeting faculty diversity. The assembly passed a bill in April endorsing the election of graduate students to participate in the faculty hiring process.

At a preliminary examination for the December murder of Kamahl Middleton in West Berkeley, a judge decided Monday that the three defendants in the case would proceed to trial as charged despite an attempt to drop the charges against one defendant.

Three women who were sexually assaulted while students at UC Berkeley filed a lawsuit Monday alleging that the campus perpetrated gender-based discrimination and fraudulently represented its safety.

Hilary Baxter and Panayiotis Papadopoulos were recently appointed leaders of the UC systemwide and Berkeley academic senates, respectively, which represent faculty in university governance and determine academic policy.

Alameda County is working with the FBI to reduce the amount of untested rape kits with $41 million set aside by the federal government to help local police departments and crime laboratories expedite the process.