Watch Blockeley, UC Berkeley’s online Minecraft commencement

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Watch Blockeley, UC Berkeley’s online Minecraft commencement

After the COVID-19 pandemic canceled in-person commencement festivities, a group of students built a virtual UC Berkeley called Blockeley University and held a virtual commencement on Saturday. (Twitch stream of…

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Rejection turned out great for Berkeley’s top graduating senior

Anna Boser, a statistics major, is UC Berkeley’s top graduating senior. (UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small) When it came to applying to colleges in her senior year at Berkeley…

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UC Berkeley’s Basic Needs Center helps students struggling during shelter-in-place

UC Berkeley’s Basic Needs Center provided a diverse array of food in their first on campus “food pop-up” following the move to remote instruction last week. Due to the shelter-in-place…

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UC Berkeley’s falcon family tending to four-egg clutch

Mother falcon Annie with her four eggs, the last one laid on March 18. They’ll hatch sometime around April 18. (Photo courtesy of Cal Falcons) With the arrival sometime yesterday…

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