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"First of all. Congratulations to all you graduates. It is not an easy or trouble free path that you pursued to arrive at this moment.

On a recent Saturday evening in Berkeley, eight vendors set up tables inside the Firehouse Art Collective's hangar-like event space to sell homemade food items, which ranged from chocolate chip cookies to jars of mustard and jam.

UC Berkeley on Monday plowed under a field planted by activists, the third time in just over a week the university has taken such an action.

An acoustic sensor is attached to an anchor rod securing a critical shear key on the new Bay Bridge Friday afternoon May 3, 2013.

The 2013 Maker Faire Bay Area came to the San Mateo County Event Center this past weekend.

About 16 percent of 2012 graduates from California law schools were unemployed and looking for work nine months after graduation, according to new data from the American Bar Association.

The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday hears from two men it could attempt to hold accountable for possible political discrimination carried out by the IRS: outgoing acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller and former IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman.

For months, the governor had dismissed revelations in The Bee about shoddy construction and inspection practices on the grandiose, long overdue and massively over-budget project to replace the eastern portion of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

Whether we're listening to Bach or the blues, our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make us feel, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley.

Tim Siu was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on October 3, 1926. He was one of six children born to Mr.

Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday that he does not know if the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will open over Labor Day weekend because of safety concerns.

My lunch companion seemed to be obsessed by thin dough. Showering me with questions, he wanted to know all about yufka, katmer, baklava and borek.

Date: May 20, 2013 Time: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM Location: Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054 Our Career Fair's primary goal is to bring hiring and human resource managers, recruiters, and candidates together so that all involved parties can find what they are looking for.

Just months after California voters passed Proposition 30 to stave off education cuts, a push is under way to ensure that the next stream of higher education funding flows out of the ground.

Merritt College professor Claudio Duran, right, speaks to students and faculty members during a meeting of Club Altazor on Monday, May, 6, 2013 in Oakland, Calif.

The slippery language Karl and ABC News adopted in describing the emails has drawn fire from media ethicists and veteran journalists.

A University of California, Berkeley study testing 32 common lipsticks and lip glosses found metals like lead, titanium, manganese and chromium.

Ferrahian Victorious at UCSD Model United Nations http://asbarez.com/110145/ferrahian-victorious-at-ucsd-model-united-nations/ Friday, May 17th, 2013 Ferrahian students at UCSD Model UN BY ALEXA KOVACS On the weekend of April 27 and 28, twelve high school students participated in the last Model United Nations conference of the year.

New Zealand basketball's biggest name, Sean Marks, has farewelled his mother Sheila who died suddenly on Mother's Day.

Thousands of steel tendons used to strengthen the skyway portion of the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge were exposed during construction to rainfall and salty bay mist, leading to rust and corrosion concerns.