University of California, Berkeley

Web services speed ahead with ways to bolster customer security

2013-06-17 05:00:00

In late February, a thief or thieves cracked into Evernote's digital vault filled with log-ins, passwords and email addresses belonging to 50 million users. It was a shocking cyber attack considering the Redwood City, Calif., company offers online lockers...

New teacher training study decries California universities

2013-06-18 00:05:00

A new front is opening in the education wars as a report released Tuesday derides California's teacher training schools as among the worst in a nation full of substandard programs. The study by a controversial Washington, D.C.-based policy group singles...

Stockton woman is nominated as next UC student regent

2013-06-09 18:03:00

A UC Berkeley senior who majors in social welfare and has been active in student government and Mideast issues is expected to become the next University of California student regent, joining the board that sets policies for the 10-campus system. A...

Eating disorders plague teenage boys, too

2013-06-13 18:51:00

Bryan Piperno was just 9 years old when he began keeping his secret. The Simi Valley youngster tossed out lunches or claimed he ate elsewhere. As he grew older, he started purging after eating. Even after his vomiting landed him in the emergency room...

Cut from the top to save UC

2013-05-31 00:00:00

As the University of California regents get down to the hard work of recruiting a new president before Mark G. Yudof retires in August, they might consider an even bolder move: a dramatic downsizing of the president's office. The current University of...

Survey shows growing support for online education in California

2013-06-06 05:30:00

For Steven Ancheta, the time is long past for more arguments about online education's merits and convenience. The West Covina resident, who is enrolled in a fully online program for a bachelor's degree from Arizona State University, praised the...

Columbia University moves to modernize trust fund

2013-06-06 16:32:00

In 1920, Columbia University received a gift of more than half a million dollars from a longtime resident of Des Moines. Six days before her death, Lydia C. Chamberlain, a wealthy divorcee, had created a trust meant to finance a fellowship for...

'Internship' may help Google land employees

2013-06-01 05:00:00

SAN FRANCISCO — As soon as the credits rolled on "The Internship," Rachel Kang, a 20-year-old UC Berkeley sophomore from Torrance, headed straight back to her apartment to Google jobs at Google Inc. "I have always loved Google. I think everyone...

The Rev. Andrew M. Greeley dies at 85; outspoken Catholic priest

2013-05-31 00:00:00

A self-described "loud-mouthed Irish priest" ("And may they carve it on my gravestone!" he once quipped), the Rev. Andrew M. Greeley rejected a conventional definition of his vocation. Denied a parish, the Roman Catholic priest created his own pulpits...

Barbara Brenner dies at 61; breast cancer research activist

2013-05-27 22:58:00

As a neurological disease robbed Barbara Brenner of her voice, the fiercely outspoken activist still managed to be heard. She corralled technology, speaking through a text-to-voice application on her iPad and blogging about the concerns —...

NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope disabled

2013-05-15 22:13:00

Planet-hunting scientists were dealt a major blow Wednesday when NASA officials announced that a crucial wheel on the Kepler space telescope had ceased to function and that the craft had been placed in safe mode. Even as NASA officials raised the...

Cal State trustees appoint new Cal State L.A president, others

2013-05-22 15:09:00

William A. Covino, a veteran Florida and California administrator, was named Wednesday as the new president of Cal State L.A., becoming the first new leader of the El Sereno campus in 33 years. Covino’s selection was among a slate of...

Students Brandon King and Tabitha Mancini, standing, and David Jaulus were represented by the nonprofit legal group Disability Rights Advocates to reach a settlement with UC Berkeley.

2013-05-07 18:45:00

Terry L. Allison has been named the new chancellor of Indiana University South Bend. Allison has been provost and vice president of academic affairs at Governors State University in University Park, Ill., where he is also a professor of English, since 2010.

2013-04-29 12:11:00

Students walk through Sather Gate on the UC Berkeley campus.

2013-04-09 17:40:42