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Three fuzzy gray-white lumps of fur practice flapping their tiny wings in their nest within the Campanile. Although they are still being fed by their parents, these falcon chicks are quickly learning how to walk, run and eventually fly. On May 12, UC Berkeley’s three new peregrine falcons were all determined to be male during Banding Day. Each chick received one band from the national Bird Banding Laboratory with a unique nine-digit number, along with a four-digit visual identification band that allows people to more easily identify the birds from a distance. “Right now, they are mostly d...

By Jeff Ballinger

COVID study from Oxford, UC Berkeley finds higher risk to pregnant women than previously known By Jeff Ballinger article FILE - A pregnant patient receives an ultrasound during the COVID-19 pandemic in an undated file image. (Photo by Yegor AleyevTASS via Getty Images) Researchers at University of Oxford and University of California at Berkeley have found a significantly higher risk of severe complications than previously known for pregnant women with COVID-19 and for their newborns. The study released last week found that women who had COVID-19 and displayed symptoms of the virus during th...

Pamela Turntine will join Berkeleyside as editor-in-chief on April 19 . Photo: Amir Aziz The founders of Cityside, Berkeleyside’s nonprofit parent organization, are delighted to announce that Pamela Turntine, a veteran journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner with deep roots in Berkeley, will become Berkeleyside’s new editor-in-chief. A longtime editor for the Oakland Tribune, East Bay Times and The Mercury News, Turntine brings to the post decades of editing experience, a stellar knack for breaking news, a profound understanding of reporting at a local level and a high regard for Berkeleysid...

I find myself often turning back to that infamous first debate of the presidential election cycle (remember the summer of 2019?) where then-presidential candidate, now Vice President Harris invoked her experience with busing as a young student in Berkeley, hurling invectives at her then-opponent Joe Biden for his opposition to correcting the legacy of segregation. However, it is a bit naive to talk about the “legacy” of something that still persists. Nationwide, the percentage of schools that are highly segregated — those where less than 10% of the student body is White — is increasin...