Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation gave a $1.5 million grant to UC Berkeley astrophysicist Carl Pennypacker and Tim Ball, president of Fireball Information Technologies, LLC, funding their efforts to improve infrared fire detectors.

The UC system has invested more than $68 million into the Thirty Meter Telescope project as of April 30, according to a financial report from the UC Office of the President.

On Saturday, protesters rallied at California Memorial Stadium for the “Protect Mauna Kea Rally” against the UC system's involvement in the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope, or TMT, in Hawaii and UC Berkeley football’s Polynesian Heritage Celebration.

On Friday, a group of protesters gathered on Sproul Plaza to rally against the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope, or TMT, on Mauna Kea, a mountain that is held sacred by the Native Hawaiian people, who are also known as Kanaka Maoli.

UC researchers received a $2.179 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to study freshwater systems, a project that will allow them to monitor climate change in California.

At the annual Japan Geoscience Union Meeting on Sunday, researchers from the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory presented a new application designed to improve the detection of earthquakes by employing the sensors in smartphones.

New research from the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory may save lives and property by providing residents of coastal areas with more than 20 additional minutes to evacuate from dangerous tsunamis.

At a White House event Tuesday, Congress appropriated $8.2 million from the federal budget to improve the earthquake warning system ShakeAlert, designed at UC Berkeley.

A team of campus researchers has been awarded a $2.4 million research grant with the purpose of improving the model of a laser plasma accelerator—technology that could potentially create movies of the making and breaking of chemical bonds at an atomic level.

On Wednesday, the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory began installing the first of four underground seismometers designed to measure faint tremors occurring below the San Andreas fault.