Year: 1996

December 1996

• UC Berkeley Professor Janet Yellen named new chair of Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers (12/20/96)
• A belief in protective illusions is good for children, according to UC Berkeley psychologist (12/16/96)
• Honda, UC Berkeley building automated car for national demonstration next August (12/16/96)
• Treasures found inside ancient reptile mummies now under restoration at UC Berkeley (12/2/96)

November 1996

• EUV Explorer satellite discovers huge, unexplained new gas component in clusters of galaxies (11/18/96)
• Four new juniors at UC Berkeley are siblings chasing the same dream after leaving Vietnam to seek a new life (11/13/96)
• Earth's inner core not a monolithic iron crystal, say UC Berkeley seismologists (11/13/96)
• California's injured workers are hampered by lack of basic help in filing claims, receiving benefits (11/13/96)
• Laura D'Andrea Tyson to return to UC Berkeley in January after four years in Clinton Administration (11/12/96)
• A dangerous rise in drug-resistant bacterial infections found in major hospital by UC Berkeley scientist (11/12/96)
• Fuzzy logic inventor Lotfi Zadeh, UC Berkeley professor, to receive 10 million yen Okawa Prize(11/4/96)
• UC Berkeley Can Help Employers With Holiday Help Needs Reach Talented Student Workers (11/4/96)
• Retired UC Berkeley professor of mechanical engineering Yasundo Takahashi has died at the age of 84 (11/1/96)

October 1996

• High profile criminal cases not for them; technology's where the money is, say UC Berkeley law students (10/31/96)
• Berkeley -- Patricia St. Lawrence, associate professor emerita of genetics at the University of California at Berkeley, died Oct. 23 of lung cancer at her home in Orinda, Calif. She was 74. (10/31/96)
• UC Berkeley, U.S.G.S. scientists discover microscopic invader of San Francisco Bay, the first known marine microbe invader of U.S. waters (10/28/96)
• Federal Aviation Administration to inaugurate new center for air safety and air management research at UC Berkeley on Oct. 31 (10/25/96)
• HALLOWEEN MEDIA ADVISORY (10/28/96)
• New system for tracking welfare millions is daunting but doable, UC Berkeley researchers tell National Academy of Sciences (10/23/96)
• New offices and classrooms, bigger library, more computers are just part of extensive improvements at Cal's Boalt Hall (10/25/96)
• Berkeley -- Automated supernova searches to begin soon with dedication of new robotic telescope at Lick Observatory October 25 (10/22/96)
• Berkeley -- National Science Foundation funds $10 million, six-year drilling project in Hawaii to be run by UC Berkeley, Caltech and the University of Hawaii (10/16/96)
• Berkeley -- UC Berkeley's Interactive University gives K-12 students a helping hand via the Internet's vast resources (10/15/96)
• Berkeley -- Irving Fatt, specialist in contact lens physiology and professor emeritus of optometry at UC Berkeley, has died at the age of 76 (10/11/96)
• Berkeley -- Levi Strauss President Tom Tusher To Receive Business Leadership Award from UC Berkeley's Haas school (10/16/96)
• Berkeley -- UC BERKELEY STATEMENT ON REPORT ISSUED BY THE CENTER FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY, "RACIAL PREFERENCES AT UC BERKELEY," REGARDING UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS (10/10/96)
• Berkeley -- UC Berkeley hosts international conference to forge joint strategy to preserve the world's languages, cultures and species (10/9/96)
• Berkeley -- Professor emeritus Carl G. Rosberg, expert in African politics, dies at age 73 (10/8/96)
• Berkeley -- UC Berkeley Chancellor Tien gives one-year update on Berkeley Pledge, kicks off new K-12 outreach project (10/1/96)
• Berkeley -- Damage claims skyrocket from Northridge earthquake, finds new UC Berkeley report (10/1/96)

September 1996

• Berkeley -- The days of the big hospital are over, according to UC Berkeley study showing a 30 percent drop in patient days in California (9/26/96)
• Berkeley -- NASA makes ground-breaking agreement to turn over satellite flight operations to UC Berkeley (9/26/96)
• Clorox gift expands UC Berkeley outreach to East Bay high schools (9/25/96)
• UC Berkeley aims to raise $1.1 billion by 2001 in historic New Century Campaign (9/19/96)
• Berkeley -- UC Berkeley acquires lost records that reveal torture, exile as Inquisition dispensed justice in the Americas (9/12/96)
• Berkeley -- Cal/EPA lauds UC Berkeley for its innovative pest control methods: fewer chemicals, more imagination (9/6/96)
• Berkeley -- Folklore spawned by office technology is explored in new book by UC Berkeley professor (9/6/96)
• Berkeley -- A UC Berkeley professor who first brought health care to mothers and infants dies at the age of 96 (9/5/96)

August 1996

• Berkeley -- For the first time a realistic, 3-D model of the Earth's interior predicts size and shape of tectonic plates (8/28/96)
• Berkeley -- Will students "rush" Sigma Nu? Historic UC Berkeley fraternity reopens as first substance-free frat on campus (8/27/96)
• Berkeley -- Poet Laureate Robert Hass woos lunch time crowd to new monthly poetry reading at UC Berkeley (8/23/96)
• Berkeley -- Please pass the Triceratops! Munched dinosaur shows Tyrannosaurus rex had strong teeth and a powerful bite (8/21/96)
• Berkeley -- Is there life after earning a PhD? UC Berkeley class teaches doctoral candidates how to get a good job (8/20/96)
• Berkeley -- Carol and Ned Spieker donate $5 million for the Haas Pavilion and the Cal Athletics Campaign (8/13/96)
• Fees remain stable as UC Berkeley Class of 2000 arrives for start of fall semester on Aug. 26 (8/13/96)
• Launch date set for FAST Explorer, a UC Berkeley satellite that will study the Northern Lights (8/12/96)
• Signs to be posted at UC Berkeley alerting campus communuity to mountain lion habitats (8/5/96)
• 1 Minute Berkeleyan promises campus news in 60 seconds flat (8/8/96)

July 1996

• Anatomy students honor their cadaver in a unique anatomy course at UC Berkeley (7/29/96)
• With cooperation lacking, UC Berkeley proceeds with eviction of insolvent bookstore (7/23/96)
• Yosemite rock fall shook the Sierra Nevadas like a 2.15 earthquake (7/19/96)
• UC Berkeley speech writer and journalist Lynn Kidder died of breast cancer on Tuesday (7/16)
• Intel chairman awarded UC Berkeley's highest honor at Silicon Valley tribute (7/17/96)
• UC Berkeley epidemiologist wins Olympic medal for studies showing exercise protects against heart disease (7/17/96)
• Chang-Lin Tien announces plans for final year as UC Berkeley chancellor (7/9/96)
• Big jump in number of freshmen selecting UC Berkeley for enrollment this fall reflected in all ethnicities (7/2/96)
• UC Berkeley alumni in Taiwan pledge $15 million toward construction of new East Asian Studies Library (7/2/96)
• The politics of conservatives and liberals follow opposite ideals of the "good" father, says UC Berkeley linguist in new book (7/2/96)

June 1996

• UC Berkeley moves to stem losses of student-run bookstore and provide needed services (6/24/96)
• Student-built rooftop radio observatory now centerpiece of innovative radio astronomy course at UC Berkeley (6/11/96)
• Two Berkeley professors win National Medal of Science (6/10/96)
• Santa Ana River study shows artificial wetlands can help purify river water, says Northwestern and UC Berkeley team (6/6/96)
• UC Berkeley students analyze trash, discover valuable artifacts from the oldest fraternity west of the Mississippi (6/6/96)
• Black patients get higher drug doses for mental illness in county emergency rooms -- for no apparent reason (6/6/96)
• Distinguished journalist Orville Schell appointed new dean of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism (6/6/96)

May 1996

• Long lost Scarlatti opera found at UC Berkeley to be performed in June (5/21/96)
• Retiring UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Karl Pister awarded UC Berkeley's highest honor, the Berkeley Medal (5/20/96)
• Denying education to undocumented immigrants doesn't pay off in tax dollars,according to new UC Berkeley report (5/20/96)
• $3.5 million from Osher Foundation endows Incentive Awards Program at UCB(5/08/96)
• Collaboration In Eye Care Services With UCSF (05/07/96)
• UCSF and UC Berkeley to collaborate on eye care services, education and research(5/02/96)
• UC Berkeley commencement highlights include Ted Turner address and awarding of University Medal (5/01/96)
• Benjamin Franklin's dark side is exposed in new book by UC Berkeley historian (5/01/96)

April 1996

• IBM donates large data storage system to UC Berkeley's digital library project (04/23/96)
• MEDIA ADVISORY -- Vision Science Meeting at UC Berkeley (04/23/96)
• UC Berkeley honors five distinguished teachers in April 29 ceremony (04/23/96)
• Reverse exodus of black Americans from North to rural South is explored in new book by UC Berkeley professor (04/22/96)
• MEMO TO MEDIA-Unabomber correction (04/17/96)
• Scientists at three UC campuses discover carbon stored in soils will make global warming worse (04/15/96)
• MEDIA ADVISORY -- Beat Poets at UC Berkeley (04/11/96)
• MEDIA ADVISORY -- UC Berkeley's Open House April 13 (04/11/96)
• Oldest evidence yet of village life in central Honduras found by UC Berkeley and Cornell archaeology team (04/10/96)
• MEDIA ADIVISORY- conference on "Commerce in Organs: Culture, Politics, and Bioethics in the Global Market" (04/10/96)
• UC Berkeley releases summary of special inquiries into the status of student applications (04/10/96)
• UC Berkeley mathematics alumnus uses 1995 California lottery winnings to endow annual campus professorship (04/9/96)
• UC Berkeley welcomes everyone to its annual Cal Day Open House on Saturday, April 13 (04/8/96)
• Adolfo Aguilar Zinser coming to Berkeley April 12 (04/5/96)
• MEDIA ADVISORY -- Robert McNamara to speak at UC Berkeley April 13. (04/5/96)
• Short release on Kaczynski (04/8/96)
• NOTE TO MEDIA-memo on death of Donald Terner, died in air crash which killed Ron Brown (04/5/96)
• MEDIA ADVISORY-press briefing, April 4, 1996 at 2pm (04/4/96)
• Kaczynski employed by UCB, confirmation (04/3/96)
• Ancient cities brought to life with controversial new technology as UC Berkeley professor probes past (04/3/96)
• Growing class inequality and stagnant wages are by design not accident, say six UC Berkeley sociologists in a combined analysis (04/2/96)
• Olympic torch begins its journey to Atlanta today in Greece, stops for ceremony at UC Berkeley excavation site (04/1/96)

March 1996

• Winners and losers emerge in the health field during wide-open competition in California (03/28/96)
• Cal Day Highlights (03/26/96)
• UC Berkeley welcomes everyone to its annual Cal Day Open House on Saturday, April 13 (03/26/96)
• U.S. Office for Civil Rights finds UC Berkeley in full compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (03/20/96)
• Antibodies stimulate tumor rejection and confer subsequent immunity, UC Berkeley scientists report (03/19/96)
• Wayne S. Boutell, professor emeritus of accounting at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, dies at age 76 (03/13/96)
• High-level nuclear waste at government's proposed Yucca Mt. nuclear waste repository unlikely to explode, UC Berkeley team concludes (03/12/96)
• Memorial Service for Frank C. Newman (03/12/96)
• UC Berkeley film and literary scholar William Nestrick, chair of comparative literature, has died at the age of 55 (03/11/96)
• Charles W. Tobias, UC Berkeley professor and father of electrochemical engineering, has died at the age of 75 (03/11/96)
• UC Berkeley welcomes everyone to its annual Cal Day open house on Saturday, April 13 (03/11/96)
• Cal Day Calendar Item (03/11/96)
• PSA for Cal Day 1996 (03/11/96)
• MEDIA ADVISORY -- UC Berkeley Wires Berkeley High School for NetDay96 (03/7/96)
• Annual engineering conference at UC Berkeley March 13 & 14; highlights include Yucca Mountain, Channel Tunnel (03/7/96)
• New UC Berkeley report ranks American cities by commute time and comes up with some surprises (03/4/96)

February 1996

• Recommendations urge UC Berkeley to maintain diversity through K-12 partnerships, expanded recruitment (02/29/96)
• MEDIA ADVISORY -- Berkeley Pledge Update (02/28/96)
• UC Berkeley's Hans Bremermann, professor emeritus and pioneer in mathematical biology, has died at 69 (02/27/96)
• Stepparents need new rights and duties to solve family needs, says UC Berkeley scholar of family law (02/26/96)
• Frank Newman, UC Berkeley law professor and former state Supreme Court justice, dies at 78 (02/21/96)
• A relatively unknown antioxidant, alpha-lipoic acid, may be more potent than vitamins C and E (02/21/96)
• OBITUARY-John A. Clausen, prof. emeritus of Sociology, died Feb. 15 at age 81. (02/16/96)
• Martin Luther King III to Speak at UC Berkeley Friday, Feb. 16 (02/12/96)
• Telling young girls about contraception early has substantial impact on their behavior, finds UC Berkeley study (02/9/96)
• UC Berkeley SETI team completes four-year search for extraterrestrial signals and gears up for new, expanded search (02/7/96)
• UC Berkeley welcomes everyone to its annual Cal Day open house on Saturday, April 13 (02/5/96)
• Ishi apparently wasn't the last Yahi, according to new evidence from UC Berkeley research archaeologist (02/5/96)
• STATEMENT FROM CHANCELLOR CHANG-LIN TIEN ON THE DEATH OF EUGENE E. TREFETHEN, JR. (02/1/96)

January 1996

• Trade liberalization can improve consumer and environmental protection, new book by UC Berkeley professor says (01/30/96)
• UC's University Research Expeditions celebrates 20 years; offers 24 new expeditions in '96 (01/30/96)
• Woodrow Wilson program for minority students receives $1 million at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Public Policy (01/26/96)
• ATTN: SCIENCE & MEDICAL WRITERS, EDITORS & PRODUCERS (01/24/96)
• Three new deans at UC Berkeley bring vision and innovation to programs in their fields (01/23/96)
• Up to two-thirds of UC Berkeley students volunteer in community service according to new campus survey (01/23/96)
• Intel chairman gives $15 million for ground-breaking "new materials" work under way at UC Berkeley(01/18/96)
• Discovery of two new planets -- the second and third within the last three months -- proves they aren't rare in our galaxy(01/17/96)
• New book by UC Berkeley Professor David Aaker is owner's manual for brand managers(01/10/96)
• Plants mirror people when looking for a free lunch, but they may not get the bargain they thought(01/9/96)
• Joint Press Statement from the University of California and Marcy L. Wang (01/8/96)
• UCB Nobelist Glenn Seaborg to Visit San Francisco Schools Jan 8. (01/4/96)
• UC Berkeley's vegetarian choices in the campus's dinning halls win a "VAMMY" for responsive innovation (01/4/96)