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The vice chancellor of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Injustice at UC Berkeley earns $325,000 to battle "systemic oppression."

Nov. 3, 2021 -- In July 2021, the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) newly formed Industry Committee (CRA-I) launched a series of 75-minute virtual

Oct. 1, 2021 -- Kathy Yelick, executive associate dean for UC Berkeley’s Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), will be the university’s

In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the high-performance computing community. Whether

UC Berkeley professor in mechanical engineering Oliver O’Reilly will serve as campus’s interim vice provost for undergraduate education beginning July 1. O’Reilly, who is also currently the associate dean for graduate studies in the division of computing, data science and society, will take over the role from Catherine Koshland, who will serve as the interim executive vice chancellor and provost, according to a campuswide email sent Thursday. “Throughout his career, Oliver has demonstra...

In early May, the Harvard Data Science Review, or HDSR, assessed UC Berkeley’s leadership in the field of data science and UC Berkeley’s Division of Computing, Data Science and Society, or CDSS. HDSR is a multimedia platform launched in July 2019 by the Harvard Data Science Initiative, according to a Harvard University press release. HDSR features leading thinkers in the field of data science and makes data science research more accessible to the general public, the release added. HDSR’s ...

For many international students pursuing their studies at UC Berkeley across vastly different time zones, the pandemic has been a time marked by isolation, exhaustion and mental fatigue. Although some professors have adopted accommodations, there remains to be change on a campuswide scale, resulting in calls from students and organizations representing the international community for greater flexibility in instruction. Following the death of Kaijie Zhang, an international freshman who attended ...

Rachel Slaybaugh to Lead Berkeley Lab’s Cyclotron Road Nuclear engineer and former ARPA-E program director takes the helm at the Lab’s division for entrepreneurial scientists News Release By Kiran Julin • January 7, 2021 8 Shares The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has named Rachel Slaybaugh, associate professor of nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley, to lead Berkeley Lab’s Cyclotron Road Division. The announcement follows an international ...