David Blackwell Hall

Consistently crowded, with people lining up outside on Sunday afternoons, the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, known colloquially as the East Asian Library, easily ranks among the top study spots on campus.

Many UC Berkeley residence halls will be without power and student services will be closed due to the PG&E power shutdown, according to a campus-wide email sent this morning. 

UC Berkeley faculty, staff, students, alumni, retired staff and community members met Monday to discuss the ongoing housing proposal for the Oxford Tract with College of Natural Resources Dean David Ackerly, who led the meeting.

A portrait of former campus statistics professor David Blackwell was unveiled Wednesday at David Blackwell Hall. The portrait was commissioned and donated by one of Blackwell’s former students, Richard Davis.

Berkeley Way West was built to house the three departments that were displaced — the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, the psychology department and the Graduate School of Education.

You might think you’re on top of the world living in the luxurious David Blackwell Hall, but we’re here to keep you humble — it’ll all be gone in less than a year.

The newly opened David Blackwell Hall welcomed more than 700 students this fall, and although this has increased pressure on Cal Dining staff, the student experience has been overall positive, according to several residents.

The press conference's main topics, which were sent in a campuswide email, included progress on Chancellor Carol Christ's financial and housing goals.

Even though you may have only been gone for a little more than two months, a few things have changed on campus and in the town of Berkeley.