UC awards $19M in grants, funds 4 UC Berkeley projects
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The UC Office of the President awarded grants to 15 research projects as part of the 2021 UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives competition. This includes four projects hosted by UC Berkeley.
The UC system awarded $19 million in grants to support research focused on improving the lives of Californians, funding four projects hosted by UC Berkeley.
As part of the 2021 UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives competition, the UC Office of the President funded 15 research projects this year. The competition supports innovative research collaborations between UC campuses, according to Jesse Rothstein, UC Berkeley professor of economics and public policy and lead principal investigator of California Policy Lab’s Data-Driven Solutions to California’s Most Complex Issues project.
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Alameda County’s district attorney and sheriff will both face challengers in the 2022 election.
Pamela Price, a civil rights attorney who ran unsuccessfully against incumbent District Attorney Nancy O’Malley in 2018, said today that she plans to run again. And 25-year veteran San Francisco Police Officer JoAnn Walker will run against incumbent Sheriff Gregory Ahern.
Price and Walker, both Black women, said in press releases today that their campaigns will mount progressive challenges to Alameda County’s two top law enforcement officials. Black women have never held the role of district attorney or sheriff in Alameda County’s 168-year history. Every sheriff has been a white man, and O’Malley, appointed in 2009 and re-elected three times, was the first woman to ever hold the office of district attorney in the county.
January 11, 2021 5:02 p.m.
After a pro-Trump mob raided and vandalized the Capitol, Democrats seeking to hold President Donald Trump and his Republican lackeys accountable have been plumbing the depths of available laws and procedure.
They’ve unearthed Section Three of the 14th Amendment, a relic of the Civil War that suddenly feels very relevant.
It essentially seeks to keep those who have engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” against the United States from holding office on both the federal and state level. Back when it was written, it was, of course, referring to the rebels of the Confederacy.
“This was adopted in wake of the Civil War when President Johnson was trying to reinstate Southern state officials by pardoning them,” Wayne McCormack, professor of constitutional law at the University of Utah, told TPM.