Founded in 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence as the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, this U.S. Department of Energy facility is managed by the University of California. Among the 76 buildings nestled in ...

The first building at UC Berkeley named for an African-American woman — Ida Louise Jackson, daughter of a slave and pioneering educator in both California and her native Deep South.

Berkeley will now permit higher buildings in the neighborhood near the UC campus, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, a key move to ease the student housing crunch. The Berkeley City Council voted ...