UC Berkeley News

Protester grapple with police attempting to place a barricade around occupied Wheeler Hall Friday Nov.

Update: Police break in at UC Berkeley as talks break down. Saw off doors, prepare to make arrests.

A trove of some 6,500 letters to and from renowned California conservationist John Muir is now available on the Internet.

With the chants of protesters wafting into their meeting room and armed police standing guard, the University of California's Board of Regents approved a 32%, or $2,500, increase in undergraduate fees Thursday, but promised more financial aid to keep needy students from dropping out.

An Indianapolis man convicted of killing three children and four adults during a home invasion robbery three years ago has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

About 50 protesters have taken over Wheeler Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, according to news reports.

The entrances to U.C. Santa Cruz are back open after hundreds of students and staff members blocked the roadways leading to the campus as part of a series of protests against proposed tuition and fee hikes.

The new restrictions, approved unanimously Wednesday by the five-member California Energy Commission, will limit the sales of TVs in the state to only those that meet energy requirements, starting in 2011.

University of California's full board of regents voted Thursday to raise fees for undergraduate students by 32 percent in two steps over the coming year.

New vehicles at the Tianjin-Qingyuan Electric Vehicle Company. This year China adopted a plan to become one of the leading producers of electric vehicles within three years.

Protesters at UC Berkeley hang a sign calling into focus the cost differences between educating university students and incarcerating criminals at a rally against university tuition fee increases on Wednesday Nov.

A shortage of funds has prompted UC Berkeley to abandon its plan to construct a new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive downtown.

Employees of the University of California at Berkeley Wednesday morning kicked off three days of labor strikes and student walkouts to protest student fee increases being considered by the UC Board of Regents.

Financially hobbled University of California moved Wednesday to boost student fees by $2,500 over two years as students staged raucous demonstrations across the state against the higher costs.

President Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao agreed Tuesday that U.S. and Chinese scientists and engineers will work together to speed the widespread use of electric cars, buildings that need far less energy and coal-fired power plants that don't pump out gases that cause global warming.

Tom Campbell, Silicon Valley's onetime Golden Boy, is still, well, golden. In a San Jose State University poll released Monday, Campbell, a former Silicon Valley congressman seeking the GOP nomination for governor, crushed his competition - former eBay chief Meg Whitman and state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, a valley entrepreneur.

"We have come up hither to this house of our expectations." UC Berkeley's then President, Daniel Coit Gilman, uttered these words in the fall of 1873 when the University of California moved from Oakland to Berkeley.

With top US experts on climate change and several prominent scholars on China, such as Orville Schell, Jerome Cohen, Barbara Finamore and Andrew Nathan in attendance, I was expecting an onslaught on China.

With unemployment among blacks at more than 15 percent, the N.A.A.C.P. will join several other groups on Tuesday to call on President Obama to do more to create jobs.

Dinosaurs of the show 'Dinosaurier - Im Reich Der Giganten' perform during the Wetten dass...? show at the Messe Freiburg on October 3, 2009 in Freiburg, Germany.