Sophie Mattson

If a UC Berkeley student wants to attend a lecture in a hall that bears his or her name, he or she might have to fork over at least a $1 million donation to campus.

An AC Transit bus collided with and sheared off the top of a fire hydrant Wednesday afternoon near the Downtown Berkeley BART station, flooding the streets with water.

UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering and a Chinese university are leading efforts in a partnership that will allow students and faculty from both institutions to collaborate on research in several emerging fields.

The president of the California State Board of Food and Agriculture and a nationally recognized Berkeley chef are among four donors who have pledged a total of $15,000 toward the UC Global Food Initiative Student Fellowships.

Robert Connick, a UC Berkeley professor emeritus of chemistry known for his contributions to inorganic reaction kinetics and mechanisms, passed away Aug. 21 in his home in Kensington, California. He was 97.

The baby birds fluttered themselves upright as they fell onto a trampoline in a UC Berkeley laboratory — a behavior researchers say provides clues into the origin of birds' flight.

Ocular, a historical optical character recognition system, transcribes scanned documents produced on a printing press into text files. The program can read fonts it has not seen before more accurately than other systems, and was created by Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Associate Professor Dan Klein, along with graduate students Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick and Greg Durrett – members of the The Berkeley Natural Language Processing Group.

UCPD officers detained one UC Berkeley student and three men not affiliated with the campus on suspicion of vandalizing Sather Gate and other campus locations early Wednesday morning.

Committee members raised concerns about the intended design and landscaping of a proposed student housing complex on Durant Avenue at a meeting Thursday.

New changes to incoming student orientations and Welcome Week aim to emphasize more sexual assault awareness programs as well as provide greater programming for students to adjust to life at UC Berkeley.