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2008 Articles
| 11 Dec | - | Sustainability: A progress report: Berkeley demonstrates green leadership not just in the UC system but among universities nationwide | |
| 11 Dec | - | BILD-ing toward a more welcoming campus: The Berkeley Initiative for Leadership on Diversity reaches farther in year two | |
| 11 Dec | - | RFK Jr. vs. 'corporate plunder': In his Mario Savio Lecture, Kennedy argues that America's 'environmental destiny' hinges on an energetic democracy and a responsible press | |
| 11 Dec | - | "Well said!": Quotes, bon mots, and noteworthy utterances from the campus and beyond | |
| 11 Dec | - | Letter to the Editor: To the Berkeleyan: | |
| 11 Dec | - | Broccoli compound targets key enzyme in late-stage cancer | |
| 10 Dec | - | EEGs show brain differences between poor and rich kids: Researchers find that the effects of poverty show up in brain patterns that resemble frontal-lobe damage | |
| 11 Dec | - | Nobelist George Smoot to head cosmology center in South Korea: Research center at world's largest women's university will collaborate with Berkeley and Berkeley Lab scientists on understanding the origins of the universe | |
| 10 Dec | - | UC leaders call for new strategies to finance higher education: Christopher Edley, as Obama adviser, vows to advocate expanded federal role in supporting state schools | |
| 10 Dec | - | Three undergrads launch internship-matching site: Nationwide job board assists students in opening the door to their 'dream placement' | |
| 10 Dec | - | The psychology of teleology: To understand public resistance to evolution, it's helpful to think like a child | |
| 10 Dec | - | MBA students partner with national-lab scientists to commercialize clean tech | |
| 10 Dec | - | News Briefs | |
| 03 Dec | - | Where everybody knows your name: CAL Prep gets kids ready for Cal — and Cal ready for those kids | |
| 03 Dec | - | Initiative sets educational standards . . . the Berkeley way : Helping schools and departments think through what their undergrads should know | |
| 03 Dec | - | Economy tanking? Invest in higher ed: To dig out of recession, campus researcher advises, expand access to colleges and universities for tomorrow's 'human capital' | |
| 03 Dec | - | Economist Romer named to Obama's team: She'll be the third female CEA chair in 15 years to be recruited from Berkeley | |
| 03 Dec | - | Your marriage is likely to improve (after the kids leave) | |
| 03 Dec | - | "Well said!": Quotes, statements, bon mots, and noteworthy utterances from the campus and beyond | |
| 03 Dec | - | Grad-student 'lawyers with cameras' help rehabilitate Mexican 'justice': A legal system under which defendants rarely see a judge, or understand the proceedings against them, is ripe for reform | |
| 03 Dec | - | Grant will fund high-precision measurement lab in reconstructed Campbell Hall | |
| 03 Dec | - | Flexibility trumps fitness in sexual reproduction: So says a new theory in evolutionary biology, which emphasizes genes that play well with others | |
| 03 Dec | - | Jupiter's rocky core bigger and icier, model predicts: A new simulation suggests that methane, water, and ammonia ices surround the core, even though the planet's hydrogen-and-helium atmosphere contains hardly any ice | |
| 03 Dec | - | Obituary: Jody Ann Bussell | |
| 03 Dec | - | Obituary: Maurice Holt | |
| 03 Dec | - | Obituary: Frederick Sherman | |
| 03 Dec | - | Obituary: Charles Dekker | |
| 03 Dec | - | News Briefs | |
| November | |||
| 20 Nov | - | Big science and Berkeley's soul: As state funds shrivel, faculty reflect on how to avoid the potential pitfalls of campus's growing dependence on private research dollars | |
| 20 Nov | - | Pete Newell, Cal coaching legend, dies at 93 | |
| 20 Nov | - | Guantánamo detainees confirm 'arbitrary and humiliating' treatment by U.S. guards: Excerpts from Guantánamo and Its Aftermath | |
| 20 Nov | - | New report details shattered lives of released Guantánamo detainees: Interviews with dozens of former prisoners, guards, officials, and attorneys confirm 'cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment' | |
| 20 Nov | - | The 'five W's' go to multimedia boot camp : Film at 11? That's so Old School — try Flash at dawn, streaming video at noon, and enthusiastic local coverage around the clock. Berkeley's first-year journalism students aim to succeed where newspapers have failed | |
| 20 Nov | - | Evolution exhibit honoring F. Clark Howell debuts in VLSB: 'Skeletal tableau' of human ancestors is designed to educate and inspire visitors | |
| 20 Nov | - | It's My Job: Alondra Blandon | |
| 20 Nov | - | "Well said!": Quotes, statements, bon mots, and noteworthy utterances from the campus and beyond | |
| 20 Nov | - | Chemistry Nobelist to assume ICSU leadership | |
| 20 Nov | - | Campus center honors green, effective workplaces | |
| 20 Nov | - | Laurels: Blue ribbons, gold stars, honorable mentions | |
| 20 Nov | - | News Corp.'s Peter Chernin to inaugurate English department's alumni conversations | |
| 20 Nov | - | Vitamin C shown to lower levels of inflammation biomarker | |
| 20 Nov | - | News Briefs | |
| 12 Nov | - | How the governor’s latest budget proposals affect UC and its employees: As Schwarzenegger’s proposals move to the Legislature for consideration, the outcome and impact are still uncertain | |
| 12 Nov | - | Popular spot-award program increases payout for performance: Hundreds of hardworking staff have earned hundreds of dollars apiece this way. For 2008-09, it’s worth even more | |
| 12 Nov | - | UC Retirement Plan update: UC President Mark Yudof has distributed the following message to all members of the University of California community | |
| 12 Nov | - | "Well said!": Quotes, statements, bon mots, and noteworthy utterances from the campus and beyond | |
| 12 Nov | - | Obituary: John Fuller | |
| 12 Nov | - | Obituary: Janet Williams | |
| 12 Nov | - | News Briefs | |
| 07 Nov | - | Staff climate survey launches next week: Feedback to Equity and Inclusion division will help shape future projects | |
| 05 Nov | - | What’s in that stuff? Ask GoodGuide: Fretting over the hidden health, environmental, and social costs of the things you buy? Professor-cum-entrepreneur Dara O’Rourke felt a need, and filled it | |
| 05 Nov | - | Do babies matter in science?: A true measure of gender equity in academia would look at both the career and family outcomes of female Ph.D.s | |
| 05 Nov | - | Putting people before profits: The way this year’s Weinstock lecturer, Amory Lovins, crunches the numbers, the bottom line — for capitalists as much as for conservationists — depends on taking nature into account | |
| 05 Nov | - | A Bay Region master: The architecture of Joseph Esherick finally gets its due | |
| 05 Nov | - | The meetings are virtual, the savings are real: Campus’s videoconferencing service provides a cost-effective, greener way to bring people together | |
| 05 Nov | - | "Well said!": Quotes, statements, bon mots, and noteworthy utterances from the campus and beyond | |
| 05 Nov | - | Cross-race friendships can lower stress: Subjects with racial biases relaxed — and made friends — with social exposure, interactions, and communication | |
| 05 Nov | - | Six Berkeley faculty members among new Fulbright Scholars for 2008-09 | |
| 05 Nov | - | Ants who crave the salt of the earth: How can you identify the researchers who discovered that Pecan Sandy cookies really bring ants running? They’re the ones with little bees up their noses | |
| 05 Nov | - | Obituary: Jon Gjerde | |
| 05 Nov | - | Obituary: Sharon Harvey | |
| 05 Nov | - | News Briefs | |
| October | |||
| 29 Oct | - | In what ways is Obama ‘different’? : Twenty-five years after he first measured the so-called Bradley effect, Charles Henry weighs in on race, unity, and the perspicacity of Chris Rock | |
| 29 Oct | - | Birgeneau: Prepare for worsening budget picture: Temporary solution spares units from the brunt of a state-mandated midyear cut, but chancellor calls on campus to curb spending now and brace for the future | |
| 29 Oct | - | November is Open Enrollment month: UC steps in to shield employees from increasing costs; few changes will be made to healthcare plans | |
| 29 Oct | - | He who steals my artwork steals . . . what, exactly?: One side in this debate claims that appropriating visual imagery in the digital age is a legitimate artistic enterprise; the other insists it’s the illegal use of another’s intellectual property. It’s one question among many to be considered at a campus conference next week | |
| 29 Oct | - | "Well said!": Quotes, statements, bon mots, and noteworthy utterances from the campus and beyond | |
| 29 Oct | - | Homeland insecurity: Storyteller and musician Laurie Anderson on art and technology | |
| 29 Oct | - | EBI named tech-transfer ‘Deal of Distinction’ | |
| 29 Oct | - | Denser computer chips possible with plasmonic lenses that ‘fly’ | |
| 29 Oct | - | This is your brain on adolescence: MRI studies of young people’s brains show why kids often act before they think | |
| 29 Oct | - | News Briefs | |
| 22 Oct | - | Regents approve final budget for 2008-09: Budget reductions and unfunded cost increases for the current year add up to tough times for UC campuses and UCOP | |
| 22 Oct | - | Geologist Walter Alvarez receives top earth-sciences award: His pioneering work on mass-extinction events helped change our view of evolution | |
| 22 Oct | - | Cracking the chronic-poverty code: Living in housing projects for nearly a decade, Berkeley ethnographer Martín Sánchez-Jankowski discovered a ‘subculture of scarcity’ that resists middle-class values but makes the lives of the poor richer | |
| 22 Oct | - | An online resource for resourceful voters: Polls, endorsements, analysis: Public Affairs’ election website pulls it all together | |
| 22 Oct | - | Did Earl Warren wink?: There are some parallels between the GOP’s 1948 vice-presidential candidate and this year’s ... but the differences are what’s striking | |
| 22 Oct | - | ‘Moving forward against strong opposing forces’ : Choreographer Sue Li Jue, who teaches at Berkeley, produces an evening of dance and live music | |
| 22 Oct | - | Warming in Yosemite sends small mammals packing to higher, cooler elevations: Resurvey of Grinnell’s famed transect through the park shows ‘what has changed and why.’ Climate is part of the answer | |
| 22 Oct | - | Counting kangaroo rats from space: Using a borrowed spy satellite to spot this species’ distinctive burrow entrances, researchers track their numbers in hopes of protecting biodiversity on the Carrizo Plain in south-central California | |
| 22 Oct | - | It's My Job: Ben Hubbard | |
| 22 Oct | - | Higher risk of adult obesity linked to extra cash from government program | |
| 22 Oct | - | Obituary: David Freedman | |
| 22 Oct | - | News Briefs | |
| 15 Oct | - | UC holds the line on health costs for 2009: Most employees will pay less in premiums than in 2008, or only slightly more, thanks to the UC system’s infusion of cash support | |
| 15 Oct | - | Dozens of East Bay climate-change researchers to gather at I-House: Some 2,000 scientists contributed to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning IPCC report on global warming. Next week, the local contingent will be honored | |
| 15 Oct | - | What Haruki Murakami talks about when he talks about writing: Popular Japanese author is awarded the first Berkeley Japan Prize during campus visit | |
| 15 Oct | - | News Briefs | |
| 09 Oct | - | Greyhounds and bloodhounds: At a forum on the U.S. financial collapse, campus experts follow the trail to the roots of the crisis, hold their noses for a hard-to-swallow $700 billion bailout | |
| 09 Oct | - | Repairs to Sather Gate, a true campus icon, to start this week: Campus’s south portal is showing its age. But by next spring it will be ‘ready to weather another 100 years’ | |
| 09 Oct | - | Smashing the Berkeley myth: Participatory democracy, individualism, the good life — what could be more all-American? | |
| 09 Oct | - | Faculty Program for Engaged Scholarship prioritizes service: For many, making a difference begins in the classroom and extends to the community | |
| 09 Oct | - | Impact of terror threats on electorate studied: Political moderates found less likely to tilt rightward | |
| 10 Oct | - | PACE studies offer recommendations for California schools: Status report from multi-campus center for education-policy research coincides with celebration of its first 25 years | |
| 09 Oct | - | Campus, LBNL partner to address India’s energy, economic priorities | |
| 10 Oct | - | Asian Americans could play key role in the presidential race, study shows: America’s fastest-growing ethnic grouping may spell the difference in swing states | |
| 10 Oct | - | Barbara Boxer pays a call | |
| 09 Oct | - | News Briefs | |
| 02 Oct | - | Band on the run marks its 50th reunion: The Cal Band of ’58 was all over the map: from Berkeley to Brussels and back, with a quick detour to the Russian pavilion | |
| 01 Oct | - | Why is Wall Street in shambles? | |
| 01 Oct | - | Nuclear weapons: Countdown to zero?: Berkeley experts join George Shultz, others on Commonwealth Club panel | |
| 01 Oct | - | Berkeley’s Tjian to head Howard Hughes Medical Institute, top provider of private funds for biomedical research | |
| 01 Oct | - | Karl Kasten keeps his hand in: The emeritus professor of art practice — a member of the famed Berkeley School — remains active and energetic. So does his art, now on display in a campus retrospective | |
| 01 Oct | - | NIH honors Berkeley bioengineer: New Innovator Award, with its $1.5 million payout, goes to Sanjay Kumar, investigator of cellular mechanics | |
| 01 Oct | - | Modern China defies Western notions, says journalist James Fallows: Nation is ‘fractured’ and contradictory, but neither a military nor an economic threat . . . if handled properly | |
| 01 Oct | - | What’s up when stars glow but don’t blow?: Scientists aren’t sure what force can cause a star to brighten almost to supernova intensity without destroying it in the process | |
| 01 Oct | - | Governor signs bill to protect academic researchers | |
| 02 Oct | - | Haas' Karlene Roberts studies asteroid-defense strategy | |
| 01 Oct | - | Obituary: Robert Royston | |
| 01 Oct | - | Letters to the Editor | |
| 01 Oct | - | News Briefs | |
| September | |||
| 24 Sep | - | ‘Thanks to Berkeley’ rings out across campus: The curtain goes up on a $3 billion fundraising effort, with a bevy of public and private events — and one grand unveiling | |
| 24 Sep | - | Courts reporter supreme on the law and the press: In two campus appearances, former New York Times correspondent Linda Greenhouse looks back on three decades at the Court | |
| 24 Sep | - | Politics and Pipelines: If it’s relevant to California’s water history, past or present, it’s on the shelves of Berkeley’s Water Resources Center Archive | |
| 24 Sep | - | ‘An outflowing of love’ for the Cal Band’s emeritus director: Robert O. Briggs, dead at 81, ‘understood, nurtured, tolerated, and instructed’ generations of band members | |
| 24 Sep | - | Obituary: Paola Timiras | |
| 24 Sep | - | News Briefs | |
| 18 Sep | - | Revisiting the human-rights horror in Cambodia: It’s taken this long to bring just five likely Khmer Rouge killers before a tribunal. Wouldn’t it be easier simply to ‘bury the past’ and move on? Sophal Ear isn’t sure | |
| 18 Sep | - | Charting China’s post-Mao history through its art: Berkeley Art Museum’s “Mahjong” takes visitors on a 40-year tour of Chinese creativity | |
| 17 Sep | - | What we don’t know (yet) about biofuels: EBI director Chris Somerville on the quest to create next-generation fuels | |
| 17 Sep | - | San Francisco Examiner archive offers a glimpse of local history | |
| 17 Sep | - | It's My Job: Karyn Houston | |
| 17 Sep | - | March 19 gamma-ray burst was first ever visible to the naked eye: Berkeley researchers burned the midnight oil to generate the first published report of the phenomenon | |
| 17 Sep | - | Berkeley engineers create new gecko-like adhesive: Imagine a sticky tape that not only doesn’t gather dirt like a magnet, but shakes the stuff off like . . . well, like a gecko’s foot | |
| 17 Sep | - | Genome sequence deepens mystery of inconspicuous sea creature: Once thought, by virtue of its simplicity, to be the oldest ancestor of all animals, Trichoplax adhaerens has been shown to be younger than the sponges, but still a potential key to our understanding of early life | |
| 17 Sep | - | News Briefs | |
| 12 Sep | - | Campus honors those it has lost | |
| 12 Sep | - | Events mark countdown to campaign kickoff: Largest-ever campus fundraising drive will be launched next week | |
| 11 Sep | - | None dare call them foodies: As an audience with an insatiable appetite for sustainability listened, an expert panel picked over the appetizing carcass of Slow Food Nation | |
| 11 Sep | - | With creative thinking from all, at Berkeley there will be blood: Federal rules prohibit gay men from donating blood, so campus health officials consider alternative approaches | |
| 11 Sep | - | Tree-sitters’ last stand | |
| 11 Sep | - | A week of Constitutional conversation: Journalists, judges, politicos, and scholars share the spotlight as the campus observes Constitution Day | |
| 11 Sep | - | Laurels: Blue ribbons, gold stars, honorable mentions | |
| 11 Sep | - | Automated bus uses magnets to steer through city streets: Researchers now ‘a step closer’ to readying system for urban rollout, as a lower-cost alternative to light rail | |
| 11 Sep | - | Studies assess impacts of Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind reforms: ‘Implementation breakdowns’ occur as schools wrestle with accountability requirements | |
| 11 Sep | - | Campus hosts federal task force on sustainable energy: Decades of potential progress have been “frittered away,” said Berkeley’s Dan Kammen | |
| 11 Sep | - | Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine on their minds: A panel of campus experts found consensus in their views of recent events in the former Soviet Union | |
| 11 Sep | - | Obituary: Michael Baxandall | |
| 11 Sep | - | News Briefs | |
| 03 Sep | - | Coming attractions at UC Berkeley for fall 2008: Power and politics at home and abroad | |
| 03 Sep | - | Getting graphic: Morrison Library revives artwork-lending program begun in 1950s: Faculty and staff can borrow framed prints from the comfort of their cubes | |
| 03 Sep | - | EBI launches fall biofuels seminar series | |
| 03 Sep | - | Clark Kerr campus to host all-day energy roundtable: Thursday, Sept. 4, task-force meeting will address challenges facing researchers | |
| 03 Sep | - | Obituary: Alice Taylor | |
| 03 Sep | - | News Briefs | |
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August | |||
| 27 Aug | - | WarnMe system designed to notify you of emergencies quickly: Stay connected to the campus while staying safe, as emergency alerts reach you by phone, e-mail or text | |
| 27 Aug | - | For the press, Birgeneau lays out fall priorities: Bolster the budget, protect the academic program, and make all students feel welcome | |
| 27 Aug | - | What Biden brings to the party: As the Democrats convene in Denver, Berkeley’s top pundits and political handicappers assess Barack Obama’s choice for veep | |
| 27 Aug | - | Berkeley’s online calendar wins UC’s top technology award: Innovative portal, the product of a combined student/staff effort, puts hundreds of campus events at your fingertips | |
| 27 Aug | - | All that glitters | |
| 27 Aug | - | Four young scientists touted as top innovators: National magazines declare two chemists and two astronomers from Berkeley to be outstanding in their fields | |
| 27 Aug | - | A preview of poetry and prose readings: For literature lovers, Lunch Poems and Story Hour deliver the goods | |
| 27 Aug | - | U.S. News again declares Berkeley the nation’s top public university: Undergrad engineering, business programs do well in latest rankings | |
| 27 Aug | - | FASDI helps Berkeley get its facts together: It’s a system focused on integrating data from all over campus into maps, websites, and other platforms that make information — currently lodged in dozens of silos — more available to all | |
| 27 Aug | - | To preserve, protect, defend, and hang out: Presidents keeping busy are the focus of this photo exhibit | |
| 27 Aug | - | Obituary: Elizabeth "Betsy" Badè Bacon | |
| 27 Aug | - | Obituary: Raymond Kent | |
| 27 Aug | - | News Briefs | |
| 21 Aug | - | From the Bronx to Berkeley: After a summer of study funded by a generous alum, nine sharp city kids wound up feeling that college might be in their futures after all | |
| 21 Aug | - | Building an energy 'cathedral': Local high-schoolers, some without a Bunsen burner to their names, explored cutting-edge science at Berkeley this summer | |
| 21 Aug | - | Chancellor's Community Partnership Fund grants awarded: Campus partners help support Berkeley projects promoting neighborhood improvement and other local goals | |
| 21 Aug | - | Startling amphibian decline a sign of larger biodiversity crisis: The sixth in a series of global extinction events is decimating populations that survived the dinosaurs | |
| 21 Aug | - | Berkeley virologist named a Keck Distinguished Young Scholar | |
| 21 Aug | - | Beth Burnside, campus's research chief, to step down | |
| 21 Aug | - | A bill to protect animal researchers: Measure passed by state Senate committee may be voted on soon | |
| 21 Aug | - | It's my job: Darin Jensen | |
| 21 Aug | - | Screening for diabetes in an emergency setting: At Highland Hospital in Oakland, a UC student tests the ER’s capacity to address an epidemic | |
| 21 Aug | - | A natural talent: Be it with camera or paintbrush, Administration's Rita Gardner gets the picture | |
| 21 Aug | - | New book distills essential physics for the next president: Who should teach him to predict the course of a rogue asteroid — Dr. Strangelove or Richard Muller?? | |
| 21 Aug | - | A residential scholar is in the house: Geography's Paul Groth explores the many ways in which Americans inhabit their homes | |
| 21 Aug | - | Obituary: Neil Bartlett | |
| 21 Aug | - | News Briefs | |
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July | |||
| 17 Jul | - | Summer shines on a bumper crop of new deans: Appointments—at Haas, Goldman, Extension, Chemistry, L&S, CED, and CNR—await formal approval this week | |
| 17 Jul | - | Campus rolls out red carpet for returning troops: New GI Bill provides substantial financial aid; expect to see ‘some pretty happy veterans’ here soon | |
| 17 Jul | - | Chancellor Birgeneau honored with Academic Leadership Award: Carnegie Corporation recognizes ‘leading spokesman’ for higher ed | |
| 17 Jul | - | Two recently named to vice-chancellorial posts: Harry Le Grande to head student affairs permanently; Yeary will help guide campus planning and finances | |
| 17 Jul | - | A champion of equity and fairness: Ombudsperson Carmen McKines retires after four decades at Berkeley | |
| 17 Jul | - | Richard Karp, computer theorist, awarded 2008 Kyoto Prize | |
| 17 Jul | - | Astrophysicist Reinhard Genzel wins million-dollar Shaw Prize: Few have spent more time pondering the nature of our galactic center | |
| 17 Jul | - | Research Roundup | |
| 17 Jul | - | Research Roundup | |
| 17 Jul | - | Obituary: Alfred Arteaga | |
| 17 Jul | - | Obituary: Clay Felker | |
| 17 Jul | - | Obituary: Joseph Frisch | |
| 17 Jul | - | Obituary: Gunther Stent | |
| 17 Jul | - | News Briefs | |
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June | |||
| 04 Jun | - | Stepping down, but staying the course: Caroline Kane is retiring after a quarter-century of biochemical research and full-bore activism on behalf of student diversity | |
| 04 Jun | - | PG&E incentives lead to significant savings: Energy conservation on campus profits from partnership with utility | |
| 04 Jun | - | Where Were You in ‘68?: Faculty and staff memories conjure a tumultuous decade’s most eventful year. | |
| 04 Jun | - | ‘An inch of time should be highly prized’: (and other wisdom from the podium) | |
| 04 Jun | - | Historian Stovall is new L&S undergraduate dean | |
| 04 Jun | - | Howard Hughes Medical Institute names five Berkeley faculty as investigators | |
| 04 Jun | - | Charles Henry receives Chancellor’s Award: Professor of African American Studies receives kudo for advancing institutional excellence | |
| 04 Jun | - | Obituary: Murray Protter | |
| 04 Jun | - | Obituary: David Hooson | |
| 04 Jun | - | Obituary: Don Rogers | |
| 04 Jun | - | News Briefs | |
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May | |||
| 08 May | - | On sexual and gender diversity: A statement of principle from Chancellor Birgeneau | |
| 08 May | - | Graduation season gets under way: Words of wisdom to flow from faculty and off-campus speakers | |
| 08 May | - | Top senior wants ‘to be happy and help others be happy’: Infectious-disease detective and champion of Chinese orphans overcame shyness to achieve her goals | |
| 08 May | - | Games aside, the real Olympic challenge is engaging with China: Scholars and artists depict a race against the Asian nation’s rising carbon emissions and unsustainable development | |
| 08 May | - | Energy Biosciences Institute funds 49 first-year projects: Work will focus on cellulosic biofuels — their development, production, and impacts | |
| 08 May | - | Two learned societies elect five Berkeley faculty: NAS taps Botchan, Rine, and Smoot; APS welcomes Rochberg, Schekman | |
| 08 May | - | Berkeley Citations awarded to Cummins, SPH’s Spear | |
| 08 May | - | Clean-energy ventures dominate 2008 Global Social Venture Competition | |
| 08 May | - | Chemical giant Dow funds 23 sustainability projects: Designed by faculty and students, most of the funded innovations address such global needs as clean drinking water and resource-efficient cookstoves — though one will help grantees market their products | |
| 08 May | - | A stove created at Berkeley to help refugee women survive the dinner hour | |
| 08 May | - | Research Roundup | |
| 08 May | - | Obituary: Cathleen Keller | |
| 08 May | - | News Briefs | |
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April | |||
| 30 Apr | - | John Cummins puts controversy behind him : As chief of staff to four chancellors, he’shandled protests, hostage crises, bomb threats, evacuations, town-gown disputes, and whatever else came his way | |
| 30 Apr | - | Quok Shee on Angel Island: A new book by Haas administrator Robert Barde tells a sorry tale of immigration, American-style | |
| 30 Apr | - | Cell-phone video: It’s not just for YouTube anymore: Researchers harness ubiquitous technology to bring medical imaging to underserved populations | |
| 30 Apr | - | For a beloved maestro, a very grand finale: Cal Performances’ 2008-09 season will be an extended sendoff for its longtime director, Robert Cole | |
| 30 Apr | - | Lawrence Rinder named to helm BAM/PFA: He returns to the museum after a decade away to oversee its new-building campaign and expanded programming | |
| 30 Apr | - | A new leader named for university communications: Holmes to play key role in advising chancellor, campus leaders | |
| 30 Apr | - | Campus receives coveted ‘green’ certification for Haste Street child center : Facility provides an environmentally friendly framework for young Golden Bears, and makes protecting the planet a part of their daily lives | |
| 30 Apr | - | A snapshot of student reading habits over two decades: Surveys identify ephemeral, and enduring, choices — from Austen to Obama | |
| 30 Apr | - | Laurels: Blue ribbons, gold stars, and honorable mentions | |
| 30 Apr | - | News Briefs | |
| 24 Apr | - | Understanding Underhill: Completed projects help meet a range of campus needs | |
| 23 Apr | - | Bottom line on the Berkeley budget: With the UC system facing a $417 million shortfall from the state, the campus strives to keep the pain to a minimum | |
| 23 Apr | - | Sustainability Summit: A coming of age?: Students, staff, and faculty pitched in, prodded, and preached the green gospel | |
| 23 Apr | - | Low cortisol levels found in children of mothers with depressive symptoms | |
| 23 Apr | - | Sudden Oak Death pathogen is evolving, says new study: Conditions favorable to the pathogen have led to rapid spread of SOD to areas distant from its sites of origin in Northern California | |
| 23 Apr | - | Obituary: Alex Farrell | |
| 23 Apr | - | News Briefs | |
| 16 Apr | - | Setting minds ablaze since 1959: For half a century, the campus has honored its top teachers with the Distinguished Teaching Award. Four new recipients carry on the tradition | |
| 16 Apr | - | This year’s Sustainability Summit definitely has an agenda: It just isn’t printed on paper. Walking the walk, organizers plan for the day’s big events to make a minimal mess | |
| 16 Apr | - | UC researchers uncover new clues to a hidden dementia: FTLD affects the sufferer’s emotions, which makes it easy to overlook | |
| 16 Apr | - | Bush under fire, friendly and otherwise: President gets low marks at a campus retrospective, and his former re-election strategist is the toughest grader of all | |
| 16 Apr | - | Sights, sounds, and stories from around the world : PFA curator Susan Oxtoby shares her picks from the San Francisco International Film Festival | |
| 16 Apr | - | Obituary: Gerard Caspary | |
| 16 Apr | - | News Briefs | |
| 09 Apr | - | Honoring those who keep the place running: Annual day of recognition for top-flight staff was April 3 | |
| 09 Apr | - | A chronicle of Berkeley: Nut Hill, chained suffragettes, and all: The town and the campus are joined at the historical hip, says Berkeley City College prof Charles Wollenberg | |
| 09 Apr | - | Pulitzer for a poet: Berkeley’s Robert Hass shares 2008 award for his collection Time and Materials | |
| 09 Apr | - | Fruit and flowers honor a teacher who ‘knows her stuff’: This year’s student-initiated Golden Apple Award goes to Ananya Roy | |
| 09 Apr | - | A snapshot of diversity, Berkeley-style: In a two-day photo session, hundreds of staff, faculty, and students line up to say ‘cheese’ . . . . and ‘thank you’ | |
| 09 Apr | - | For men’s basketball program, new hire’s nothing but net: Mike Montgomery, who led Stanford (yes, Stanford) to four Pac-10 titles and a tournament crown, takes the reins as Cal’s head coach a quick week following Ben Braun’s departure | |
| 09 Apr | - | Shades of gray . . . with a touch of black-and-blue: In her first novel, English lecturer Melanie Abrams takes a literary yet erotic approach to dominant/submissive sex | |
| 09 Apr | - | Chancellor speaks truth to power in D.C.: At Senate hearing on greenhouse-gas emissions, Birgeneau outlines campus’s leadership, calls for tighter restrictions to curb global warming | |
| 09 Apr | - | Experts’ guesstimate: Cal Day could reach SPF30 | |
| 09 Apr | - | Latest U.S. News graduate rankings spotlight Berkeley’s breadth | |
| 09 Apr | - | Obituary: Robert Mishell | |
| 09 Apr | - | News Briefs | |
| 02 Apr | - | Regents pick University of Texas chancellor to lead UC system: A legal scholar who’s headed two major public universities, Mark Yudof stresses accountability, vows to ‘earn the confidence of the people of California every day’ | |
| 02 Apr | - | Meet the (flesh-eating) beetles — performing one day only: That would be Cal Day, naturally, a multi-species extravaganza of science, art, awesomeness, and just plain fun for the whole Cal family | |
| 02 Apr | - | Opening up, or dumbing down?: Web 2.0 ‘creates an environment where anyone can say anything.’ That’s either the beginning of wisdom, the end of civilization as we know it, or something in between | |
| 02 Apr | - | All keyed up: 25 students vie for an 80-year-old Steinway: Generosity and serendipity both play a part in the first Berkeley Piano Competition | |
| 02 Apr | - | It's My Job | |
| 02 Apr | - | Rap music’s growing addiction to drugs: Decades after Public Enemy warned of the dangers of crack, a new study raises public-health concerns over today’s artists’ linking of drugs to creativity, wealth, and status | |
| 02 Apr | - | Wrapping our arms around octopus love: Biologists find the secretive sea creatures’ mating behavior is surprisingly complex, featuring gender-bending, flirting, and, yes, plenty of hand-holding | |
| 02 Apr | - | Literary scholar Annabel Patterson to deliver Tanner Lectures: Talks to range from Bacon and Locke to American values | |
| 02 Apr | - | Laurels : Celebrating Berkeley’s blue ribbons, gold stars, and honorable mentions | |
| 02 Apr | - | Research Roundup | |
| 02 Apr | - | Obituary: David Gale | |
| 02 Apr | - | Letter to the Editor | |
| 02 Apr | - | News Briefs | |
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March | |||
| 20 Mar | - | Migrating to El Norte: Opinion by Alvaro Huerta | |
| 19 Mar | - | East Asian Library is open for business: The campus's far-flung collections have a stunning new home | |
| 19 Mar | - | A new honor for indefatigable former faculty: The first Dickson Emeriti Professorship recognizes the ongoing work of Joseph Duggan< | |
| 19 Mar | - | Faculty and student scholars ponder a world on the move: Sociologist Irene Bloemraad seeks to raise the profile of migration studies at Berkeley, where a new generation of students from immigrant families is coming of age | |
| 19 Mar | - | Understanding the Middle East, or not: In separate Nimitz lectures, a retired top general and the former head of the CIA’s bin Laden desk offer sharply conflicting views of al Qaeda, Iraq, and U.S. foreign policy | |
| 19 Mar | - | Anniversary of a rebellion: What veteran of ’60s protests can view Serge Hambourg’s photos and not murmur, ‘We’ll always have Paris’? | |
| 19 Mar | - | Fun and enlightenment for 35,000 will be the order of the day : Cal Day, the campus’s annual open house, is April 12 | |
| 19 Mar | - | Daniel Boyarin will deliver Faculty Research Lecture: His April 1 talk on Plato and the Talmud is the second of two lectures in the 2008 series | |
| 19 Mar | - | Berkeley and Stanford to conduct joint stem-cell research | |
| 19 Mar | - | Research Roundup | |
| 19 Mar | - | New Briefs | |
| 12 Mar | - | A peer-to-peer-support resource is born: The Disability Staff Resource Network aims to empower employees seeking workplace accommodations | |
| 12 Mar | - | Alarming increase in growth of China’s CO2 emissions anticipated: Now the top emitter of carbon dioxide worldwide, China is especially culpable, researchers say, for its tolerance of provincial pollution during its rush to development | |
| 12 Mar | - | Human trafficking steps from the shadows: On the eve of International Women’s Day, attention turns to the largely invisible issue of modern-day slavery | |
| 12 Mar | - | Chemist to deliver year’s first Faculty Research Lecture | |
| 12 Mar | - | A handout to help break the cycle of poverty: Extra cash given to low-income Mexican families is linked to better child development. Based on its success, a similar program is underway in New York City | |
| 12 Mar | - | Accrediting commission notes UC compensation and governance reforms | |
| 12 Mar | - | School of Public Health to honor its ‘heroes’ in annual ceremony | |
| 12 Mar | - | Laurels : Celebrating Berkeley’s blue ribbons, gold stars, and honorable mentions | |
| 12 Mar | - | Obituary: John Freeman | |
| 12 Mar | - | News Briefs | |
| 05 Mar | - | Online calculator yields a personal carbon footprint: By enabling household-to-household comparisons, it helps users better estimate the impact of their energy-saving actions | |
| 05 Mar | - | Prime-time torture gets a reality check: Jack Bauer, the hero of 24, is an unalloyed force for truth, justice, and the American way — at least on the tube. The real world is more complicated | |
| 05 Mar | - | All in the job family: Tips to help managers, supervisors, and staff navigate the next phase of Career Compass | |
| 05 Mar | - | Berkeley to partner with new Saudi university: Department of Mechanical Engineering to receive $28 million over five years for its role in establishing a counterpart in the desert kingdom. Assurances are offered regarding the rights of women and other participants | |
| 05 Mar | - | ¡Caramba! Gordo comes to Berkeley: Gus Arriola’s much-loved comic strip, published almost continuously from 1941 until 1985, brought Mexico to millions of readers north of the border. Now his chubby tour guide’s archives have found a home at the Bancroft | |
| 05 Mar | - | UC to offer admission to all eligible undergraduates for 2008-09: California’s budget challenge deepens; enrolling additional students in the future without state funding is ‘not sustainable,’ says Provost Hume | |
| 05 Mar | - | Public-health worker shortage will leave the nation vulnerable, according to new ASPH report: Experts at the School of Public Health confirm that the crisis will have an impact on California | |
| 05 Mar | - | Public schools in California are performing better, says PACE policy brief, though ‘rough edges’ persist: Despite insufficient resources and increasing diversity, schools are ‘generally moving in the right direction’ | |
| 05 Mar | - | Exhibit to depict a century of student fashion on the Berkeley campus: From the plugs of a century ago to the fauxhawks of today, campus couture has tracked larger social influences | |
| 05 Mar | - | News Briefs | |
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February | |||
| 27 Feb | - | Keeping the fruits of knowledge within reach: The Berkeley Research Impact Initiative explores alternatives to traditional publishing models | |
| 27 Feb | - | Milquetoasts need not apply?: As demonstrators targeted the moderator, a panel of legal experts discussed the next president’s role in shaping the federal judiciary | |
| 27 Feb | - | Solar panels ‘a loser’ in the search for affordable energy: Solar-photovoltaic systems not only cost four times as much money as they ‘save,’ says Haas School researcher Severin Borenstein, but they’re installed in the wrong places | |
| 27 Feb | - | The Promise of Berkeley: Keeping the Cal family in touch | |
| 27 Feb | - | Bigfoot casts a philosophical shadow: On the heels of Darwin Day, the Hearst Museum displays plaster casts of alleged Sasquatch footprints — and ponders the nature of evidence and truth | |
| 27 Feb | - | Digital-media grants will fund new projects: By exploring air pollution in Cairo and Los Angeles, and teaching English via cell phone in India, two Berkeley researchers will advance the development of digital media for learning | |
| 27 Feb | - | Strong community and social networks may do an ailing heart good, new study finds : High levels of ‘social capital’ in communities linked to reduced occurrence of acute coronary syndrome | |
| 27 Feb | - | New business center to bolster Haas School’s Asia offerings | |
| 27 Feb | - | Faculty Nightstand: For fun, lit prof Vicky Kahn turns to modern-day fiction | |
| 27 Feb | - | It's My Job | |
| 27 Feb | - | News Briefs | |
| 20 Feb | - | Top UC administrator coming to Berkeley as associate chancellor: UC Associate President Linda Williams joins the chancellor’s office, as John Cummins retires after 36 years on campus | |
| 20 Feb | - | New endowed chair is named to honor longtime campus supporter Robert Haas: Funding for Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion comes from Levi Strauss & Co., supported by the recent Hewlett Challenge grant | |
| 20 Feb | - | Ang Lee’s films to be focus of ‘On the Same Page’ program | |
| 20 Feb | - | National Academy of Engineering elects three from Berkeley | |
| 19 Feb | - | 2008 UC summer programs for children | |
| 13 Feb | - | What do we mean when we talk of love?: Just in time for Valentine’s Day, psychologist Dacher Keltner demystifies the biological manifestations of everyone’s favorite heartfelt emotion | |
| 13 Feb | - | General says Abu Ghraib scandal will resonate ‘for years to come’: Even in retirement, Antonio Taguba, whose report on inmate abuse shed new light on the U.S. ‘war on terror,’ remains the good soldier and reluctant critic | |
| 13 Feb | - | So an EECS prof and an undergrad walk into a computer lab...: Jester 4.0 may seem like a lot of laughs, but to Ken Goldberg and Tavi Nathanson, jokes about dumb blondes and Chuck Norris are merely the setup for adventures in higher math | |
| 13 Feb | - | Campus to conduct first online conference on aging: Seniors and scholars alike can participate in real time, or view archived presentations later. It’s all in preparation for the upcoming ‘silver tsunami’ of aging Boomers | |
| 13 Feb | - | National Academy of Sciences hosting art-practice prof Katherine Sherwood’s ‘Golgi’s Door’ show | |
| 13 Feb | - | Somewhere on I-880, between Hayward and Fremont, they drove into the future (then came right back) | |
| 13 Feb | - | Tracking gliding behavior in the ‘flying’ lemur: The airborne critter maneuvers through forests and around obstacles, propelling itself on wind currents caught by its membranous skin | |
| 13 Feb | - | News Briefs | |
| 06 Feb | - | Berkeley joins the nation in turning the spotlight on climate change: Last week the campus participated with other colleges and universities across America to ‘Focus the Nation’ on global warming | |
| 06 Feb | - | Statistician’s new method will test election outcomes: ‘Auditing for confidence’ on the basis of observed discrepancies | |
| 06 Feb | - | Who goes here? The undergrad lowdown: Latest survey data offers a 360-degree view of the Berkeley student body — its social and study habits, political leanings, and academic inclinations | |
| 06 Feb | - | Rewriting history and poking fun at the powers that be: BAM/PFA opens a 25-year retrospective of Enrique Chagoya’s audacious artwork | |
| 06 Feb | - | Anna’s hummingbird chirps with its tail: What sets the tone for hummer romance? A high climb, a steep dive — and just the right vibration | |
| 06 Feb | - | Engineers create new adhesive that mimics a gecko’s super-sticky toe hairs: It’s directional, relieving the lizards — and, perhaps someday, even robots — of the need to apply pressure to adhere to a surface | |
| 06 Feb | - | Freshman publishes memoir of his life with ADHD: Two years after starting to write, his hope remains to humanize a misunderstood disorder | |
| 06 Feb | - | It's My Job | |
| 06 Feb | - | Laurels : Celebrating Berkeley’s blue ribbons, gold stars, and honorable mentions | |
| 06 Feb | - | Obituary: Jorge Liderman | |
| 06 Feb | - | News Briefs | |
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January | |||
| 30 Jan | - | Chancellor Birgeneau on keeping public universities affordable: ‘We have to start now’ | |
| 30 Jan | - | ‘Green chemistry’ promoted as a sustainable approach to managing the manufacture and use of toxics: Chemical exposures cost California an estimated $2.6 billion, says new policy report endorsed by 127 UC faculty | |
| 30 Jan | - | When environmental footprints land on the neighbors’ doorsteps: The wealth of (some) nations is often built on the damage they impose on others | |
| 30 Jan | - | Campus issues statement of environmental commitment: An expression of our role as university citizens | |
| 30 Jan | - | New director in place to coordinate campus sustainability efforts: A résumé that includes natural-resource management and climate-change study | |
| 30 Jan | - | First endowed faculty chair in new media funded by craigslist: Thanks to matching funds from the Hewlett Foundation’s 2007 challenge grant, income from more than $3 million will be available to support the chairholder’s work | |
| 30 Jan | - | Mellon Foundation grant will help the humanities compete: Endowment establishes new fund to aid Berkeley’s recruitment of top graduate students | |
| 30 Jan | - | For Obama, the act’s the thing: Theater prof Shannon Steen peers into the candidate’s political persona and finds Horatio Alger, Abe Lincoln, and Stanislavski looking back at her | |
| 30 Jan | - | Coming attractions for spring 2008: Global warming, rebellion, and redemption top a lineup of events at Berkeley this sememter that will challenge the mind, entertain the senses, and depart from the conventional | |
| 30 Jan | - | News Briefs | |
| 23 Jan | - | Albert Bowker, fifth chancellor at Berkeley, dies at 88: During the 1970s, he ‘paved the way’ for the campus of today | |
| 23 Jan | - | Campus to remove diseased Monterey pines from Gill Tract in Albany: Infection, pests, and high winds have all taken their toll on the aging stand of trees, posing danger to the driving and pedestrian public | |
| 23 Jan | - | Frances Allen: A pioneer in high-performance computing: The explorer, adventurer, and renowned computer scientist delivers a Regents’ Lecture for EECS on Jan. 31 | |
| 23 Jan | - | News Briefs | |
| 16 Jan | - | Governor’s budget proposes cuts to address deficit: UC’s compact with the state will still be honored — but 10 percent must then come off the top of the new total, Schwarzenegger says | |
| 16 Jan | - | New life for the New Deal: Revered, reviled, and largely forgotten, the public-works legacy of the FDR era is all around us — and the Living New Deal Project is drawing the map | |
| 16 Jan | - | Historian Thomas Laqueur receives Mellon Foundation award for distinguished achievement: ‘Depth and liveliness’ characterize the noted scholar’s enquiries into religion, death, and sex | |
| 16 Jan | - | Fiction readers get their moment in the campus spotlight: Story Hour in the Library series debuts next week | |
| 16 Jan | - | Neil Henry to lead journalism school in 2008: He’ll serve until a permanent head is appointed | |
| 16 Jan | - | It's My Job | |
| 16 Jan | - | Discover magazine cites Berkeley research among 2007’s top stories | |
| 16 Jan | - | Ant parasite turns its host into something resembling a ripe, red berry: The better to facilitate parasite population growth through consumption of avian droppings, researchers conclude | |
| 16 Jan | - | Stem-cell grant to Berkeley bioengineer will spur research on rejuvenating muscle: Irina Conboy looks ahead to a time when, like now, many of us are falling apart . . . but we’ll be able to do something about it | |
| 16 Jan | - | Research Roundup | |
| 16 Jan | - | Obituary: Donald Kaplan | |
| 16 Jan | - | Obituary: Andrew Imbrie | |
| 16 Jan | - | Obituary: VèVè Clark | |
| 16 Jan | - | Obituary: Paul Plouffe | |
| 16 Jan | - | News Briefs | |