Year: 1998

December 1998

• Harmer Davis, founder of UC's Institute of Transportation Studies, has died at 93 (12/29/98).
• Former UC Berkeley professor, expert in child motor development.dies at age 95 (12/23/98)
• UC Berkeley professor receives new award, NSF grant for education research (12/22/98)
• UC Berkeley students break sorting record, showing the advantage of off-the-shelf hardware and clusters of inexpensive computers (12/17/987)
• Unauthorized immigrant workers up 34 percent in California agriculture, according to new UC Berkeley report (12/16/98)
• Former chair of UC Berkeley's Physical Education Department dies at 71 (12/11/98)
• UC Berkeley is part of new partnership between the semiconductor industry, the federal government and U.S. universities to create national research network on core chip issues (12/11/98)
• American youth not as violent as suspected, says UC Berkeley professor, a leading legal authority on juvenile justice (12/9/98)
• UC Berkeley biochemist Bruce Ames to receive National Medal of Science, the White House announced today (12/9/98)
• Clues to European Dark Ages found in Nemea, Greece, by UC Berkeley professor (12/9/98)
• Third sound - surface waves on an ocean of superfluid - has been found in superfluid helium-3, say UC Berkeley researchers (12/9/98)
• Local military base closures leave civilian workers with re-employment difficulties, says new UC Berkeley report (12/8/98)
• Award-winning UC Berkeley study proves that work-related back aches are not "all in your head" (12/1/98)

November 1998

• UC Berkeley physicist David L. Judd, an expert in fusion reactor theory, has died at the age of 75 (11/30/98)
• NSF, Lucent Technologies honor researchers who encourage businesses to "go green" (11/25/98)
• Searching for ET from home - UC Berkeley launches project to draw public into the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (11/25/98)
• NIH grants $1 million to UC Berkeley's College of Chemistry for renovation of biomedical facilities, laboratories (11/24/98)
• Not a "morning-after" pill, but UC researchers recommend drugs to prevent AIDS after some exposures (11/24/98)
• Foundation donates $5 million to UC Berkeley to promote understanding of Arab, Islamic worlds (11/23/98)
• Media Advisory regarding conference, "Alternatives for the Americas" at UC Berkeley (11/23/98)
• Californians pay huge bill to keep their yards, landscaping beautiful, according to UC Berkeley report (11/23/98)
• Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis commits $25 million to support biotechnology research at UC Berkeley (11/23/98)
• UC Berkeley/Novartis Agreement (11/23/98)
• UC Berkeley/Novartis Q and A (11/23/98)
• UC Berkeley/Novartis Quotes (11/23/98)
• Massachusetts high school students discover new asteroid through Berkeley's Hands On Universe program (11/19/98)
• New housing recovery policies needed after major urban disasters, says UC Berkeley professor in new book (11/18/98)
• UC Berkeley sets a national precedent; campus hires a brain doctor as a professor of psychology (11/17/98)
• UC Berkeley hosts world debut of passenger bus powered by new natural gas technology; Tue., Nov. 17 (11/17/98)
• Media Advisory - New natural-gas powered bus premieres at UC Berkeley (11/13/98)
• Media Advisory - Nov. 23 panel discussion on Clinton impeachment inquiry (11/12/98)
• NSF funds marine bioproducts center at Univ. of Hawaii in collaboration with UC Berkeley (11/10/98)
• Doctor in the house? New UC Berkeley health handbook is the next best thing (11/05/98)
• UC Berkeley Extension appoints new dean; Garry D. Brewer will lead continuing education arm of UC Berkeley (11/05/98)
• Fossil parrot from the Cretaceous pushes back the origin of modern land birds, UC Berkeley scientist says (11/04/98)

October 1998

• What do children think they need? New $3 million UC Berkeley Center on Working Families to ask the question (10/30/98)
• Effect of Halloween on Mexico's Nov. 2 "Day of the Dead" explored by UC Berkeley anthropology professor (10/29/98)
• Noted tree expert and UC Berkeley professor of forestry Robert Cockrell is dead at the age of 89 (10/22/98)
• Rare medieval manuscripts to be examined Oct. 23 via the Internet in UC Berkeley distance learning class (10/22/98)
• Class reunions bring in $2 million in gifts from UC Berkeley alumni (10/22/98)
• Chlamydia genome sequenced for first time, revealing unusual biology, says UC Berkeley researcher 10/22/98)
• Extensive UC Berkeley report documents Latino demographics and voting behavior in California (10/22/98)
• Just in time for Halloween, UC Berkeley folklorist releases casebook about vampire lore (10/21/98)
• Albert Johnson, UC Berkeley senior lecturer and internationally known film critic, dies at age 73 (10/21/98)
• UC Berkeley receives $42 million grant from FEMA to make four of its older buildings earthquake safe (10/20/98)
• University leaders meet with director of FEMA to discuss ways to prevent major losses from disasters (10/20/98)
• Jenny Franchot, renowned UC Berkeley English Department associate professor, dies at 45 (10/16/98)
• UC Berkeley appoints Gerald Lowell of UC San Diego as the campus's new University Librarian (10/15/98)
• New vice chancellor is named at UC Berkeley - job includes managing massive seismic retrofitting program (10/14/98)
• UC Berkeley nutrition study makes surprising finds on the eating habits of mothers (10/12/98)
• AT&T funds new internet research center at UC Berkeley (10/08/98)
• UC Berkeley & Planetary Society launch updated search for extraterrestrial intelligence (10/05/98)

September 1998

• MEDIA ADVISORY re: Federal funding and university research and the technology produced (09/29/98)
• UC Berkeley's new, rare collection on U.S. conservative movement can be viewed Monday, Sept. 28 (09/28/98)
• Federal government awards UC Berkeley professor $1.7 million to study breast cancer survivors in the Bay Area (09/27/98)
• UC Berkeley biologist finds second population of primitive coelacanths among islands off the coast of Sulawesi (09/23/98)
• Media Advisory: Homecoming, Reunion & Parents Weekend (09/23/98)
• Biochemist and former Science editor Daniel Koshland to receive Special Lasker Award, Sept. 25 (09/21/98)
• Haas School of Business celebrates centennial year with "Birthday Bash" Sat., Sept. 26. (09/21/98)
• UC Berkeley Professor Ron Takaki to discuss new book about multicultural contributions to American society (09/16/98)
• Fred Orin Harris, a founder of UC Berkeley's drama department, dies at age 97 (09/16/98)
• UC Berkeley prostate cancer study shows African American men hit much harder by the disease (09/16/98)
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute gives UC Berkeley program $1.6 million to improve biology education (09/15/98)
• UC Berkeley releases fall figures on graduate enrollment - slight decline in underrepresented minorities (09/15/98)
• Adapting to American society causes mental illness to double among Mexican immigrants, finds UC Berkeley study (09/14/98)
• Common picture of head-butting in dome-headed dinosaurs is wrong, says UC Berkeley paleontologist (09/14/98)
• Our love affair with the chair is subject of new book by UC Berkeley architecture professor (09/10/98)
• UC Berkeley diversity coalition receives Presidential Award for mentoring from White House today (Sept. 10) (09/10/98)
• At age 90, UC Berkeley professor begins his 46th fall semester teaching classes at campus's law school (09/09/98)
• UC economists find the total health care bill for smoking comes to $72.7 billion per year or 11.8 percent of all medical payments (09/09/98)
• EMBARGOED -- Lunar Prospector measurements show how meteor impacts have shaped the moon's magnetic field (09/03/98)

August 1998

• Statement from Robert M. Berdahl, Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley (08/26/98)
• Sept. 3 kick-off of Lunch Poems series features Ishmael Reed, Robert Hass and others reading their favorite poems (08/27/98)
• UC Berkeley psychologists present new theory to explain strange illusions of Santa Cruz's "Mystery Spot" (08/26/98)
• Nobel Laureate Glenn Seaborg honored as one of the "Top 75 Distinguished Contributors to the Chemical Enterprise" (08/24/98)
• Fall semester at UC Berkeley begins Monday, Aug. 24, with drop in fees, new deans, more freshman seminars (08/21/98)
• Professional sports haven't delivered promised benefits in seven California cities, says new UC Berkeley report (08/20/98)
• UC Berkeley professor wins highest honor in mathematics, the prestigious Fields Medal (08/19/98)
• UC Berkeley gets funds to study a key law of chips (08/19/98)
• University of California, Berkeley's law school announces major increase in incoming minority students over last year's entering class (08/17/98.
• Vice President Gore announces new children's environmental health center to be headed by UC Berkeley professor
• Record number of alumni and friends make contributions to UC Berkeley in 12 months (08/06/98)
• Unconventional scholar of the classics is appointed Dean of Humanities at UC Berkeley (08/06/98)

July 1998

• In a surprise finding, UC Berkeley scientists report that electrical activity is crucial even during early brain development (07/31/98)
• UC Berkeley experts call for immediate hold on proposed legislation to regulate information commerce (07/20/98)
• UC Berkeley program brings computers and the Internet to Oakland neighborhoods (07/15/98)
• Pathogen attacking sea-fan coral in the West Indies is identified by UC Berkeley researchers (07/08/98)
• University of Maryland's Michael Nacht named new dean of UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy )07/07/98)
• July 9 event to launch $68 million restoration of historic Hearst Memorial Mining Building on UC Berkeley campus (07/07/98)
• From jewelry and microscopes to vision care: 75 years transforms optometry at UC Berkeley (07/01/98)
• Latin American education reformer and UC Berkeley alumna wins Haas International Award (07/01/98)

June 1998

• UC Berkeley releases Police Review Board report on April 1997 Sproul Hall confrontation between UC police and demonstrators (6/30/98)
• NASA awards UC Berkeley $72 million contract to build and operate HESSI satellite to study solar flares (6/30/98)
• California prison factories generate $150 million in sales each year, new UC Berkeley report finds (06/25/98_
• UC Berkeley alumni pitch in to save popular campus program for rural younsters (06/16/98)
• UC Berkeley astronomers find comets around two nearby stars, indicating the likelihood of planets forming (06/11/98)
• Americans and Chinese have different ways of discovering truth, finds UC Berkeley expert on Chinese psychology (06/09/98)
• UC Berkeley's SERENDIP project presents analysis of six years' worth of data from sensitive SETI search (06/08/98)
• University Relations Vice Chancellor C.D. "Dan" Mote has been named President of the University of Maryland (06/02/98)
• Writer Ishmael Reed, lecturer in UC Berkeley's English Department, wins MacArthur "genius" fellowship (06/01/98)

May 1998

• When it comes to speed bumps, passions run deep and planning is paramont, says new UC Berkeley report (05/29/98)
• A gene that creates joints in skeletons has been identified by UC Berkeley embryologist (05/29/98)
• Teachers raided, libraries lost: UC Berkeley students examine effects of class-size reduction in Bay Area (05/27/98)
• Rise at UC Berkeley in percentage of admitted applicants intending to register; underrepresented minorities are 10.5 percent of total fall '98 pool (05/20/98)
• UC Berkeley study establishes that extinct ichthyosaurs are related more closely to other living reptiles than are turtles (05/20/98)
• Laura D'Andrea Tyson named new dean of UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business (05/15/98)
• Edward Penhoet, former president and CEO of Chiron Corp., is named new dean of UC Berkeley's School of Public Health (05/15/98)
• Minority groups in Oakland face home loan discrimination, says new UC Berkeley report (05/14/98)
• Metals expert Earl Parker, National Medal of Science recipient and retired UC Berkeley faculty member, is dead at 85 (05/13/98)
• Beer symposium at UC Berkeley to trace beer consumption and brewing from antiquity to present (05/12/98)
• Enrichment is key to children's intelligence and creativity, says new book coauthored by UC Berkeley brain researcher Marian Diamond (05/11/98)
• Garff Wilson, UC Berkeley impresario and drama professor, dies at 89 (05/07/98)
• UC Berkeley's top senior, 20-year-old Mekhail Anwar, graduates May 22 with his life already mapped out (05/06/98)
• Steve Wozniak, Jesse Jackson, Leon Panetta, Willie Brown and others to address UC Berkeley grads (05/06/98)
• Boalt Hall appoints outreach and recruitment director, releases datashowing increase in minority admissions (05/05/98)

April 1998

• UC Berkeley to honor Mario Savio, Free Speech Movement with library gift, café (04/29/98)
• Wong appointed to NSF (04/28/98)
• Disappointed boys left out of "Take Our Daughters to Work" day get their own Sons' day at UC Berkeley (04/21/98)
• UC Berkeley's eighth chancellor,Robert M. Berdahl, to be inaugurated this Friday in campus ceremony (04/21/98)
• Nobel Laureate Glenn T. Seaborg honored with endowed chair; chemistry Professor Alexander Pines named chairholder (04/20/98)
• Feeding on lizard blood strips ticks of dangerous Lyme disease bacterium (04/17/98)
• On the anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, online art project is a poetic reminder (04/16/98)
• UC Berkeley honors five distinguished teachers in April 28 ceremony (04/15/98)
• UC Berkeley enlistee No. 3,000 to leave for Peace Corps - campus to celebrate milestone on Tuesday (04/13/98)
• UC Berkeley scientists find key to fly's maneuverability and the speed with which they elude fly swatters (04/09/98)
• Jonas Barish, UC Berkeley authority on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, dies at 76 (04/08/98)

March 1998

• UC Berkeley announces record number of fall 1998 applicants, but sees drop in percentage of admitted African Americans, Chicanos, Latinos and American Indians(03/31/98)
• Competing signals from the eyes during fetal development are critical to preparing brain for vision, UC Berkeley researchers report (03/26/98)
• New data on Russian jobs and wages reveal dramatic economic decline, according to UC Berkeley sociologist (03/25/98)
• New species discovered in Bay Area, thanks to preservation of San Bruno Mountain refuge (03/25/98)
• Public health pioneer William Griffiths, a UC Berkeley professor emeritus, dies at age 85 (03/24/98)
• Agreement on management of UC Berkeley campus bookstore to directly benefit students (03/19/98)
• Pumps and mixers so small they fit on a credit card could be the drug delivery system of the future, UC Berkeley engineers say (03/13/98)
• Memorial service Mar. 18 for Neville Cook, an expert on rock mechanics and UC Berkeley
• professor of materials science who died Mar. 3 (03/13/98)
• Discovery pushes back boundaries of known universe (03/12/98)
• Tiny tunable laser lights way to high-speed data networks perhaps 100 times faster than today's fastest data communication systems, UC Berkeley researchers say (03/11/98)
• Impact of cigarette smoking on Medicaid costs is $322 billion in 25 years, says University of California analysis (03/09/98)
• Annual industrial liaison conference at UC Berkeley March 11 & 12 highlights new drug delivery systems, cancer therapies (03/09/98)

February 1998

• Three UC Berkeley professors elected to National Academy of Engineering, bringing total number of members on campus to 76 (02/25/98)
• First-ever reunion of women graduates from UC Berkeley's 104 year-old law school to be held Feb. 27 - March 1 (02/24/98)
• UC Berkeley chemistry professor to receive Wolf Prize at May 10 ceremony in Jerusalem, Israel (02/24/98)
• Rare, endangered documents at UC Berkeley's anthropology museum to be saved through digitization project (02/23/98)
• Total crime continues to drop on the UC Berkeley campus, according to 1997 statistics provided to the FBI (02/23/98)
• UC researchers invite volunteers to take a different kind of vacation (02/23/98)
• New collection of original documents and histories unveils disability rights movement (02/23/98)
• Chalk up another one for broccoli! Chemical in vegetable shown to halt growth of breast cancer cells (02/20/98)
• U.S. Secretary of Education joins UC Berkeley Chancellor in lauding striking gains by students enrolled in Berkeley Pledge (02/13/98)
• U.S. families of all kinds need help; new social policies must be created, say 10 UC Berkeley family scholars (02/12/98)
• New AIDS data explains T-cell puzzle and suggests new treatments, according to UC researchers (02/05/98)
• Pine bark extract is a potent antioxidant, and may help boost the effects of vitamin C and other antioxidants, UC Berkeley scientists report (02/05/98)

January 1998

• New Gene Discoveries Mark Rapid Advances In Understanding Nerve Circuits, Raise Hope for Eventual Spinal Cord Repair (01/28/98)
• Bacteria can cause serious eye infection if held on the eye, raising concern about long-wear contacts, according to UC Berkeley research (01/27/98)
• Renowned South African Judge Albie Sachs Lectures at UC Berkeley Feb. 2-5 (01/27/98)
• Plants outdo engineers, strip pollution from Chevron wastewater and protect San Francisco Bay (01/26/98)
• No health insurance, poor health insurance leaves California public with significant health consequences, says new UC report (01/22/98)
• Must Yellowstone bison die to protect cattle from dread disease? UC Berkeley and Iowa State researchers offer solutions (01/16/98)
• Do college freshmen read only textbooks? UC Berkeley survey finds students do read for fun, from Amy Tan to Fyodor Dostoyevsky (01/14/98)
• Original gold nugget that launched California's gold rush 150 years ago is on display for children Jan. 15 (01/13/98)
• India's caste system gets fresh, Freudian analysis in new book by UC Berkeley folklorist Alan Dundes (01/13/98)
• Memorial service Jan. 25 for the late Kenneth Pitzer, former chemistry dean at UC Berkeley and past president of Rice and Stanford Universities (01/08/98)
• Lunar Prospector mission, set for launch today (Jan. 6), could answer puzzles about the moon's magnetic field (01/06/98)