Matteo M. Garbelotto-Benzon and his service dog, S’Abba, pose in the Dolomites as both prepare to carry the Olympic torch on its journey to Milan to open the 2026 Winter Games. Courtesy: GoFundMe
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A UC Berkeley forestry professor who survived a ski accident will carry the Olympic torch in his native Italian Dolomites alongside the service dog who helped him walk, and ski, again. (UC Newsroom, GoFundMe)
Enrollment in Covered California, the state’s Affordable Care Act marketplace, has dropped 24% in Alameda County after Republicans in Congress opted not to extend a policy that beefed up financial assistance for patients, a move that led to the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history. (East Bay Times)
A UC Berkeley class makes queer contributions visible on Wikipedia. (Berkeley News)
A Texas man is facing charges after police say they linked him through a familial DNA search to seven sex crime victims over 14 years, including a woman who was raped at the Berkeley Marina in 2002. (Berkeley Scanner, SF Chronicle)
The UC Regents have revised the faculty code of conduct and disciplinary policy. (Daily Cal)
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