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By Ellen Huet In November, politically minded students at San Francisco State University worked doggedly to get 4,000 fellow students registered to vote before the presidential election — but felt frustrated when they couldn’t promise the new voters a polling place on campus. “Since we were doing such a large registration effort, we felt it […]
By Nanette Asimov For many university students in California, Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal that state lawmakers freeze tuition at current levels for four more years would be a dream come true. But Tuesday, the state’s independent legislative analyst urged lawmakers to reject the idea and said it could have nightmarish consequences. “While this would help […]
By Stephanie M. Lee Mothers who breathe the kind of pollution emitted by vehicles, coal power plants and factories are significantly likelier to give birth to underweight children than mothers living in less polluted areas, according to international findings published last week. The study is believed to be the largest to examine how newborns’ bodies […]
By Wyatt Buchanan SACRAMENTO — Californians are in their most optimistic mood about the direction of the state and the economy since just prior to the economic collapse six years ago, according to a statewide survey by the Public Policy Institute of California. Gov. Jerry Brown also received the highest approval rating since he took office two […]
By Nanette Asimov and Victoria Colliver Life was great for Kenya Wheeler in the spring of 2011. He’d just enrolled in a UC Berkeley master’s program in city planning and had won a research position that would pay his fees. Healthy as a horse, he biked to campus every day. A year later, a cancer diagnosis […]
By Amanda Gold With the 49ers heading to New Orleans next Sunday, my guests — not to mention viewers around the Bay Area — will be watching with a little more intensity. It’s a big job for the host. Planted firmly in front of the tube for the better part of four hours, guests will […]
Tom Stienstra Taking many paths in the high Sierra this week has led to one truth. Across the high country, a crystalline sparkle has touched anybody who has made the trip. The air tastes crisp and clean. A deep breath feels like it opens every pore in your body. The easiest, fastest and cheapest way […]
By Nanette Asimov Undergraduates at the University of California can put their protest signs away for a second year: UC’s president said Thursday that a tuition hike for 2013-14 is “really unlikely.” Even before UC President Mark Yudof could get out those words, Sherry Lansing, chairwoman of the Board of Regents interjected: “It’s off the […]
By Nanette Asimov The University of California is spending millions to market an ambitious array of online classes created to “knock people’s socks off” and attract tuition from students around the world. But since classes began a year ago, enrollment outside of UC is not what you’d call robust. One person took a class. “It’s […]
By Drew Joseph One year from now, in a lab far, far away, a group of fruit flies could unknowingly be helping to make long-term space travel safer. An experiment led by local researchers will use fruit flies to study how the lack of gravity and changes in radiation in space affect the cardiovascular system […]
By Bob Egelko A state appeals court has revived a lawsuit by retired employees of the University of California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory over UC’s decision in 2008 to switch their health insurance to a private plan that covered less and cost more. The four retirees presented evidence that the university had promised them lifetime […]
By Drew Joseph Roughly 4 million additional Californians are expected to obtain health insurance by 2014 through the federal health law, an expansion that likely will exacerbate the state’s doctor shortage and could even squeeze primary care access in the Bay Area, experts say. Even without the Affordable Care Act, a worsening doctor shortage had been […]
