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1 month ago | 
dailycal.org | Lily Button |Cara Hene
Underpinning UC Berkeley’s world-renowned laboratories, research and numerous Nobel Prize winners lies a uniquely precise craft: scientific glassblowing. West Berkeley’s Adams & Chittenden Scientific Glass Coop has supported research and development, both locally and internationally for more than 30 years. The shop was founded in 1993 by Tom Adams and George Chittenden.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
dailycal.org | Lily Button
As wildfires continue to wreak havoc on Los Angeles, UC Berkeley has extended financial support for impacted students through the FASO Student Emergency Fund. The fund allows the Financial Aid and Scholarships team to quickly award funds to students facing unexpected circumstances, said Cruz Grimaldo, associate vice chancellor for the Division of Student Affairs, Financial Aid and Scholarships and Cal Student Central.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
dailycal.org | Lily Button
Jason Spingarn-Koff, UC Berkeley professor of climate journalism, was short-listed on Academy Awards for two of 15 short films up for nomination this year, putting his name in the hat for his possible fifth Academy Award. The first film up for nomination is “A Swim Lesson,” which Spingarn-Koff codirected alongside Rashida Jones. The short film captures themes of parenting and embracing life’s challenges through the story of a child learning to swim.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
dailycal.org | Lily Button
On Dec. 5, the message, “you are in danger” flashed across mobile devices, issuing a tsunami warning in Berkeley. After roughly an hour, the tsunami alert was retracted, raising the questions: What changed and why so quickly?
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
dailycal.org | Lily Button
This November, over half of the ballot measures in Berkeley were pro-tax — the most the city has seen in a single voting session in over ten years. Five tax measures – W, X, Y, Z and FF – passed, supporting new, increased or extended taxes to support unhoused services, public libraries, public parks, healthy beverage choices and street infrastructure. Two tax measures – EE and GG – failed.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
dailycal.org | Lily Button
Students, startup founders and investors gathered for the annual Innovate @ Berkeley event Tuesday. The event featured a keynote speaker, pitch competition and venture capital panel in UC Berkeley’s Chou Hall. In the opening session, attendees had the chance to speak with founders of roughly 20 startups centered on technology such as social media data analytics, weather data and modeling, cloud databases and medical transplant technology.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
dailycal.org | Lily Button
West Berkeley dive bar Missouri Lounge reopened its doors in September to a crowd of East Bay locals after a nearly five-year hiatus resulting from the pandemic and renovation delays. Walking into the Missouri Lounge, regulars and newcomers alike sit by the bar on dark red leather barstools. Retro ’80s music plays alongside retro shows on the bar TV. Behind the pool table, old black-and-white photos line the wall, featuring regulars from 1961 festooned in party hats and feather boas.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
dailycal.org | Lily Button
Two weeks out from the Nov. 5 election, Jesse Arreguín and Jovanka Beckles are head-to-head for the District 7 seat in the California Senate. Both candidates claim their progressive leadership will secure them the seat in Sacramento, but they operate on different definitions of “progressive.”Berkeley City Councilmember Sophie Hahn noted Arreguín’s past success in advancing progressive policy as Berkeley Mayor.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
dailycal.org | Lily Button
Members of the Iron Workers Union started picketing last week outside an eight-story, 207-unit apartment complex under construction at 1598 University Ave. Union members claim the project’s general contractor, Synergy Modular, is permitting unsafe construction practices and underpaying its workers. In response, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, sent Synergy Modular a list of claims it has yet to resolve.
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
dailycal.org | Stephanie Wang |Lily Button
Editor's note: ASUC Senate candidate profiles are organized by platform. The Daily Californian asked each candidate to choose a platform that was most important to their campaign for the purposes of our coverage. While each candidate is running on multiple platforms, we hope this organization helps illuminate similarities and differences among candidates with similar goals.
