Articles for Uc Berkeley

You have a right to remain fat, says San Francisco's 'weight czar' as her hefty pay packet is revealed
3 days, 22 hours ago

You have a right to remain fat, says San Francisco's 'weight czar' as her hefty pay packet is revealed

Daily Mail  

The San Francisco Department of Health's new 'weight czar' has gone viral for her proclamation that 'no one has to be healthy.' This episode was filmed about two years before she was hired as a temporary consultant a the San Francisco Department of Health Tovar said the 'disabled community' isn't generally considered to be 'healthy.' Tovar is a self-described 'anti-weight-based …

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US scientists develop 'syllabus,' for robots, allowing them to transfer skills without human intervention
3 weeks, 5 days ago

US scientists develop 'syllabus,' for robots, allowing them to transfer skills without human intervention

Firstpost  

Scientists at UC Berkeley have unveiled a game-changing tool called RoVi-Aug. This clever framework allows engineers to simplify how robots learn by allowing them to transfer skills between models without needing human guidance. t’s a step closer to making robots more independent Robots are becoming more common in real-world settings, but there’s still a major hurdle — how to get …

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California retains No. 1 ranking for international student enrollment as concerns grow over Trump
1 month ago

California retains No. 1 ranking for international student enrollment as concerns grow over Trump

LA Times  

The number of international students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities reached an all-time high last school year, with India surpassing China as the top sender and California maintaining its spot as the top destination, according to a new report. The data from the Institute of International Education said that more than 1.1 million foreign students — over half of …

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San Francisco man arrested in connection with shooting incidents at UC Berkeley
1 month, 2 weeks ago

San Francisco man arrested in connection with shooting incidents at UC Berkeley

LA Times  

Berkeley Police have arrested a 45-year-old San Francisco man in connection with a recent series of shooting incidents on the campus of UC Berkeley, officials said. The man was found with an arsenal of weaponry, including assault rifles, handguns and ammunition, according to a Berkeley Police Department media release. Shortly after midnight on Oct. 26, police officers “responded to a …

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At famously loud Berkeley, pro-Palestinian protests have grown quieter
1 month, 2 weeks ago

At famously loud Berkeley, pro-Palestinian protests have grown quieter

Politico  

“It definitely is a different political moment,” said Luca Dhagat, co-chair of the Young Democratic Socialists of America chapter at UC Berkeley, a group that has been involved in pro-Palestinian organizing at the university. Dhagat drew a comparison to racial justice protests after the summer of 2020: “When we don’t see much in terms of actual change or actual improvement, …

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Half a pound of this powder can remove as much CO₂ from the air as a tree, scientists say
2 months ago

Half a pound of this powder can remove as much CO₂ from the air as a tree, scientists say

LA Times  

A typical large tree can suck as much as 40 kilograms of carbon dioxide out of the air over the course of a year. “You have to take CO2 from the air — there’s no way around it,” said Yaghi, who is also chief scientist at Berkeley’s Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet. As a result, it captures …

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AI? New jobs? California’s local news deal with Google leaves lots of unanswered questions
3 months ago

AI? New jobs? California’s local news deal with Google leaves lots of unanswered questions

LA Times  

A woman walks by the Above the Fold newsstand on Thursday in Los Angeles. “It was very hard to pass this legislation in Google’s backyard,” said Julie Makinen, chair of the California News Publishers Assn., the bill’s lead sponsor. California Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, said: “My goal was to get resources into the hands of publications as quickly as we could, …

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UC chancellors get big raises, putting them between $785,000 and nearly $1.2 million
3 months ago

UC chancellors get big raises, putting them between $785,000 and nearly $1.2 million

LA Times  

The UC regents approved pay raises for seven chancellors at their September meeting. New chancellors at UCLA and UC Berkeley, who were hired this year at the highest pay levels among all but one of the undergraduate campus leaders, did not receive salary adjustments. “Although UC campuses consistently rank among the best in the U.S. and the world, UC chancellors …

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UC Berkeley launches one of the nation’s few Palestinian-Arab studies programs amid demand
3 months, 1 week ago

UC Berkeley launches one of the nation’s few Palestinian-Arab studies programs amid demand

LA Times  

Campanile Clock Tower on the campus of UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley will launch a new endowed program and chair in Palestinian and Arab studies, one of the few in the nation, as the Israel-Hamas war has fueled huge demand to better understand the history, culture and politics of the people of the region. “It’s an opportunity for us to deepen …

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Has a UC Berkeley chemistry lab discovered the holy grail of plastic recycling?
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Has a UC Berkeley chemistry lab discovered the holy grail of plastic recycling?

LA Times  

Despite the planet’s growing plastic pollution crisis, petroleum-based polymers have become an integral part of modern life. “So by making one product or two products in very high yield and at much lower temperatures, we are using some energy, but significantly less energy than any other process that’s breaking down polyolefins or taking the petroleum resources and turning them into …

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Students kick off fall semester with protests that adhere to UC/CSU zero-tolerance bans
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Students kick off fall semester with protests that adhere to UC/CSU zero-tolerance bans

LA Times  

With the fall semester underway, pro-Palestinian demonstrators at UC Berkeley said they will continue pressing their concerns about the war in Gaza. Students across several Bay Area universities kicked off fall semester Thursday with coordinated pro-Palestinian rallies that were impassioned in tone but adhered to the zero-tolerance regulations that the University of California and California State University systems have vowed …

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UC Berkeley’s new chancellor plans to ‘question the status quo’ as he takes over
3 months, 3 weeks ago

UC Berkeley’s new chancellor plans to ‘question the status quo’ as he takes over

LA Times  

UC Berkeley may be best known as the birthplace of the student free speech movement and for its ranking as one of the world’s top public research universities. Before 9,000 new students at their welcome ceremony Thursday at Haas Pavilion, Lyons highlighted that “grand scale” of campus innovation and entrepreneurship and “the Berkeley way” of questioning the status quo to …

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Harris races to define her image before Republicans can
4 months ago

Harris races to define her image before Republicans can

LA Times  

President Biden, right, listens as Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks about the administration’s efforts to lower costs during an event at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Md., on Thursday. Gore chose a symbolic separation, picking as his running mate Sen. Joe Lieberman, who two years earlier had become the first prominent Democrat to publicly rebuke Clinton …

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L.A. child-care industry in tailspin, hit with disruption as transition kindergarten grows
4 months, 4 weeks ago

L.A. child-care industry in tailspin, hit with disruption as transition kindergarten grows

LA Times  

Ian Harris, who has worked at From the Heart Preschool in Los Angeles for a year, serves lunch to children in February. This year, director Nina Moench said, she’s losing seven students to transitional kindergarten — the state’s rapidly expanding new grade for 4-year-old public school children. “I’m just hoping everything will swing back the other way.” More than four …

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Do tampons contain ‘alarming’ quantities of lead and arsenic?
5 months, 1 week ago

Do tampons contain ‘alarming’ quantities of lead and arsenic?

Al Jazeera  

Tampons have been around for nearly a century and more than half of all women are thought to use them – but could they be poisonous? Tampons, which are used by millions of women, may carry “alarming” amounts of toxic metals including lead, arsenic and cadmium, a study by academics in the United States has warned. Regulatory guidelines vary, but …

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Retiring UC Berkeley chancellor sounds off on protests, enrollment, housing
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Retiring UC Berkeley chancellor sounds off on protests, enrollment, housing

LA Times  

UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ poses for a portrait on campus in July 2017. “I am both relieved and thrilled that we can now take an extremely significant step to address both our student housing crisis and the needs of unhoused people in Berkeley,” Christ said. “This is a wonderful win-win for the campus and city.” Berkeley has developed seven …

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Chinese prospect Zheng joins pro ranks eyeing PGA Tour spot
6 months ago

Chinese prospect Zheng joins pro ranks eyeing PGA Tour spot

China Daily  

Chinese golfer Sampson Zheng made his PGA Tour Americas debut at Uplands Golf Club in Victoria, Canada, on Thursday, joining the sport's pro ranks. COURTESY OF SAMPSON ZHENG China's Sampson Zheng Yunhe will take a swing at the professional ranks on the PGA Tour Americas this week, with a clear mission and a dream to play his way onto the …

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Man arrested in connection with firebombing of UC Berkeley police car during campus protests
6 months ago

Man arrested in connection with firebombing of UC Berkeley police car during campus protests

LA Times  

Students and community activists camp out in front of Sproul Hall on the UC Berkeley campus to protest the war in Gaza on April 26. A man was arrested Monday in connection with the firebombing of a UC Berkeley Police Department vehicle and three other arson attacks at the height of pro-Palestinian protests on the Berkeley campus, authorities announced. Jeff …

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State Supreme Court gives UC Berkeley go-ahead to develop People’s Park, capping decades-long battle
6 months, 2 weeks ago

State Supreme Court gives UC Berkeley go-ahead to develop People’s Park, capping decades-long battle

LA Times  

Activists watch over People’s Park in early January as word spread that UC Berkeley planned to wall off the storied space as part of a broader plan to make way for student housing. The California Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that UC Berkeley can proceed with its controversial plan to build high-rise student housing on the site of storied People’s …

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From eating rocks to putting glue on your pizza and smoking while pregnant, here's what Google's new AI tool is (incorrectly) telling users to do
6 months, 3 weeks ago

From eating rocks to putting glue on your pizza and smoking while pregnant, here's what Google's new AI tool is (incorrectly) telling users to do

Daily Mail  

It looks like Google's latest attempt at making people's lives easier with artificial intelligence is backfiring. The tech giant's new tool, 'AI Overviews', gives users AI-powered summaries of search results on Chrome, Firefox and the Google app browser. In response to the search 'cheese not sticking to pizza', Google suggests adding 'non-toxic glue' to the sauce to give it more …

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Divestment from Israel roils universities. Would it work? Some are dubious
7 months ago

Divestment from Israel roils universities. Would it work? Some are dubious

LA Times  

For Ari Huffman, the case for divesting from Israel is clear-cut — at least morally. UC protesters are urging the university system to withdraw investment assets from companies “profiting from the Israeli occupation, apartheid, and genocide of the Palestinian people.” At Columbia, they are pushing to divest from any company that funds “the perpetuation of Israeli apartheid and war crimes” …

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Pro-Palestinian group takes over UC Berkeley building; university calls it ‘crime scene’
7 months ago

Pro-Palestinian group takes over UC Berkeley building; university calls it ‘crime scene’

LA Times  

Campus police and California Highway Patrol officers block pro-Palestinian demonstrators with barricades as authorities move to arrest protesters at UC Berkeley. Even after UC Berkeley officials struck a deal with student leaders of the university’s longstanding pro-Palestinian encampment, a group of protesters took over an abandoned building on campus Wednesday, and some were later arrested. There, university officials almost immediately …

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Police arrest 47 at UC Irvine after sweeping protest camp, clearing barricaded building
7 months, 1 week ago

Police arrest 47 at UC Irvine after sweeping protest camp, clearing barricaded building

LA Times  

In another dramatic campus showdown, hundreds of police officers in riot gear descended on a pro-Palestinian encampment at UC Irvine in an hours-long siege that led to dozens of arrests. University officials said a group of protesters entered campus around 2:30 p.m. and “began surrounding and ultimately barricaded” the Physical Sciences Lecture Hall, a large indoor amphitheater. A UC Berkeley …

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UC Berkeley to consider divesting from weapons makers as pro-Palestinian protesters break camp
7 months, 1 week ago

UC Berkeley to consider divesting from weapons makers as pro-Palestinian protesters break camp

LA Times  

Pro-Palestinian protesters at UC Berkeley have removed tents on a central campus plaza in an agreement that appeared to end one of the largest and longest student encampments in the country as Chancellor Carol Christ said she would initiate a discussion about the university’s investments in weapons companies and the possible divestment from them. And the chancellor said she supported …

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