Sandhya Ganesan

Amtrak train 529 hit an individual trespassing on the track in Berkeley around 9:15 a.m. 

BART's Redline Service was temporarily suspended due to police activity at the Downtown Berkeley station Friday. Train service was resumed after around two hours.

The Worth Ryder Art Gallery, located in the Anthropology and Arts Practice building, held an exhibit called “Black chicagoland is…” depicting Black culture and community throughout various cities in Chicago.

Walgreens located at 2190 Shattuck Ave. and Allston Way is set to close Aug. 23. 

The government of Odisha and UC Berkeley signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding, or MoU, that highlights cooperation in certain areas of research, according to Chris Bush, the executive director of the Institute for Business Innovation, or IBI, at Haas School of Business.

The Daily Californian sat down with Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of Berkeley Law since 2017, in order to gain insight into the recent Supreme Court rulings. 

After three drafts, four years, and hundreds of public comments, the California State Board of Education has passed the 2023 Mathematics Framework for California Public Schools to encourage “equity and excellence” in math learning, according to a California Department of Education press release. 

Thirty-three students from three separate facilities in the Division of Juvenile Justice, or DJJ, are enrolled to start an online Ethnic Studies curriculum, in collaboration with San Francisco State University, or SFSU, and Project Rebound.  

Amy Jamgochian, chief academic officer at Mount Tamalpais College, or MTC, which supports individuals trying to obtain their associate’s degree while incarcerated, highlighted limitations in the existing Pell experiment that restrict its reach.

The Othering and Belonging Institute, or OBI, released a racial disparities dashboard displaying the differences between Black and white life expectancy rates and the median racial wealth gap, among other topics.