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December | ||
| 07 Dec | - | Regents certify EIR for southeast campus, approve design of student-athlete center: Unanimous approval by Committee on Grounds and Buildings paves the way for project viewed as key to the future success of Cal's athletic program |
| 07 Dec | - | A job that keeps on giving: Don McQuade leaves University Relations — having deposited an extra $2 billion in the campus till — to return to the scholarly life |
| 07 Dec | - | 'Percolating' higher-ed questions the focus of Friday symposium |
| 07 Dec | - | A brainy night in Berkeley : If it's Thursday, this must be the corpus callosum. Has anyone seen my homunculus?? |
| 07 Dec | - | Bay Area water history, one month at a time: Library calendar documents H2O's journey from 'Mountains to Mouths' |
| 07 Dec | - | The Joy of Receiving: Staff and faculty unwrap their holiday wishes |
| 07 Dec | - | Research Roundup |
| 07 Dec | - | Letter to the Editor |
| 07 Dec | - | Awards |
| 07 Dec | - | Obituary: Melvin Webber |
| 07 Dec | - | News Briefs |
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November | ||
| 29 Nov | - | Spotlight on undergraduate outcomes : Academic Senate hears update on plans to enhance goal-setting, data gathering, and reporting on student experience |
| 29 Nov | - | Keasling is 'Scientist of the Year': Discover magazine lauds Berkeley bioengineer for his pioneering work in synthetic biology |
| 29 Nov | - | A backward glance, a round of applause … and then, the final: The last teaching day of the fall approaches. Here's how some faculty plan to make the most of it |
| 29 Nov | - | Regents approve 2007-08 budget proposalIncludes five percent pool for salary increases, in line with the compact between UC and the governor, and $60 million to support restart of contributions to system's pension fund |
| 29 Nov | - | Addressing questions of stem-cell ethics : Importance of multidisciplinary approach is emphasized at recent campus conclave |
| 29 Nov | - | The weak linkage between workplace diversity, turnover: Haas researchers examine low-wage service sector to test validity of received wisdom among diversity consultants |
| 29 Nov | - | International House director Joe Lurie to step down next June: Long-serving overseer of campus's most diverse residence is a man of many constituencies |
| 29 Nov | - | Time to 'rekindle' California's enthusiasm for K-12 reform?: Concentrating resources on reducing class sizes has not been a panacea for all achievement-related challenges, new Berkeley-Stanford report says |
| 29 Nov | - | Obituary: Blake Spahr |
| 29 Nov | - | News Briefs |
| 27 Nov | - | Polymer envelope makes anticancer drug more effective: Researchers at Berkeley, UCSF believe the treatment is also potentially less toxic than commonly used liposomal drugs |
| 27 Nov | - | Campus signs on to state climate registry: Berkeley will reduce its carbon footprint, inventory greenhouse-gas emissions |
| 27 Nov | - | An astronomer with a stellar teaching style: Alex Filippenko named national Professor of the Year by CASE and The Carnegie Foundation |
| 27 Nov | - | Their hearts were young and green: Four undergrads are wholeheartedly committed to making an eco-friendly mess of their apartment |
| 27 Nov | - | Obituary: Leon Henkin |
| 27 Nov | - | News Briefs |
| 16 Nov | - | Celebrating Thanksgiving, Berkeley-style: Many on campus are learning about where their food comes from — and getting up close and personal with it |
| 16 Nov | - | Boalt Hall prof explores changing demographics of police: 'Bottom up' workplace innovations, says David Sklansky, might spur democratic reforms |
| 16 Nov | - | Bring us the head of Tommy Trojan: As Cal prepares to do high-stakes battle with USC, we're smelling like Roses and taking no prisoners |
| 08 Nov | - | Final EIR on southeast campus projects released: New facilities will enhance athletics and academics alike — though not without some impact on the area's environment and historic character. Regents will consider the plan at their meeting next week |
| 08 Nov | - | Employees find tending to aging loved ones no easy task : The campus Elder Care program provides caregivers with expertise, guidance, resources, and support |
| 08 Nov | - | Exemplars of excellence: The Chancellor's Outstanding Staff Award honors those who serve the campus so well |
| 08 Nov | - | Grad students to enjoy one-stop resource shopping : Graduate Division unveils new administrative-services unit and revamped web presence |
| 08 Nov | - | John Muir, Tin Lizzie, and California Jack: In Past Tents, the Bancroft's Susan Snyder explores the great outdoors in the days before Therm-a-Rest, and finds a world both strange and strangely familiar |
| 08 Nov | - | Awards |
| 08 Nov | - | Obituary: William Berg |
| 08 Nov | - | News Briefs |
| 01 Nov | - | Everyone into the pool?: As California's racial and ethnic diversity grows, UC's has suffered. Now, a decade after Proposition 209, some want to open up the admissions pipeline |
| 01 Nov | - | Tackling technological truancy: Faculty start to wonder why so many students aren't coming to class |
| 01 Nov | - | Scott Biddy named University Relations vice chancellor: As second-in-command to outgoing VC McQuade, he oversaw last year's record-breaking fundraising totals |
| 01 Nov | - | Open enrollment for 2007 benefits now underway |
| 01 Nov | - | Open to debate: the fuel-saving benefits of ethanolIs it a useful alternative while other technologies ramp up? Or do its costs already exceed its potential payoff? |
| 01 Nov | - | New study, co-authored by Berkeley researcher, says pollinators help one-third of the world's food production: Their biodiversity is threatened worldwide, however. In the U.S., wild and domesticated bee species alike are endangered by habitat loss and poor agricultural stewardship |
| 01 Nov | - | A 'poet always on duty': Haas staffer's war-related poems see ink in book of veterans' writing |
| 01 Nov | - | Florence Fang gift helps the East Asian Library take shape |
| 01 Nov | - | I-House offers free copies of post-9/11 anthology |
| 01 Nov | - | Awards |
| 01 Nov | - | Obituary: Lawrence Levine |
| 01 Nov | - | News Briefs |
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October | ||
| 26 Oct | - | Many eyes on the pension prize: There's no shortage of opposition to the pending restart of contributions to UC's pension fund. Critics worry about fund's management—and the bigger benefits picture |
| 26 Oct | - | Of God, justice, and disunited states: After 50 years of studying religion, Robert Bellah remains hard at work in retirement, battling gloom, preaching hope, and struggling to 'hold together the great polarities of the modern world' |
| 26 Oct | - | Making a difference, without going broke: Boalt Hall offers new loan-forgiveness program for law-school graduates going into government and public-interest work |
| 26 Oct | - | Jason Moran's adventurous imprint: The pianist, who counts Egon Schiele and Alban Berg among his influences, is coming to campus to deliver 'a hard dosage of music' |
| 26 Oct | - | A stem-cell advance, sans controversy: Stretching bone-marrow stem cells may help them become blood-vessel tissue; cells are believed to 'know' their developmental destiny by the direction in which they're stretched |
| 26 Oct | - | A 'dark film' for 'dark times': Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan discuss a nation of fast food, cheap labor, and profit-driven compromises |
| 26 Oct | - | News Briefs |
| 18 Oct | - | Loose-leaf legacy : Wallace Berman's Elvis-era journal disseminated bohemian art and poetry |
| 18 Oct | - | Birgeneau: 'We serve California extraordinarily well': In a wide-ranging interview, the chancellor revisits inaugural themes, citing progress made in all three areas.Emphasis is put on fulfilling Berkeley's public mission while maintaining preeminence in teaching, research |
| 18 Oct | - | The holiday's over: Regents' plan to reinstate contributions to pension plan is a watershed event for UCRP and its members |
| 18 Oct | - | Creating a 'testing ground' for social-service leaders: Innovative UC Berkeley Extension program gives agency staff a chance to see the big picture |
| 18 Oct | - | Would Proposition 1D fund 'essentials' or 'fluff'? $10 billion bond issue on November ballot includes money for improvements to three Berkeley buildings |
| 18 Oct | - | Obituary: Nichoas Howe |
| 18 Oct | - | News Briefs |
| 11 Oct | - | How to get a handle on BPA: . . . with a little help from your friends. Members of new staff organization share techniques, tips, and best practices about business process analysis |
| 11 Oct | - | Save the tropics, save ourselves: Settling an old dispute, study shows that the vast region that is the source of most of Earth's new species is both the cradle and a museum of biodiversity |
| 11 Oct | - | Showcasing California design: Monograph series draws on campus archives' vast holdings |
| 11 Oct | - | All the campus a stage?: Theater workshops later this month will help to advance the ongoing conversation about diversity and inclusion at work |
| 11 Oct | - | Elaine Kim to talk writing at Doe: Author and editor, a pioneer in Asian American literature and women's studies, will be featured in Berkeley Writers at Work series |
| 11 Oct | - | Awards |
| 11 Oct | - | Letter to the Editor |
| 11 Oct | - | News Briefs |
| 04 Oct | - | Smoot extends Berkeley's Nobel tradition: Physicist shares this year's prize for his work confirming aspects of the Big Bang |
| 04 Oct | - | China scholarship, writ large: From investments to oracle bones, the Berkeley China Initiative aims to span disciplines, cultures, and perspectives |
| 04 Oct | - | Teaching tribal teens the write stuff: Luisa Armijo created a writing-immersion program to help Native youth feel at home on the page — and fuel their dreams of college life |
| 04 Oct | - | A tradition firmly made: recalling those we've lost |
| 04 Oct | - | Scharffenberger will lead Blum Center : A veteran of international-development efforts, he learned what poverty is — and what it isn't — during a Peace Corps stint in Senegal |
| 04 Oct | - | Renowned cosmologist James Peebles to deliver Hitchcock Lectures |
| 04 Oct | - | His health is poor, but his commitment is strong: If a stamp honoring those with IBD is approved, much of the credit will go to Gideon Sofer |
| 04 Oct | - | How do faculty decide where to publish?: A new study finds that their perceptions of "relative quality"are key to making that choice, especially where new academic media — and their inconsistent approaches to peer review — are involved |
| 04 Oct | - | Awards |
| 04 Oct | - | Letters to the Editor |
| 04 Oct | - | News Briefs |
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September | ||
| 28 Sep | - | Berkeley's Heald chosen for $2.5 million Pioneer Award: Intended by NIH to fund innovative research, award goes to MCB prof investigating aspects of cellular growth |
| 28 Sep | - | Doing the right thing continues to pay dividendsFamily-friendly policies at Berkeley and Davis are honored by Sloan Foundation with $250,000 award |
| 28 Sep | - | Aviation engineer wins MacArthur 'genius' award |
| 28 Sep | - | Ito named architect for new BAM/PFA building: At the gateway to the campus, it is viewed as a likely linchpin of the city's economic redevelopment |
| 28 Sep | - | Bring the arts into the classroom (or students to the arts): Consortium for the Arts' online resource makes either option not only possible, but do-able |
| 28 Sep | - | A little caring makes a big difference: 'Pay it forward' program hooks up independent students with the support they need to beat the odds |
| 28 Sep | - | Focusing on high-risk teens and their communities : New ISSC center probes causes and prevention of youth violence. Visiting-speakers program launches next week |
| 28 Sep | - | Pixels and pedagogy: Just don't call it 'U Tube': New Google Video site expands public access to Berkeley courses and events |
| 28 Sep | - | Haas ranked No. 5 by Wall Street Journal: It's the first Top 10 ranking for an MBA program at any UC business school |
| 28 Sep | - | Study highlights UC as tech-transfer powerhouse: With three campuses among the world's 10 strongest in biotech licensing, system shines in key metrics |
| 28 Sep | - | Friday at noon: A pause to honor the past year's losses |
| 28 Sep | - | Letter to the Editor |
| 28 Sep | - | News Briefs |
| 27 Sep | - | Regents, President Dynes let the sunshine in: New and revised compensation guidelines were announced last week — along with plans for the public posting of salary data for all UC employees |
| 21 Sep | - | Materiel girl, materiel world: Theater department's longtime props manager builds, borrows, purchases, and repurposes to outfit each season's sets in style |
| 20 Sep | - | Fire center provides homeowners with wildfire-risk-assessment tool: Municipal decision-makers and fire researchers will also find useful resources on center's new website |
| 20 Sep | - | Schlock today, dissertation tomorrow: Beyond Shakespeare and PBS: The Media Resources Center has built a video collection designed for a new generation of scholars |
| 20 Sep | - | For fans of adventurous radio, KALX delivers the unexpected : From hip hop and electronica to Indian ragas, the mighty 90.7 serves up a rich musical mélange |
| 20 Sep | - | Gap between productivity and compensation increases: The annual jobs report from the Center for Labor Research and Education offers little for workers to celebrate |
| 20 Sep | - | Powerful people take more risks: Five studies find a link between power and dangerous behavior |
| 20 Sep | - | UC Regents go 'beyond the letter of the law' in revising meeting rules: Beginning with this week's meeting, compensation for certain senior officials will be discussed in open session |
| 20 Sep | - | What to do about the flu: Chancellor, University Health Services take steps to respond to potential pandemic |
| 20 Sep | - | Obituary: George Kaplan |
| 20 Sep | - | Obituary: Frederic Wakeman Jr. |
| 20 Sep | - | News Briefs |
| 14 Sep | - | Off the clock, but not at rest |
| 13 Sep | - | Learning to love the bomb: Also the running game, the pass rush, the play-action fake, Jeff Tedford, and everything else that makes the Bears golden |
| 13 Sep | - | The eye may be a camera . . .: … but a lot happens during image processing. The same "best guess" neurology that enables us to identify a figure's gender and emotional state makes us subject to optical illusions |
| 13 Sep | - | Hey! What are the big ideas?: More than two dozen student proposals are rewarded with funding — to support further development, or just help the winners pay for school |
| 13 Sep | - | Helen Seaborg, 1917-2006 |
| 13 Sep | - | Voted most likely not to let age get in their way: Snapshot introductions to three of this fall's five 16-year-old freshmen |
| 13 Sep | - | Publication: The Robert Bellah Reader |
| 13 Sep | - | News Briefs |
| 06 Sep | - | Strong enrollment demand for Blum Center's inaugural course offering: Ananya Roy's eight-week class on global poverty draws hundreds of students, moves to second new location in PFA Theater |
| 06 Sep | - | Constitution Day, at Berkeley, coincides with anniversary of terrorist attacks: This year's commemoration to focus on post-9/11 civil-liberties concerns |
| 06 Sep | - | Coming attractions for fall 2006: Terrorism, Katrina, the '60s ... and lots of lighter fare |
| 06 Sep | - | An uphill boost for disabled students : Comprehensive campus access guide, golf-cart transit service are among improvements announced |
| 06 Sep | - | Obituary: Lily Misono Culver |
| 06 Sep | - | News Briefs |
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August | ||
| 30 Aug | - | It's a relative thing . . .: For some, the start of college is fraught with angst, fear, and other emotional baggage. Someday, maybe students will understand |
| 30 Aug | - | Tapping into a hidden workforce: Retirement Center website helps managers hire temporary staff who already know their way around the campus |
| 30 Aug | - | NSF funds new synthetic-biology center at Berkeley: Potential to revolutionize the biotech industry and, ultimately, solve the world's most intractable problems |
| 30 Aug | - | Gulf Coast projects for the long haul |
| 30 Aug | - | Preserving Crescent City culture: Berkeley-led research team gives 'voice' to displaced Katrina survivors through oral narratives, poetry, and prose |
| 30 Aug | - | The celluloid detective: The Pacific Film Archive's new senior curator tracks down the best prints, keeping local cineastes coming back for more |
| 30 Aug | - | Two bees, or not two bees?: Wild bees make honeybees 'skittish,' new study finds, boosting both pollination efficiency and crop yields |
| 30 Aug | - | Global-warming cap can stimulate state economy, report says |
| 30 Aug | - | UC launches Calisphere website: A free public gateway to thousands of digitized primary sources |
| 30 Aug | - | Obituary: Chester O'Konski |
| 30 Aug | - | Obituary: Doris White |
| 30 Aug | - | News Briefs |
| 24 Aug | - | Orphaned monuments, green spaces … and all that jazz: Chancellor's Community Partnership Fund winners to work on service and neighborhood improvement |
| 24 Aug | - | U.S. News & World Report picks Berkeley as top public school againIn other rankings, we're No. 1 overall (and No. 2, No. 4, No. 14, No. 21…). But please, don't grade us by our parking crunch alone |
| 24 Aug | - | Distinguished professorship in Tibetan Buddhism established |
| 24 Aug | - | UC libraries announce partnership with Google to digitize books: 'Enormous benefits' of deal are emphasized by university leadership |
| 24 Aug | - | One more way the rich are different . . . : They have the money to act on their healthiest impulses. Differences in disability rates are evident even at higher rungs of the socioeconomic ladder, a new public-health study shows |
| 24 Aug | - | Haas researcher addresses gender, patents in academia: Female life scientists patent their discoveries less than half as often as their male peers. Risk-aversion may be a factor — though the worry is over their careers, not the rough-and-tumble of the marketplace |
| 24 Aug | - | Campus police step up focus on alcohol-related problems: 'Aggressive enforcement' of existing rules seen as essential component of successful control programs |
| 24 Aug | - | Vision-screening program provides care in Central Valley: Thousands of low-income residents at risk for diabetic retinopathy benefit from long-distance evaluations |
| 24 Aug | - | Awards |
| 24 Aug | - | Obituary: Austin Ranney |
| 24 Aug | - | Obituary: David Cudaback |
| 24 Aug | - | Obituary: Loring 'Lamont' Hill |
| 24 Aug | - | Obituary: Alfred Childs |
| 24 Aug | - | News Briefs |
| 23 Aug | - | Vice chancellor for equity and inclusion, a new post, to join campus leadership team: Chancellor Birgeneau, in meeting with local press, also announces selection of three diversity-research initiatives to receive new FTEs |
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July | ||
| 19 Jul | - | Governor signs 2006-07 budget: In keeping with state's compact with UC, it provides funding for faculty/staff raises. Also funded: enrollment growth without student-fee increases |
| 19 Jul | - | Egalitarian at the gates: After 23 years working to keep Berkeley's doors open to all, Richard Black, associate vice chancellor for admissions and enrollment, calls it a career |
| 19 Jul | - | When bachelorhood was taxed: Boalt librarian turned freelance historian had to read between the lines when researching gay relations in early America |
| 19 Jul | - | Postdoc foresees 'equitable learning' for deaf students: Deaf from birth, Marlon Kuntze studies distinctions between many of those who master American Sign Language early in life and those who learn it later. Among them: fluency in written English |
| 19 Jul | - | Reading, writing, 'rithmetic … and research: Undergrads learn about the fourth 'R' first-hand in summer lab-based programs |
| 19 Jul | - | University Relations' McQuade announces plans to step down |
| 19 Jul | - | Fresno's Raymond named Human Resources AVC |
| 19 Jul | - | Girls with ADHD continue to struggle academically and socially in adolescence, Berkeley researchers confirm |
| 19 Jul | - | Research Roundup |
| 19 Jul | - | Publications: Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty |
| 19 Jul | - | Awards |
| 19 Jul | - | Obituary: Robert Kerley |
| 19 Jul | - | Obituary: Jana Woodard |
| 19 Jul | - | Obituary: Theodore Cohn |
| 19 Jul | - | News Briefs |
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June | ||
| 31 May | - | I-House: 75 years old and going strong: Bringing residents together across cultural and economic divides |
| 31 May | - | ASUC Art Studio offers summer courses in multiple media |
| 31 May | - | Cody's final chapter: Like a book they didn't want to end, faculty recall the glory days of the historic Telegraph Avenue bookstore |
| 31 May | - | Forum spotlights staff diversity and inclusion |
| 31 May | - | Broughton named arts and humanities dean at L&S: Expert on Hume and Descartes to succeed Hexter in key role |
| 31 May | - | You can lead a president to the library : But can you make him read what Berkeley scholars think he should?? |
| 31 May | - | 'Keeping an open mind is hard work' (and other wisdom from the podium) |
| 31 May | - | Awards |
| 31 May | - | Obituary: George M. Foster |
| 31 May | - | Obituary: Willa Baum |
| 31 May | - | News Briefs |
| 03 May | - | New faculty-compensation policies introducedAcademic Senate learns of plan to make Berkeley a more competitive employer, beginning with a $6,000 'promotion increment' at tenure |
| 03 May | - | On and off the field, Cal athletics goes for the gold: There's good news and less-good news in the NCAA decadal self-study … but no 'systemic' problems |
| 03 May | - | Salaries, diversity on chancellor's mind in annual staff address |
| 03 May | - | From a confusing smorgasbord to one-stop shopping: bSpace, Berkeley's new collaboration and learning environment, provides tools for a variety of campus users |
| 03 May | - | Listening for the not-so-faint echo of the '60s: For two Berkeley researchers, communes and their denizens offer a fertile field for scholarship |
| 03 May | - | Politicians, poets, pundits to share their wisdom with '06 grads |
| 03 May | - | Berkeley Staff Assembly to celebrate managerial excellence: Staff organization will also acknowledge its own first quarter century at May 15 ceremony |
| 03 May | - | Campus staff issues to take center stage at May 9 diversity forum |
| 03 May | - | New issue of Chronicle of UC focuses on peripatetic scholars |
| 03 May | - | Awards |
| 03 May | - | News Briefs |
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April | ||
| 28 Apr | - | Chancellor delivers good news, sounds familiar themes in annual address to staff |
| 27 Apr | - | Minimum wage for certain low-paid employees is raised to $11.25Those paid as little as $9.39 will receive increase retroactive to April 1. Long in the planning, the decision was contingent on settlement of contract disputes with campus unions |
| 27 Apr | - | Faculty's digital divide: Access to computing resources varies widely. An Academic Senate committee offers a plan to level the playing field and safeguard network security |
| 27 Apr | - | Three faculty take home Distinguished Teaching Awards |
| 27 Apr | - | Are you listening to me?! : Podcasting technology doesn't just make courses available to students anytime, anywhere. The doors of Berkeley's classrooms are now open to an eager audience of listeners worldwide |
| 27 Apr | - | Berkeley's seismic, disaster-resistant efforts honored |
| 27 Apr | - | Awards |
| 27 Apr | - | News Briefs |
| 25 Apr | - | UCOP failed to seek approval for many executive-pay components, audit confirms: Data details compensation packages provided to 64 top administrators, but points no fingers. Dynes charged with explaining to regents in May who authorized what for whom when |
| 19 Apr | - | UC task force calls for 'sea change' in compensation policies, practices: Regents' panel lays out sweeping set of 21 recommendations to restore public trust. Saying he hears task force "loud and clear," Dynes announces first steps toward addressing problems |
| 19 Apr | - | Campus center to develop solutions to issues facing world's poorInitial funding of $15 million from UC Regent and philanthropist Richard Blum will jump-start center's efforts to alleviate poverty |
| 19 Apr | - | Diversity Research Initiative draws enthusiastic response: Ten faculty pre-proposals, from a surprising array of fields, advance to next phase |
| 19 Apr | - | This kind of climate change is welcome: The return of sunshine and blue skies augurs well for Cal Day weekend |
| 19 Apr | - | Milestone attained in quest for cheap antimalarial drugBecause developing nations can't spare the $2.40 per person it would take to protect millions from disease and death, the urgency of developing still-cheaper treatments fuels the push to synthesize artemisinin precursors |
| 19 Apr | - | Berkeley research team develops 'breakthrough' process to better control creation, deposition of nanofibers: Near-field electrospinning imposes order on 'random, chaotic process' — capturing nanofibers during their brief period of stability. Near-term potential for practical application is already identified |
| 19 Apr | - | J-school grad students win Lange photography prize |
| 19 Apr | - | Peripatetic whiz kid with a social conscience: This year's University Medalist tempers his wanderlust and technophilia with a strong desire to make a difference |
| 19 Apr | - | Awards |
| 19 Apr | - | News Briefs |
| 13 Apr | - | Attention, shoppers: avoid the center aisles: Nutritionist Marion Nestle's goal is to help consumers decide what to put in their grocery carts and on their plates |
| 13 Apr | - | Family-friendly policies for faculty are now 'an entitlement': Newly approved package of work-life benefits likely to give UC a competitive edge among academic employers |
| 13 Apr | - | Jasper Rine named million-dollar professor by Hughes Institute: He's now obliged — and eager — to craft a biology curriculum that integrates undergraduate research and experimentation. Coming soon: Bio 1A at the Greek?? |
| 13 Apr | - | Bancroft Library receives archives of San Francisco Examiner |
| 13 Apr | - | If it's the Bug Doctor, it must be Cal Day: April 22 campus open house to showcase, as always, the best of Berkeley |
| 13 Apr | - | What greater wisdom do the U.S. News graduate-school rankings provide?: Berkeley's disciplines — 11 this year — all finished in the top 10. The magazine offers no blanket institutional ranking to inspire cries of "We're No.1!" — but where there are data to crunch, there's always a way |
| 13 Apr | - | Who said the revolution won't be televised?: Art Museum's video installation puts politics front-and-center by giving Venezuelan factory workers a bully pulpit |
| 13 Apr | - | Pedal power to the people: Campus's first-ever bicycle plan charts a path toward greater reliance on non-motorized, two-wheeled commuting |
| 13 Apr | - | Pregnancy leave used for medical problems, not R&R: Availability of benefit found less central to women's decision to take leave than health issues, discomfort |
| 13 Apr | - | News Briefs |
| 05 Apr | - | Space agency's 2020 vision shortsighted, say campus astronomers: As NASA eyes Mars, deep cuts to its science budget could have 'devastating' impact on smaller-scale research projects, opportunities for students |
| 05 Apr | - | Strangers in a strange land master the phone and the air kiss: A collaboratively developed class on U.S. habits and practices is designed to help foreign-born scholars, their family members, and campus service workers accommodate themselves to America |
| 05 Apr | - | Campus researchers find unparalleled health effects from in utero and childhood arsenic exposure |
| 05 Apr | - | Student journalists report on 'Early Signs' of global warming: From Manitoba to Tanganyika, warnings of biotic and cultural change abound |
| 05 Apr | - | Care to try a really green salad?: By next spring, all four dining halls managed by Cal Dining will offer certified-organic salad bars |
| 05 Apr | - | The day the roof fell in: A serious campus accident in 1931 inspired the university to incorporate engineering into construction |
| 05 Apr | - | Helping the campus keep its summer resolutions: New Summer Sessions director Rick Russo is promoting innovations to attract students — while still working to solve such longstanding problems as enrollment growth and crowded core-course classes |
| 05 Apr | - | Because it's everybody's fault . . .: The campus host exhibits, conferences, and films that both celebrate and warn of the power of earthquakes |
| 05 Apr | - | News Briefs |
| 05 Apr | - | Will spouse swap = star status?: SSL astrophysicist Barry Welsh journeys to the mysterious Fox Galaxy |
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March | ||
| 23 Mar | - | A conversation with Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas: The former mayor of Mexico City — and a three-time candidate for Mexico's presidency — is concluding an extended campus visit . In this exchange he touches on such key issues as democratization, immigration, and NAFTA |
| 22 Mar | - | For UC labor studies, marketplace of ideas lacks a safety net: Governor's 'zeroing out' of multi-campus research program with ties to unions prompts charges of politically motivated 'reaching in' to university's domain |
| 22 Mar | - | UC to shed investments in firms with ties to Sudanese government |
| 22 Mar | - | What looks like a wetsuit and saves lives? |
| 22 Mar | - | Berkeley astronomers to participate in eclipse webcast |
| 22 Mar | - | Lawsuit targeting campus evolution website is dismissed in federal court: First Amendment defense not employed as judge rules plaintiffs lack standing |
| 22 Mar | - | Opinion: The Solomon Amendment in the Supreme Court |
| 22 Mar | - | Obituary: Nicholas Cozzarelli |
| 22 Mar | - | Obituary: Herbert McClosky |
| 22 Mar | - | News Briefs |
| 16 Mar | - | L&S dean Breslauer named EVC&P: Russia scholar pegged to replace Paul Gray at midyear |
| 16 Mar | - | Systemwide Academic Senate chair ousted: In unprecedented move, UCLA's Brunk is removed from office |
| 16 Mar | - | Top Iraq war correspondents discuss risking their lives to tell a truth that few want to hear — or believe |
| 16 Mar | - | From traditional airs to Gaelic jazz: Visiting artist Melanie O'Reilly works to preserve Irish roots music and craft new expressions of its spirit |
| 16 Mar | - | Report by Berkeley researchers sets framework for California leadership in 'green chemistry' policy: Authors warn that failure to craft forward-looking policies will negatively affect state's citizens and businesses, with impacts on everything from public and environmental health to government |
| 16 Mar | - | Reflecting Berkeley from the outside in: Frequently the focus of media coverage, the campus keeps track of who's paying attention with its own digital clipping service |
| 16 Mar | - | Berkeley, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and Stanford join forces to establish the Western Institute of Nanoelectronics |
| 16 Mar | - | Celebrating all things green: Sustainability group will fund new projects, honor best practices, and adopt a new logo |
| 16 Mar | - | Bear Pass program shifts into higher gear |
| 16 Mar | - | Awards: Recent faculty and staff awards. |
| 16 Mar | - | Obituary: Alan Foss |
| 16 Mar | - | News Briefs |
| 08 Mar | - | Berkeley Nobelist Owen Chamberlain dies at 85: A contributor to the development of atomic weaponry, he became an activist for a world free of nuclear terror |
| 08 Mar | - | A man of civility and conscience |
| 08 Mar | - | Researchers reach a new audience: NAS book series inspires 'tweens to take another look at science |
| 08 Mar | - | Was Katrina a human-rights disaster?: Boalt experts join coalition asking international commission to look into 'discriminatory' federal response to the hurricane |
| 08 Mar | - | Suitcase Clinic student volunteers are changing the world, one bare footstep at a time |
| 08 Mar | - | Smallest fossil Triceratops yields clues to dinosaur growth: Cast on display in Valley Life Sciences Building is of a unique 'yearling' specimen |
| 08 Mar | - | Cells, consciousness, and Shakespeare: Hitchcock, Foerster, and Avenali lecturers to address a stimulating range of topics in the coming weeks |
| 08 Mar | - | Administration control unit merges Budget and Finance with Business and Administrative Services |
| 08 Mar | - | $100,000 competition for bright ideas |
| 08 Mar | - | Management-award nominations due March 17 |
| 08 Mar | - | Obituary: Luna Leopold |
| 08 Mar | - | News Briefs |
| 01 Mar | - | Returning to the Capitol, top system officials insist they mean business: But state lawmakers, in their second hearing on executive-pay practices, wonder if UCOP and the regents can 'turn this ship around' |
| 01 Mar | - | Helen Prejean brings her sister act to Berkeley: The renowned author-activist, a consummate speaker and storyteller, urges her campus audience to engage in deeper reflection on capital punishment and the 'machinery of death' |
| 01 Mar | - | From Johannesburg to the Kodak Theater: J-school grad Dan Krauss' documentary about photojournalist Kevin Carter is nominated for an Oscar |
| 01 Mar | - | Policing thought after 9/11: An interview with historian Beshara Doumani on threats to academic freedom and the looming privatization of Middle East studies |
| 01 Mar | - | School of Public Health heroes for 2006 to be honored |
| 01 Mar | - | Newly funded project to track life cycle of water: Climate change and human actions accelerate the need to monitor changes in the water supply. Diverse data will be integrated into a model upon which future research will be based |
| 01 Mar | - | Berkeley and Duke team up to research U.S. foreign policies: Study of long-range approaches to global challenges an academic 'backwater' no more |
| 01 Mar | - | Thinking someone else's thoughts: A new book from UC Press showcases a decade's worth of noontime verse |
| 01 Mar | - | Awards |
| 01 Mar | - | News Briefs |
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February | ||
| 15 Feb | - | UC president acknowledges culpa-bility : At the first of two Sacramento hearings on executive compensation, Robert Dynes pledges to exert more control. But state legislators insist on more than apologies and promises |
| 15 Feb | - | Rainy-day womenBerkeley's government-affairs team strives to build relationships sturdy enough to withstand the occasional (and inevitable) public stoning |
| 15 Feb | - | Setting SMART goals is key to performance management: Collaboration between staff and managers will set the stage for next year's salary increases |
| 15 Feb | - | Jump-starting a global conversation: Artist-scholar Trinh T. Minh-ha is in dialogue with the world on issues issues of marginalization, 'radical impurity,' and 'still speed' |
| 15 Feb | - | An improbable Catholic: Upcoming 'Lunch Poems' reader Mary Karr finds reverence and dread in poetry, memoir, and prayer |
| 15 Feb | - | Berkeley moving back up as source of Peace Corps volunteers |
| 15 Feb | - | Probing the complex workings of DNA: Molecular biologist Cozzarelli to describe his work in Faculty Research Lecture |
| 15 Feb | - | Recruitment efforts pay off: Berkeley's fall 2006 applications set record |
| 15 Feb | - | Research Roundup |
| 15 Feb | - | Obituary: Bart McGuire |
| 15 Feb | - | New Briefs |
| 08 Feb | - | John Lie: thinking globally, researching competitively: The dean of International and Area Studies explores new ways to bring the world to Berkeley and get Berkeley out in the world |
| 08 Feb | - | Prestigious Mellon grant awarded to art history's Timothy Clark: Proceeds will allow him to continue his research, bring international conferences to campus, and attract top grad students |
| 08 Feb | - | If the Bancroft caught fire, what would you save? Planning the library's centennial exhibition forced curators to make difficult choices: Marshall's nugget, or a stunning edition of Chaucer? The selected items go on view at the Berkeley Art Museum this weekend |
| 08 Feb | - | 2006 UC summer programs for children |
| 08 Feb | - | Attention, orchid-gawkers!: These celebrity-status plants are on public display in Strawberry Canyon once more |
| 08 Feb | - | They're not about whether you win or lose: Greg Niemeyer finds both pleasure and insight in games from Roshambo to Pac-Man |
| 08 Feb | - | 'The situation is always changing': Improvisers from three UC campuses unite here this weekend for an evening of inventive, unpredictable sounds |
| 08 Feb | - | Holding a mirror to America: Renowned historian John Hope Franklin to appear in conversation with campus faculty |
| 08 Feb | - | Awards |
| 08 Feb | - | News Briefs |
| 02 Feb | - | 'We had no notions of being heroes…': Sergeant and sophomore Fonda Fan describes her year in Iraq, among the camel spiders, snakes, and snipers |
| 02 Feb | - | A subtle signature on the lay of the land: Life, among its other attributes, expresses itself geomorphologically |
| 02 Feb | - | Jarralynne Agee does 'the Po thing': CALS Project manager's 'urban drama' is staged in Bronson's new Random House release |
| 02 Feb | - | New leadership role for campus in global research : Elite institutions from four continents gathered in Singapore recently to launch the 10-member International Alliance of Research Universities. Berkeley's chancellor and dean of International and Area Studies participated |
| 02 Feb | - | Cellulosic tech will drive the future: Significant energy and environmental benefits are possible from fueling up with ethanol rather than petroleum |
| 02 Feb | - | A plethora of Berkeley events on UCTV in February |
| 02 Feb | - | Opinion |
| 02 Feb | - | Letters to the Editor |
| 02 Feb | - | Research Roundup |
| 02 Feb | - | News Briefs |
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January | ||
| 26 Jan | - | Early leadership on climate policy can pay off for California, study says: New UC-led report makes case that climate action to meet Governor Schwarzenegger's goals is likely to promote economic growth in the state |
| 26 Jan | - | The Republican right, and how it grew: Poli sci's Paul Pierson, co-author of Off Center, insists it's not the country that's changed — it's conservatives' control of the political machinery |
| 26 Jan | - | The joys of Academic Senate service . . .: or how I came to love the Committee on Committees |
| 26 Jan | - | Sneak preview of Spring 2006's coming attractions |
| 26 Jan | - | From Bubba to Baryshnikov : After 30 years at Cal Performances, Danny Nilles has seen 'em all — and worked hard to get their shows off the truck, on the stage, and back on the road again |
| 26 Jan | - | An ounce of prevention can avert a million-dollar lawsuit: Faculty and staff supervisors are required by state law to receive training on sexual-harassment issues |
| 26 Jan | - | Letter to the Editor |
| 26 Jan | - | Research Roundup: Milky Way's warp, a threat to the marbled murrelet, and methanogens on Mars |
| 26 Jan | - | News Briefs |
| 18 Jan | - | Getting Berkeley ready for business as unusual: After disaster strikes the region, critical campus functions will need to be resumed. Some 'incredible efforts' to plan for that day have already been made |
| 18 Jan | - | Strike up the band… and cue the choir: Students sing the praises of a parade of faculty heroes, whose everyday exploits enrich undergrads' lives |
| 18 Jan | - | Compensation controversy: 'This is the marketplace that we operate in,' says Birgeneau: Responding to media coverage of executive compensation at UC, the chancellor speaks out about the competitive realities the system – and the Berkeley campus – must address |
| 18 Jan | - | Surfing is safer — and smarter — with flotation devices: In Wikipedia's wake, two SIMS researchers assess the quality of online information, and find it strained |
| 18 Jan | - | Online tools for every stage in career growth |
| 18 Jan | - | Letters to the Editor |
| 18 Jan | - | Obituary: Henrik Blum |
| 18 Jan | - | News Briefs |
| 12 Jan | - | Former Chancellor Berdahl returns (briefly) to Berkeley: Later this spring, he'll assume helm of higher-ed advocacy org in D.C. |
| 12 Jan | - | Nathan Brostrom selected to fill key vice-chancellorial slot: Specialist in public finance is Birgeneau's choice to replace the departed Horace Mitchell and James Hyatt in expanded role |
| 12 Jan | - | America's wildest videos — coming to a monitor near you?: CONE technology aims at helping biologists monitor animal behavior from the comfort of their keyboards |
| 12 Jan | - | Sleuthing out Bay Area mystery novels: Bancroft librarian tracks down suspects for ambitious online bibliography |
| 12 Jan | - | ../../images of catastrophe, a century on: The Bancroft Library, celebrating its own centennial, limns the faults in the earth, the stars, and ourselves with '1906: The Great Quake — The History of a Disaster' |
| 12 Jan | - | Voter-approved boost in the minimum wage shown to add little to the cost of living well in San Francisco: Restaurant employment unaffected; menu prices increased only slightly during survey period |
| 12 Jan | - | Berkeley economist proposes Choose-Your-Charity policy : A change in regulations governing charitable giving could yield enough money to pay for a wealth of social programs |
| 12 Jan | - | Annual $30,000 grant established for faculty whose research or service contributes to diversity and equal opportunity |
| 12 Jan | - | Governor appoints energy professor emeritus Robert Sawyer to chair Air Resources Board |
| 12 Jan | - | Awards |
| 12 Jan | - | Obituary: Heinz Heinemann |
| 12 Jan | - | Obituary: Barbara Shearer |
| 12 Jan | - | Obituary: Charles Shain |
| 12 Jan | - | Letter to the Editor |
| 12 Jan | - | New Briefs |