University of Illinois

After breaking countless barriers in a career spanning over 50 years, former School of Public Health Dean Joyce Lashof died June 4 at the age of 96.

UC Berkeley received a $25 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a multiuniversity initiative aiming to develop and understand quantum computing.

Students and faculty from the UC Berkeley College of Engineering are mobilizing to assist in the COVID-19, or the novel coronavirus, relief effort. Various members of the college are working on projects related to several aspects of the pandemic.

In addition to the Bears competing in their final meet before moving onto the Pac-12 and then possibly the NCAA championships, they will be recognizing their athletes who will be graduating at the end of this academic year: Sofie Seilnacht, Sylvie Seilnacht, Chelsea Shu and fifth-year captain Toni-Ann Williams.

After my gap decade or two, I’m back. Along the way, there came to be many stories to tell — stories that don’t fall neatly into the prefabricated categories of the college-to-career mill.

Physics department chair Wick Haxton said Pines studied as an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley from 1941 to 1944.

UC Berkeley and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign scientists collaborated on a study published earlier this month examining the potential of genetic manipulation in plants to combat world hunger.

Ben Bagdikian, a respected journalist and former dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, died Friday at his home in Berkeley. He was 96.