University of California lecturers reach tentative agreement; strike called off

A two-day strike by University of California lecturers and picket lines at nine UC campuses across the state was called off early Wednesday morning, just hours before employees were set to walk off the job.

Cal football coach vows team is changing COVID procedures following outbreak

UC Berkeley's football coach Justin Wilcox says the team is changing procedures in response to a major COVID-19 outbreak, that has 44 players and staff in isolation to prevent further spread of the highly contagious virus.

Cal-USC game postponed over positive COVID-19 tests

Cal announced that a few additional players tested positive this week, leaving Cal with not enough players at an unidentified position group, leading to the postponement.

UC Berkeley professor resigns over free speech battle

A leading climate physicist at University of California, Berkeley, resigned in protest after his colleagues rejected his bid to invite a speaker to campus following outrage on the speaker’s views on the sweeping violence last summer after George Floyd’s death. 

UC Berkeley students help clean eucalyptus tree debris

Eucalyptus debris can be a fire hazard. Students from UC Berkeley helped to clear the tree debris to make campus safer.

UC Berkeley mandates both flu and COVID vaccines

There's a new vaccine rule for students and faculty of UC Berkeley starting in November.

Bay Area economists win Nobel for research on wages, jobs

A University of California, Berkeley economist won the Nobel prize in economics Monday for pioneering research that transformed widely held ideas about the labor force, showing how an increase in the minimum wage doesn’t hinder hiring and immigrants do not lower pay for native-born workers. Two others, including a professor at Stanford University, shared the award for developing ways to study these types of societal issues.

Nobel prize for economics awarded to 3 in US for societal research

The 2021 Nobel prize for economics on Monday was awarded to three U.S-based economists for work on so-called “natural experiments.”

University of California set to approve controversial housing at People's Park

UC Berkeley is expected to approve $300 million for a student housing development in People's Park that critics say would destroy an important piece of history.

UC Berkeley ranked #1 college in US by Forbes

UC Berkeley for the first time was rankedas the country's top college by Forbes.

UCSF gives paralyzed man a voice after he lost his ability to speak
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It's being called a remarkable medical achievement. Doctors at UCSF have given voice to a severely paralyzed man couldn't speak on his own. It involves an implant that reads brain activity and translates those signals into words on a computer screen. KTVU's Alex Savidge spoke with Dr. Edward Chang, Chair of Neurosurgery at UCSF, who's been working on this study for several years.

Vaccine eligibility to expand in California this week
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Dr. Monica Gandhi from the UCSF School of Medicine spoke to Mornings on 2 on Sunday about where the infection and vaccination rates stand and what's on the horizon for this summer.

FDA panel meeting on Thursday to discuss Pfizer vaccine
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Dr. Julia Schaletzky from the UC Berkeley Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases explains how the Pfizer and Moderna coronavirus vaccines are at the frontier of vaccine development.

FDA panel meeting on Thursday to discuss Pfizer vaccine
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Dr. Julia Schaletzky from the UC Berkeley Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases explains how the Pfizer and Moderna coronavirus vaccines are at the frontier of vaccine development.

UCSF one of seven California hospitals to begin receiving vaccine doses within weeks
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Dr. Robert Wachter, the Chair of the UCSF Department of Medicine, spoke to Mornings on 2 on Saturday about the current state of the virus spread in the Bay Area and the cautious optimism that frontline health care workers may receive vaccinations in December.