Sabina Mahavni

The UC Board of Regents met Wednesday to approve the Upper Hearst Development project and provide “very badly needed space” for the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy.

The Cooperative Reuse pilot program, which aimed to eliminate illegal dumping during the student move-out process at the end of the spring 2018 semester, will be repeated this year, starting May 18.

With the year 2020 approaching, UC Berkeley has diverted only about half the solid waste from landfills necessary to reach its zero waste by 2020 goal.

UC Berkeley chancellor’s professor of economics Emi Nakamura received the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal on Wednesday — the fourth woman to do so since the award’s inception in 1947.

This spring marks the first instance in which the campus administration will grant religious accommodations for the Islamic holiday Ramadan, which this year lasts from May 5 to June 4 — in the middle of which fall final exams.

Thursday marked the five-year anniversary of the UC Berkeley Food Pantry, a resource center dedicated to helping campus students and staff who need immediate food assistance.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded 168 fellowships to scholars, artists and scientists throughout the U.S. and Canada — five of which are UC Berkeley faculty members — on Wednesday.

CalSERVE candidate Varsha Sarveshwar is running unopposed for External Affairs Vice President, or EAVP, in the upcoming 2019 ASUC elections, campaigning on a platform to make student voices heard in “spaces of power” that make policy decisions affecting the campus community.

From tutoring middle school students in Common Core math to developing a “personal connection” with elementary school students from marginalized communities, UC Berkeley mentorship programs cater to a wide variety of students in the community.

UC Santa Cruz, or UCSC, plans to shift from its university-provided child care services to the independent, private child care provider Bright Horizons — a “disheartening” and “hypocritical” reality some UCSC student parents must face.