Year: 1999

December 1999

• History of UC Berkeley's architecture and design explored in new campus exhibits (12/22/99)
• Not even Berkeley kids eat sprouts, says new UC Berkeley report on middle school nutrition (12/16/99)
• Fast spacecraft discovers invisible aurora (12/14/99)
• Woodrow Borah, UC Berkeley Latin American history expert, dies at age 86 (12/14/99)
• Star power update: 1998 starburst more powerful than 3,000 years of sunshine (12/14/99)
• Donations of new books sought by mayors, UC Berkeley chancellor, to help build kids' reading skills (12/10/99)
• UC Berkeley spotlight increasingly focuses on international human rights (12/09/99)
• UC Berkeley, LBNL scientists snap first 3-D pictures of the "heart" of the transcription machine (12/09/99)
• UC Berkeley archaeologist rebuilds a Greek temple in Ancient Nemea and puts a new face on Zeus (12/08/99)
• Latest UC Berkeley living wage study, released today (Dec. 6), addresses Port of Oakland workers (12/06/99)
• UC Berkeley professor traces birth of infotainment to founding father Benjamin Franklin (12/02/99)
• Richard M. Eakin, a zoology professor who enthralled UC Berkeley students with costumed lectures, is dead at 89 (12/01/99)
• Former UC Berkeley mathematics chair John L. Kelley, an activist and loyalty oath dissenter in the 1950s, dies at age 82 (12/01/99)
• Rare genetic disease linked to telomerase defect, revealing potential roles of enzyme in preventing tissue aging and cancer (12/01/99)

November 1999

• UC Berkeley journalism students pick their heroes from the 1940s to 1980s as part of national project (11/30/99)
• NASA moves into era of talking pictures, thanks to microphone built at UC Berkeley and mounted on Mars Polar Lander (11/30/99)
• New world record, set by UC Berkeley's tiny new transistor, breaks barrier for what can fit on computer chip (11/22/99)
• UC Berkeley archaeologist fights to preserve a unique Bahamian slave plantation from developer's plow (11/22/99)
• New UC Berkeley curator making her mark with Bancroft Library's Western Americana collection (11/19/99)
• Radiation expert warns of danger from overuse of medical X-rays, claiming they're responsible for many cancer and heart disease deaths (11/16/99)
• Student learning and new research are beneficiaries of $3 million Ford Motor Co. Fund gift to UC Berkeley (11/16/99)
• Astronomers see shadow of planet cross distant star, proving that extrasolar planets are real (11/12/99)
• UC Berkeley law student argued winning position that led to court ruling strengthening Miranda rights (11/12/99)
• Newly discovered bright supernova is testament to value of UC Berkeley's robotic telescope and the only fully automated supernova search (11/11/99)
• Cal's original Oski recalls mascot's glory days in new Bancroft Library oral history (11/10/99)
• Outspoken UC Berkeley biochemist and nutritionist Thomas H. Jukes has died at age 93 (11/10/99)
• UC Berkeley journalism school wins renewed funding for environmental reporting center (11/08/99)
• Three Strikes law can't take credit for state's drop in crime, finds UC Berkeley law professor (11/08/99)
• Nov. 11 forum will explore community service graduation requirement proposed by governor (11/05/99)
• An "organs watch" to track global traffic in human organs opens Mon., Nov. 8, at UC Berkeley (11/03/99)
• UC Berkeley scientists eagerly visit Iran, which for 20 years had banned U.S. scholars (11/03/99)
• UC Berkeley awards commercial contract for CHIPS space mission to SpaceDev of Poway, Calif. (11/03/99)
• Chinese scientists honor Chang-Lin Tien, beloved scholar and former chancellor at UC Berkeley, with named asteroid (11/02/99)
• UC Berkeley Center Hosting Human Rights Session Nov. 4, Focusing On Student Experience (11/02/99)
• Considerable land remains for Sonoma vineyards to expand, according to UC Berkeley forecast (11/02/99)
• Siemens "whiz kid" competition at UC Berkeley offers opportunity for 200 local high school students to see what scientific research is all about (11/01/99)
• In new report, UC Berkeley business professor Ken Rosen gives San Francisco economy an A+ (11/01/99)

October 1999

• Recently discovered Indonesian coelacanth represents new species that diverged from other coelacanths 4-6 million years ago (10/28/99)
• UC Berkeley program lends expertise to set up Seattle career academies (10/25/99)
• UC Berkeley's Robert Scalapino, a world expert on Asian studies, to be honored this week (10/25/99)
• UC Berkeley scientists report first indication that a genetic mutation can protect against acute leukemia (10/25/99)
• Quantum Corp. endows physics fellowship at UC Berkeley in honor of late CTO and Cal alumnus Kenneth Lee (10/21/99)
• Berkeley researchers to examine how culture adds up in early math development in U.S., Japan, China (10/20/99)
• $1.5 million raised for UC Berkeley through alumni gifts at class reunions (10/20/99)
• UC Berkeley's School of Optometry opens new clinic to help nearly blind people use computers (10/19/99)
• Every seat's taken in new technology course set up by students at Cal's business school (10/15/99)
• Reconstructed movie showing animal view of the world proves scientist have a good understanding of how the brain processes visual information (10/15/99)
• UC Berkeley physics professor wins $100,000 award from the Christopher Columbus Fellowhip Foundation (10/14/99)
• Despite a debilitating stroke that paralyzed her right hand, UC Berkeley professor produces award-winning art (10/13/99)
• UC Berkeley launches a half-a-billion dollar research initiative linking biological and physical sciences and engineering to spur biomedical advances (10/06/99)
• First complete study of San Francisco's proposed living wage released today by UC Berkeley researchers (10/06/99)
• Hindered from attending college in their native Vietnam, four siblings finish their education at UC Berkeley (10/05/99)
• Fifty years after Cold War suspicions spawned a university loyalty oath, UC Berkeley hosts gathering on topic (10/04/99)

September 1999

• UC Berkeley researchers report experimental evidence for diamond shohttp:11-01-1999.htmlwers on Neptune and Uranus (09/30/1999)
• French and American archaeologists find definitive evidence that Neanderthals ate other Neanderthals some 100,000 years ago (09/30/99)
• For new parents, a little help goes a long way; 48 hours of group support can avert divorce, say UC Berkeley psychologists (09/29/99)
• New teaching manual helps UC Berkeley professors better understand students with disabilities (09/28/99)
• UC Berkeley teams with Siemens Foundation to find "whiz kids" through nationwide high school science and technology competition
• UC Regents honor former UC Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien with the super-rank of University Professor (09/17/99)
• Professional political consultants give Cal students a lesson in real life political campaigning (09/16/99)
• New Haas Pavilion at UC Berkeley captures intimacy of old Harmon in vibrant 12,000-seat arena (09/16/99)
• State trees devasted by Australian pest might be saved by wasp, UC Berkeley researcher discovers (09/13/99)
• Hot new immune therapy from UC Berkeley is being readied for clinical trials against prostate cancer and melanoma (09/08/99)
• Cal law students gain legal victory for teenager denied education in Dominican Republic (09/03/99)
• UC Berkeley pest control scientist Ray F. Smith has died at the age of 80 (09/03/99)
• UC Berkeley study sheds light on where PhDs end up a decade after they get their degree (09/02/99)
• National Science Foundation awards UC Berkeley one of 31 knowledge-centered awards focusing on IT for the 21st century (09/1/99)

August 1999

• Large Santa Ana wildfires have been a regular occurrance along the southern California coast for more than 560 years, UC Berkeley study finds (08/31/99)
• Grandparents raising grandchildren are struggling with their own health problems, new study finds (08/31/99)
• Kevin E. Consey is new director of UC Berkeley's Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (08/26/99)
• George Breslauer, scholar of Soviet and Russian leaders, is appointed social science dean at UC Berkeley (08/25/99)
• Popular, student-taught class at UC Berkeley, created by Greek leaders, aims to curb alcohol abuse on campus (08/24/99)
• UC Berkeley's annual Lunch Poems series kicks off Sept. 2, promises intellectual and artistic electricity (08/23/99)
• Former UC Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien joins national panels on science and education policy (08/23/99)
• UC Berkeley law school dean, Herma Hill Kay, announces plans to step down in 2000 (08/17/99)
• More than a million people world-wide have signed up with UC Berkeley's SETI@home to search for intelligent life in the universe
• Fall semester at UC Berkeley kicks off Monday, Aug. 16, with Welcome Week (08/13/99)
• Organic chemist Clayton H. Heathcock named Dean of College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley (08/12/99)
• Richard Jennings, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of law and advocate for investor protection, dies at 91 (08/11/99)
• In the new science of children's minds, babies are smarter than adults, according to book co-authored by UC Berkeley psychologist (08/10/99)
• UC Berkeley biologist to spend 10 days under the ocean to study light, creatures in Florida's coral reefs (8/9/99)
• UC Berkeley classes on food, murder and San Francisco detectives help summer students explore America's cultural geographies (8/09/99)
• New "Tree of Life" for green plants reveals evolutionary history of land plants and much more (8/04/99)
• Revised Blake Garden plan topic of public meeting scheduled for Aug. 9 (8/02/99)
• UC Berkeley computer scientists attack Y2K bug with new program to find millennium glitches in C applications

July 1999

• UC Berkeley is part of new Adaptive Optics Center at UC Santa Cruz that aims to improve telescopes, human eyesight (7/30/99)
• Industrial world must increase investment in energy technology R&D to deal with global warming, argues UC Berkeley expert (7/29/99)
• Recent UC Berkeley alums help youngsters transition from foster care to adulthood (7/29/99)
• UC Berkeley astronomer salvages "stellar" science from disabled NASA satellite (7/27/99)
• UC Berkeley reports banner year for fundraising: gifts total $221.7 million (7/22/99)
• UC Berkeley helping students though annual housing crunch with more beds, rental tips (7/20/99)
• A UC Berkeley geographer's seminal 1956 study of the Amazon reprinted by Brazilian museum (7/15/99)
• UC Berkeley, LBNL mathematician awarded major international prize in applied mathematics (07/15/99)
• UC Berkeley to launch new plan for responding to death in campus community (07/14/99)
• World authority on Polynesia is appointed director of UC Berkeley's Hearst Museum of Anthropology (07/14/99)
• Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Carol T. Christ announces plans to return to teaching full time (07/12/99)
• Earl "Fatha" Hines piano auction to benefit UC Berkeley's Young Musicians Program (07/09/99)
• Missing T. rex fossil returned to UC Berkeley by FBI agents following overseas search (07/02/99)
• New collecting prize brings to light student holdings - pure poetry to UC Berkeley's historical library (07/01/99)

June 1999

• San Francisco's cornerstone juvenile justice reform program barely alive, says UC Berkeley report (06/28/99)
• Three UC Berkeley experts awarded prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowships (06/23/99)
• The 1999 NASDAQ International Biotech-Infotech Summit at UC Berkeley, June 27 to June 29 (06/23/99)
• New UC Berkeley health care research center established today with $2 million from state attorney general's office (06/23/99)
• No summer vacation at Cal, where classrooms are filled with students of all ages (06/23/99)
• UC Berkeley program teaches rural students value of education, diverse cultures, at six-week academic boot camp (06/23/99)
• Gutsy senior citizen initiates discounted classes for the elderly at UC Berkeley Summer Sessions (06/23/99)
• UC Berkeley researchers find first evidence in mammals that sex hormones can change the size of a brain structure (06/21/99)
• "Robofly" solves mystery of insect flight, according to new report by UC Berkeley biologists (6/17/99)
• Meat-eating was essential for human evolution, says UC Berkeley anthropologist specializing in diet (06/14/99)
• Using biology to make Star Wars come true: a joint project between Concord school and UC Berkeley (06/14/99)
• Pioneering UC Berkeley educator, Ann L. Brown, dies from sudden illness at age 56 (06/10/99)
• Janet Yellen, Clinton's chief economist, announces plans to return to teaching at UC Berkeley (06/09/99)
• Fredric Mosher, UC Berkeley emeritus professor and book historian, dies at age 85 (06/09/99)
• Statement concerning Berkeley City Council item (06/08/99)
• Jesús Mena, director of UC Berkeley media relations, heads to new post at Harvard (06/08/99)
• UC Berkeley faculty recommend 12 favorite books for incoming freshman to read this summer (06/04/99)
• Bursting bubbles in the galactic disk appear to be source of hot gas permeating the Milky Way galaxy and its halo (06/02/99)
• UC Berkeley astronomers find a burst cosmic bubble surrounding our own sun (06/02/99)
• Microsoft keyboard beats the competition, cuts hand pain 50 percent, new UC study shows (06/01/99)
• Actress Rita Moreno to speak at event honoring students receiving full UC Berkeley scholarships (06/01/99)

May 1999

• Thousands of high school students will study real stars, thanks to a $2.5 million NSF grant to UC Berkeley educators (05/27/99)
• UC Berkeley releases data on students who have confirmed plans to enroll as fall freshmen (05/25/99)
• UC Berkeley hosts conference June 2-4 celebrating 100 years of western U.S. geology (05/24/99)
• New Pakistan studies professorship to be established at UC Berkeley (05/20/99)
• Internet congestion caused by flat-rate pricing and waste, UC Berkeley researchers find (05/20/99)
• A visit to the University of California, Berkeley, by Miguel Angel Rodriguez, the president of Costa Rica (05/19/99)
• Need a laugh? Try a UC Berkeley website that recommends jokes tailored to your sense of humor (05/18/99)
• Monkey diet is richer in vitamins and minerals than human diet, UC Berkeley anthropologist discovers (05/18/99)
• UC Berkeley ready to negotiate with graduate student instructors (05/13/99)
• UC Berkeley's SETI@home project turns planet into giant listening post for signals from outer space (5/13/99)
• UC Berkeley entrepreneurs impress venture capitalists at business plan competition (05/12/99)
• UC Berkeley's new E-conomy Project to host digital economy conference in Washington, D.C. (05/12/99)
• Highlights of UC Berkeley's 1999 Commencement Speakers (05/10/99)
• One million dollar gift to UC Berkeley will help boost teachers in urban schools (05/10/99)
• UC Berkeley chancellor affirms continued support for Ethnic Studies (05/08/99)
• Another reason to eat your tofu: UC Berkeley researchers discover soybean protein has anti-cancer properties (05/07/99)
• With A+ grades, great ambition, senior Vikram Rao is named 1999 University Medalist at UC Berkeley (05/06/99)
• Mother and son to graduate May 21 from UC Berkeley, both will be first in family to receive college diploma (05/06/99)
• Terry McMillan headlines impressive list of speakers for UC Berkeley's 1999 commencement ceremonies (05/06/99)
• Ritalin may cause children to smoke early, abuse stimulants as adults, UC Berkeley professor says (05/05/99)
• UC Berkeley's anthropology museum gets money to preserve endangered collections, including 9,000 California Indian baskets (05/04/99)
• Meredith Morgan, beloved UC Berkeley dean and professor, dies at 87 after 67 years of service to the School of Optometry (05/03/99)
• Surprising new information on Pancho Villa comes to light in obscure Wells Fargo files at UC Berkeley (05/03//99)

April 1999

• Robert Tjian has been awarded the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Prize by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation (4/30/99).
• Six UC Berkeley faculty elected to prestigious National Academy of Sciences (04/29/99)
• UC Berkeley biochemist Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, pioneer in viral research, has died at the age of 88 (04/27/99)
• Earliest evidence of animal butchery, new species of human ancestor, found in Ethiopia's Afar desert (04/22/99)
• New evidence links mass extinction with massive eruptions that split Pangea supercontinent and created the Atlantic 200 million years ago (04/22/99)
• A keynote speech by California Governor Gray Davis at a University of California, Berkeley, ceremony marking the 131st anniversary of Charter Day (04/22/99)
• Four UC Berkeley professors to receive 1999 Distinguished Teaching Awards on April 22 (04/21/99)
• High school students' SAT scores improve thanks to two free programs run by UC Berkeley volunteers (04/21/99)
• UC Berkeley chemistry professor receives highest award from American Chemical Society
• Astronomers find nearby Sun-like star with three planets, the first solar "system" outside our own (04/15/99).
• Fastest known X-ray emissions from a collapsed star support existence of exotic photon bubbles in an X-ray pulsar (04/14/99)
• Boom in e-commerce prompts four new spring classes at UC Berkeley's business school (04/13/99)
• Don Savage, expert on mammalian evolution and former chair of paleontology at UC Berkeley, has died at 81 (04/08/99)
• Two battling blue stars create unique spiral dust cloud around distant star, UC Berkeley astronomers report (04/07/99)
• Students visit the elderly, the elderly go to class, in unique UC Berkeley course on aging
  (04/07/99)
• UC Berkeley's dean of social welfare buries liberal notions of the welfare state; proposes a new paradigm (04/7/99)
• New UC Berkeley admission figures show modest gain in underrepresented minority students for fall 1999 (04/2/99)

March 1999

• Acclaimed "Shakespeare in Love" doesn't accurately depict Elizabethan era, says UC Berkeley professor (03/30/99)
• UC Berkeley Broadens Effort to Attract Underrepresented Minority Students to Berkeley (03/23/99)
• Nerve growth protein with Jekyll-and-Hyde character found by UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco teams (03/19/99).
• Update on Lunar Prospector from Planetary Science Conference in Houston (03/16/99).
• UC Berkeley team challenges cosmologists to analyze simulation of cosmic microwave background - and win a case of champagne (03/16/99)
• Lecture on Corporate Responsibility at Haas School of Business (03/15/99)
• Graduation Rates at UC Berkeley Hit All-Time High, Underrepresented Minorities Post Record Gains (03/11/99)
• Memorial celebration for the late Glenn T. Seaborg scheduled for Mar. 27 at UC Berkeley (03/10/99)
• The Bible is folklore, which doesn't mean it isn't true, says UC Berkeley folklorist
  (03/09/99)
• Clearest view yet of the heart of nearby Andromeda galaxy yields clues to its double core (03/03/99)
• UC Berkeley public health school gets $4.5 million to study every child with leukemia in 35 California counties (03/2/99)

February 1999

• David Daube, famous Biblical law scholar and professor emeritus of law at UC Berkeley, has died
• Revered chemist Glenn T. Seaborg - UC Berkeley professor, presidential advisor and Nobel Laureate - has died at 86 (2/26/99)
• Biophysicist Alan Bearden, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, died unexpectedly last week at age 67 (2/26/99)
• U.S. Dept. of Education visits Bay Area to see Berkeley Pledge program, a national model, in action (02/25/99)
• Globally recognized legal scholar and advisor Stefan Riesenfeld, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, died Wednesday at age 90 (02/20/99)
• Campus garden to remain at UC Berkeley's Oxford tract, administrators announced today (2/19/99).
• Albert Pickerell, professor emeritus of journalism at UC Berkeley, died Saturday, Feb. 13, at age 86 (02/18/99)
• Earliest signs of maize agriculture in North American found by UC Berkeley, New Mexico archaeologists (02/17/99)
• UC Berkeley graduate students poke hole in highly touted theory that Neanderthals could talk (02/16/99)
• One-of-a-kind, antique piano belonging to late jazz great Earl Hines given to UC Berkeley music outreach program (02/16/99)
• Management fads aren't a waste of time, UC Berkeley professor says in new book (02/16/99)
• "Shakespeare in Love" Oscar nominee Tom Stoppard to explain his use of math in theater at upcoming UC Berkeley visit (02/11/99)
• UC Berkeley expert on sexuality co-authors new book to be released on Valentine's Day (Feb. 14) (02/11/99)
• Three young UC Berkeley scientists were honored Wednesday by President Clinton (02/10/99).
• Hooked: 12 million days spent fishing in the Delta, new UC Berkeley report finds (02/09/99)
• UC Berkeley mathematicians feed the minds of young local math whizzes (02/10/99)
• STATEMENT FROM UC BERKELEY CHANCELLOR ROBERT BERDAHL REGARDING THE DEATH OF STUDENT MALCOLM RUSSELL HART (02/08/99)
• UC Berkeley establishes SETI chair - the first ever academic position devoted to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (02/08/99)
• UC Berkeley, SETI Institute join forces to build the world's largest telescope devoted principally to the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (02/08/99)
• Iranian Culture Studies fund set up at UC Berkeley with bequest valued at $2.5 million (02/08/99)
• Geotechnical engineer John Lysmer, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, died suddenly last week at age 67 (02/05/99)
• UC Berkeley mathematician Maxwell A. Rosenlicht has died at the age of 74 (02/03/99)
• New culprit in iron anemia unmasked, UC researchers announce today (Feb. 1) in Nature Genetics (02/01/99)
• Jim Lemmon, longtime UC Berkeley administrator and well-known crew coach, dies at age 79 (02/01/99)

January 1999

• Professor Donald McQuade named new UC Berkeley vice chancellor; will oversee fund raising, public affairs (01/28/99)
• Modern custody disputes favor father's rights over child's welfare, according to UC Berkeley study (01/28/99)
• New Berkeley Wireless Research Center aims to put a radio in every office computer and home appliance (01/27/99)
• UC Berkeley geographer draws parallels between 19th century silver mining towns and today's "golden triangle" in Silicon Valley (1/22/99)
• Year-old international human rights law clinic at UC Berkeley is helping refugee clients win asylum (1/22/99)
• UC Berkeley to step up recruitment in effort to increase underrepresented minority applicant numbers (1/20/99)
• An increasing number of Californians, especially the working poor, have no health insurance coverage, according to a new report from UC Berkeley and UCLA (1/15/99)
• UC Berkeley launches new security campaign for neighborhood south of campus (1/13/99)
• Type Ia supernovae provide direct evidence for an expanding universe (1/7/99).
• New infrared interferometer techniques yield unprecedented detail of dust envelopes around stars both young and old (1/6/99)
• Faint dark halo around nearby galaxy contains "weird" population of dwarf stars, says international team of astronomers (1/6/99)
• Chemistry Professor William H. Miller selected as first recipient of distinguished professorship in honor of the late Kenneth S. Pitzer (1/5/99)
• Microphone built at UC Berkeley now on its way to the Martian surface (1/5/999).
• HIV doesn't just kill T cells, it prevents the production of new, healthy cells, study shows (1/4/99).