Robin Simmonds

In the first day of meetings held in Sacramento on Wednesday, the UC Board of Regents reviewed a report presenting improvements to the transfer student pathway as well as other presentations regarding the Richmond Bay Campus and sexual assault across the University of California.

Cackling down from the Berkeley Hills are 13 spotted hyenas — the only captive research hyena colony in the world — but these animals will soon need to find new homes in zoos and private facilitiesacross the country after funding cuts to research.

Wildfires are burning more frequently and at stronger levels across the western United States, an escalating trend that has been linked to severe drought conditions, according to a new paper published by a UC Berkeley researcher and three University of Utah researchers.

Amid years of financial losses from the ASUC-managed Cal Lodge, the student government has now hired two consultants in hopes of increasing the profitability of the property, which has traditionally served as a retreat location for students, organizations, faculty and alumni.

The Big C at the peak of Charter Hill is once again sporting its traditional King Alfred yellow, after Chancellor Nicholas Dirks hiked to the top of the hill Friday morning to fulfill an undertaking he promised to do last fall as part of a UC fundraising campaign.

During a lecture on Monday, Sacramento Bee reporter Charles Piller talked to a classroom full of students and faculty on some of the more dangerous problems of the recently opened Bay Bridge, revealed in his 2011 investigation of the bridge’s construction.

By December, passengers on AC Transit Line 51 will see a significant improvement in service after Berkeley City Council unanimously greenlighted a new plan aiming to make the line more reliable and sustainable.

Joseph Kerman, a campus professor emeritus in music and an influential critic and musicologist, died at his home in Berkeley on March 17 after a long illness. He was 89.

UC Berkeley researchers led by campus physics professor Dmitry Budker — an expert in magnetic sensors — along with an Israeli team have taken the next step to study the magnetic fields of high-temperature superconducting materials using the highly sensitive altered diamonds.

At 10:32 a.m. Saturday morning, Berkeley Fire Department responded to a report of smoke emanating from the roof of the Cal Student Store on Bancroft Way, near Telegraph Ave.