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The UC Board of Regents convened Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss funding and investments, listen to wage concerns, address mandatory compliance training and more.

Berkeley’s Los Cilantros reopened its Shattuck Avenue location last Wednesday after a three-year closure.

In 1952, Joseph Thomas Gier became the first tenured Black professor in the University of California system. Despite his historical significance, the record of his existence as a UC Berkeley professor of engineering became lost over time. 

During Tuesday’s meeting, the Berkeley City Council arrived at a standstill regarding regulations for the longstanding efforts to build accessory dwelling units.

Campus hosted an hour-long live discussion Sept. 12 with campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof and UCPD Chief of Police Yogananda Pittman, who spoke about UCPD and took questions from live attendees.

To prevent delays in building urban housing, Assembly Bill 1633, or AB 1633, would strengthen the ability of a project to progress upon completion of an Environmental Impact Review, or EIR, required by the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA. 

Following the closure of several local theaters after the pandemic, remaining businesses are working to adapt to changes in customer habits and avoid “deep programmatic cuts.” Structural challenges have caused businesses to reduce programming, introduce emergency fundraising efforts or shut down altogether.

A newly upgraded laser at the United States Department of Energy’s Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory, or SLAC, National Accelerator Laboratory produced its first X-rays with help from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The city of Berkeley is continuing to expand its emergency services precautions through a community evacuation study, in addition to a Sept. 17 test of a new Outdoor Warning System, or OWS.

Air quality conditions in Berkeley and the Bay Area became unhealthy for sensitive groups due to the smoke from fires in northern California and southwestern Oregon on Tuesday.