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Year: 2000
December 2000
27 Dec	-	UC Berkeley retrofits take "green" approach to concrete foundations
20 Dec	-	Among managed care organizations, Kaiser HMO model is the best, UC Berkeley researcher finds
20 Dec	-	Waddling is a good way to make up for short legs - at least for penguins, say UC Berkeley researchers
18 Dec	-	British honor two UC Berkeley students with Marshall scholarships
15 Dec	-	Mars' patchwork magnetic field acts as array of umbrellas to protect planet's atmosphere, according to new mapping study by Mars Global Surveyor
15 Dec	-	UC Berkeley sociologist Robert Bellah chosen by White House to receive National Humanities Medal
14 Dec	-	Child care training and retention programs get state Prop. 10 funds through PACE office at UC Berkeley
13 Dec	-	Americans are geographically more rooted today than in the past, says UC Berkeley sociologist
13 Dec	-	Scientists complete sequencing of first plant genome
07 Dec	-	UC Berkeley scientists bring promising research to new California bioscience institute
07 Dec	-	Gov. Davis singles out UC Berkeley information technology project to be fourth California Institute for Science and Innovation, with funding to be sought next year
07 Dec	-	MEDIA ADVISORY : Press briefing about the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)
06 Dec	-	Votomatic's inventor discusses the machine's development, strengths and potential weaknesses in just-released UC Berkeley oral history interview
06 Dec	-	MEDIA ADVISORY : The inauguration of a Balinese gamelan- Semar Pagulingan Saih Pitu - at the University of California, Berkeley's music department
06 Dec	-	Professor Christina Maslach named new vice provost for undergraduate education at UC Berkeley
05 Dec	-	Special UC Berkeley convocation for December graduates to be held Friday, Norman Mineta to speak
04 Dec	-	UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library adds archival collection of Beat poet Philip Whalen's art, poems and notes
04 Dec	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Lecture by U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers about "Keeping the Economy Growing"
01 Dec	-	Seismic safety upgrade planned for UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
November 2000
30 Nov	-	Final enrollment figures for fall 2000 undergraduate and graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley
29 Nov	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: "Children's Social and Emotional Development: Essential Building Blocks for Learning"
28 Nov	-	UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library teams up with Wells Fargo Bank to produce California history tapes | (Spanish version)
28 Nov	-	James Deetz, pioneering archaeologist and former director of UC Berkeley's anthropology museum, dies at 70
28 Nov	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Dining hall "fast"
20 Nov	-	UC Berkeley MBAs launch second annual social venture competition
20 Nov	-	Nation's most powerful brain scanner devoted solely to research inaugurates new era of brain research at UC Berkeley
16 Nov	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Unveiling of UC Berkeley's new $5 million Brain Imaging Center
16 Nov	-	Smog aggravates asthma in children born prematurely or of low birthweight, UC Berkeley researchers find
16 Nov	-	MEDIA ADVISORY:A real "sixth sense" in humans? UC Berkeley students explore the possibility
15 Nov	-	New Master's of Financial Engineering degree to be offered at UC Berkeley
15 Nov	-	UC Berkeley public policy professor keeps close watch for signs of "emotional intelligence" by candidates in presidential race countdown
14 Nov	-	UC Berkeley students now can wish on their own star, just in time for Saturday's Big Game
14 Nov	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Beyond Rage: The Search for an American Identity
13 Nov	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: "The Law, the Constitution and the Gore-Bush Presidential Contest"
13 Nov	-	It's good news from the frontline on welfare reform, according to UC Berkeley-led study of 9 counties
09 Nov	-	UC Berkeley physicist John Reynolds, known for his work on isotope dating of rocks and meteorites, has died at 77
09 Nov	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: A symposium on the latest developments in biomechanics, nanotechnology, tissue engineering and related bioengineering field
08 Nov	-	Women in Leadership Conference at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business explores career choices
08 Nov	-	Siemens "whiz kid" competition at UC Berkeley offers opportunity for 200 local high school students to see what scientific research is all about
08 Nov	-	One of nation's top business plan competitions launches today at UC Berkeley's business school
08 Nov	-	Contract bridge enhances the immune system, according to a preliminary study by researchers at UC Berkeley
07 Nov	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Open house for students and neighbors to learn about the Underhill Area Projects
06 Nov	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: "Electricity Summit: Deregulation or Re-regulation?"
02 Nov	-	Listeria bacteria yield clues to workings of other deadly intracellular pathogens, UC Berkeley scientists report
01 Nov	-	Presidential race may be hot, but not local television news coverage, says UC Berkeley political science expert
01 Nov	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Test on the nation's largest shake table at the University of California, Berkeley, will simulate a 7.5 magnitude quake
October 2000
31 Oct	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: "Thinking Rights, Engaging Communities" to examine connections between the humanities and human rights
30 Oct	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: 11th Annual Haas School Conference on Financial Reporting
26 Oct	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: UC Berkeley Halloween activities, story tips and experts
26 Oct	-	Herbert York, national security leader and former UCSD chancellor, honored with Clark Kerr leadership award
26 Oct	-	MEDIA ADVISORY:Intersections of Civil Rights and Social Movements: Putting Disability in its Place
25 Oct	-	Election 2000 Web site at UC Berkeley demonstrates power of new Internet technology for mining the "deep Web"
25 Oct	-	UC Berkeley demographer finds undetected tuberculosis may have been real killer in 1918 flu epidemic
25 Oct	-	Near infrared images of Neptune taken by Keck II show best detail yet of planet's icy atmosphere
24 Oct	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Impact of Technology and Globalization on the Future of Our Nation: A Look at Driving Forces
18 Oct	-	UC Berkeley professors measure exploding world production of new information
18 Oct	-	Interplanetary Network detects gigantic gamma-ray burst that breaks all distance records
17 Oct	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Regulating on the Technological Edge
17 Oct	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Building Better Health Systems: Leadership Challenges for the 21st Century
16 Oct	-	MEDIA ADVISORY:Mario Savio Memorial Lecture: "Forward and Backward: Women, Globalization and the New Class Structure"
11 Oct	-	UC Berkeley economist Daniel McFadden receives this year's Nobel Prize in economics
09 Oct	-	UC Berkeley law students to hold offbeat auction on Friday, Oct. 13, for minority student fellowships
09 Oct	-	Innovative "town and gown" community partnerships honored by UC Berkeley Chancellor and Mrs. Robert M. Berdahl
04 Oct	-	Huge Calder sculpture outside UC Berkeley Art Museum to get conservation makeover
03 Oct	-	California botanist Robert Ornduff, former director of UC Botanical Garden and UC Berkeley professor, dies at 68
September 2000
28 Sep	-	UC Berkeley demographer finds first evidence that maximum age at death in humans is rising
27 Sep	-	UC Berkeley's annual Homecoming, Reunion and Family Weekend to be held October 13-15
26 Sep	-	Car shoppers save by buying on the Internet says UC Berkeley/Yale study
25 Sep	-	Foundation funds new technology and science reporting professorship at UC Berkeley's journalism school
25 Sep	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Maximizing Shareholder Value: Lessons from the Natural World
19 Sep	-	Beware of plant supplements called flavonoids; they could make you sick, warn UC Berkeley public health experts
18 Sep	-	UC Berkeley alumnus creates $1million fund to renovate Wurster Hall and study issues affecting gays and lesbians in architecture
14 Sep	-	New fossil find pushes age of terrestrial fungi back 60 million years, to the same era when green plants pulled themselves onto land
14 Sep	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: "Who Owns the Body?"
14 Sep	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Leading Edge Technology Conference
13 Sep	-	Statement on hospitalization of Dr. Chang-Lin Tien
13 Sep	-	UC Berkeley professor emeritus and noted economic historian Carlo Cipolla dies in Italy following long illness
13 Sep	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Conference on Housing and Urban Policy hosted by UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business
13 Sep	-	UC Berkeley computer scientists receive nearly $9.5 million to tackle some of today's major computer and Internet problems
07 Sep	-	Proposed historic pact between UC Berkeley, Cuban libraries encourages research, share materials
05 Sep	-	Historic UC Berkeley study finds profound impact on adult lives of children 25 years after their parents' divorce
August 2000
30 Aug	-	NSF, NIH give $5.2 million to UC Berkeley to train scientists for the post-genome world
30 Aug	-	Largest corporate gift ever to UC Berkeley's College of Chemistry helps launch new center for organic chemistry
30 Aug	-	UC Berkeley's Lunch Poems series kicks off Sept. 7 with readings by faculty, staff members
29 Aug	-	Future workplaces will function best with Stone Age features, UC Berkeley professors suggest
29 Aug	-	UC Berkeley, backed by local fire agencies, to begin effort to reduce wildland fire risk in hills above the campus
24 Aug	-	UC Berkeley's journalism school opening experimental center to safeguard the documentary
24 Aug	-	UC Berkeley teaching high-tech era students how to give their money away, run non-profit organizations
24 Aug	-	Class of 2004 begins arriving for new school year at UC Berkeley, where most classes start Aug. 28
21 Aug	-	STATEMENT FROM CHANCELLOR ROBERT M. BERDAHL
17 Aug	-	State-of-the-art measuring techniques show northern Hayward fault slips freely, meaning less chance of a major quake
16 Aug	-	W. James Hill, former assistant dean under several administrations at UC Berkeley's law school, dies at 82
15 Aug	-	Leslie Lipson, political scientist and UC Berkeley professor for more than 30 years, dies at 87
11 Aug	-	Nobel Laureate John C. Harsanyi, UC Berkeley economist and game theory pioneer, dies at 80
09 Aug	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Money and Influence in Politics
08 Aug	-	SETI@home teams with The Planetary Society and Project Voyager to continue search for intelligent signals from space
07 Aug	-	Astronomers report discovery of three new extrasolar planets, plus hints of many multi-planet systems
July 2000
31 Jul	-	UC Berkeley reports greatest number of gifts given in one year from alumni and friends
27 Jul	-	UC Berkeley physicists create tiny bearings and springs out of carbon nanotubes for use in microscopic machines
26 Jul	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Wine barrel shake test will be conducted on the nation's largest earthquake simulator at the University of California, Berkeley
25 Jul	-	New UC Berkeley program to prepare principals for California's urban schools gets major boost with $7.5 million gift
25 Jul	-	Faulty practices threaten success of California condor program, says new report
21 Jul	-	UC Berkeley professor takes D.C. post, is latest in long line of campus economists advising Clinton Administration
20 Jul	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: "Go" workshop at MSRI
13 Jul	-	Paul H. Mussen, UC Berkeley pioneer in developmental psychology, dies at 78
13 Jul	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: "Footprints from the Past"
12 Jul	-	Political Reform Act of 1974 needs reform, says bipartisan commission assisted by UC Berkeley scholars
11 Jul	-	UC Berkeley offers $500 rebate to students who graduate at end of Summer Sessions
11 Jul	-	Surprising X-ray flare on brown dwarf is first evidence of magnetic activity on these failed stars, astronomers report
June 2000
30 Jun	-	Professor A. Richard Newton appointed new dean of UC Berkeley's College of Engineering
30 Jun	-	Experimental solid state physicist and former dean Walter Knight has died at the age of 80
28 Jun	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: The 13th International Congress on Photobiology
27 Jun	-	Barbara Christian, UC Berkeley professor and pioneer of contemporary American literary feminism, dies at age 56
27 Jun	-	Two distinguished professors join UC Berkeley's senior management team as vice provosts
22 Jun	-	UC Berkeley excavations at San Francisco's historic Presidio turn up three centuries of artifacts, plus the oldest colonial deposits yet
16 Jun	-	Environmental study finds no significant impact in adding permanent lights to Memorial Stadium
14 Jun	-	UC Berkeley economist Matthew Rabin wins MacArthur "genius" fellowship for work on human behavior
12 Jun	-	American power elites have lost exclusive rights to frame 'the story," says UC Berkeley linguist
08 Jun	-	UC Berkeley's 2000 Summer Reading List introduces incoming freshmen to great writers on campus
08 Jun	-	MEDIA ADVISORY - media tour of UC Berkeley's historic Hearst Mining Building, a 1907 Beaux Arts treasure being retrofitted, rehabilitated and restored
08 Jun	-	Garrett Eckbo, UC Berkeley professor known for inspiring the modern landscape movement, dies at 89
07 Jun	-	MEDIA ADVISORY - "Breath of Life" workshop devoted to resurrecting extinct Native American languages
07 Jun	-	It's not glue, suction or static electricity that keep geckos from falling off the ceiling, says new study from UC Berkeley, Lewis & Clark, Stanford
06 Jun	-	UC Berkeley music professor's research leads her into the arena for 17th-century equestrian ballet
06 Jun	-	UC Berkeley discovery to make possible June 7 attempt to cure California's sick eucalyptus trees
05 Jun	-	UC Berkeley's robotic telescope discovers record number of supernovas in nearby galaxies
01 Jun	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Computer camp for UCB professors
01 Jun	-	Prominent figure in real estate finance who helped found UC Berkeley's real estate program dies in Mexico
01 Jun	-	ATTENTION: LEGAL AFFAIRS REPORTERS, NEWS DESKS: Berkeley Professors available to speak on court-ordered grandparents' rights
May 2000
26 May	-	SETI@home, UC Berkeley's search for extraterrestrial life, celebrates first anniversary, is named finalist in Computerworld Smithsonian Awards
25 May	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: "Seeing the Difference/Seeing Differently"
24 May	-	Stock analysts' forecasts usually fall short of realized revenues, says new UC Berkeley study
23 May	-	UC Berkeley names two distinguished women professors to key leadership posts
22 May	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Quake 2000
18 May	-	New UC Berkeley admissions director is campus alumna who rose through the ranks
18 May	-	Preeminent statistician Lucien Le Cam, who helped establish the mathematical foundations of modern statistics, dies at 75
17 May	-	Upcoming Venture Capital Institute at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business to share Silicon Valley-style secrets of success
17 May	-	Los Angeles high school students team with community groups in new UC Berkeley outreach program
17 May	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Future of social work and social services for children
11 May	-	UC Berkeley faculty receive big honors: five elected to National Academy of Sciences; three appointed HHMI investigators
10 May	-	UC Berkeley wildlife specialist tries mission impossible: to help ranchers in Kenya make peace between predators and livestock
09 May	-	MAXIMA, a balloon-borne experiment directed by UC Berkeley, finds evidence for a flat universe, inflation and a cosmological constant
08 May	-	Major new work on the Pacific Islands by UC Berkeley archaeologist buries the enduring myth of humans in paradise
05 May	-	A diverse ecosystem offers little or no protection against invading species, says a new UC Berkeley study
05 May	-	Madeleine Albright heads a distinguished list of commencement speakers as UC Berkeley's Class of 2000 graduates
03 May	-	Whitaker Foundation grants $15 million to bioengineering
03 May	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Landmark series of earthquake experiments
02 May	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Robert Reich to speak at UC Berkeley
02 May	-	UC Berkeley's top graduating senior is driven by thirst for knowledge, good books and a commitment to others
02 May	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Madeleine Albright to speak at UC Berkeley
01 May	-	Smokers much more likely to quit if workplace smoke-free, UC Berkeley study finds
01 May	-	Even a brief closure at UC Berkeley after a major earthquake would mean economic loss for the region
April 2000
28 Apr	-	Integrative approach to studying penguins, cockroaches and little hairy noses makes comparative biomechanics group at UC Berkeley the nation's best
27 Apr	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: "The Economic Benefits of a Disaster Resistant University," May 1
25 Apr	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: "Take Your Child to Work Day," April 27
24 Apr	-	UC Berkeley to announce nation's first high-tech law clinic to provide public conscience for Silicon Valley, voice for consumers
21 Apr	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Press conference to announce the creation of a first-of-its-kind law clinic
20 Apr	-	Three UC Berkeley professors will receive Distinguished Teaching Award on April 25
20 Apr	-	UC Berkeley sees big drop in 1999 in the number of violent crimes on campus
19 Apr	-	First prototype of revolutionary SETI telescope unveiled at 40th anniversary of the world's first scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence
18 Apr	-	Virgin Earth, where are you? Earth Day finds UC Berkeley professor searching for what's left
17 Apr	-	Sherwood L. Washburn, father of modern primatology and UC Berkeley professor of anthropology emeritus, dies at age 88
14 Apr	-	Striking at peak moment, UC Berkeley overhauls its Web site, goes after top students with new recruiting tool
13 Apr	-	Astronomers detect distant quasar near outer limits of our universe
12 Apr	-	Moving magma under Mammoth Lakes area may be splitting rocks deep underground, UC Berkeley seismologist reports
12 Apr	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Cal Day, UC Berkeley's annual open house, is April 15th
11 Apr	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: "Sites along the Nile: Rescuing Ancient Egypt," a new Egyptian exhibit at UC Berkeley
10 Apr	-	Cal Day 2000 on April 15 is expected to draw thousands of visitors to UC Berkeley
10 Apr	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: California State Treasurer Philip Angelides to speak on upcoming unprecedented growth in California
07 Apr	-	UC Berkeley moves forward on plans for more student housing and a seismically secure dining complex
07 Apr	-	UC Berkeley student receives Truman Scholarship, is chosen from among 599 candidates
06 Apr	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: "e-Campaigning: Ethics and the Internet," a conference on political campaigning in the digital age
06 Apr	-	Former UC Berkeley dean of agriculture Earle Gorton Linsley has died at the age of 89
06 Apr	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: "China, Japan and the U.S. at the Millennium," a forum on the three nation's relations, media influences and foreign policy
05 Apr	-	UC Berkeley to dedicate renovated Goldman Field on Saturday at invitational track meet
05 Apr	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Press briefing on UC Berkeley's plans to build new student housing
05 Apr	-	UC Berkeley biologist disputes current dogma that genetic mutation is the cause of cancer
05 Apr	-	Anthropologist William Shack, prominent African scholar and graduate dean emeritus, dies at 76
03 Apr	-	UC Berkeley will welcome crowds to Cal Day 2000, its free April 15 open house
03 Apr	-	University of California, Berkeley Announces Admissions to Its Fall 2000 Freshman Class
March 2000
29 Mar	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Etiquette lessons for UC Berkeley students
29 Mar	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: Presentation of The Berkeley Medal
29 Mar	-	Planet Hunters on trail of worlds smaller than Saturn
29 Mar	-	UC Berkeley psychologist finds evidence that male hormones in the womb affect sexual orientation
29 Mar	-	UC Berkeley football players help high school athletes tackle homework, consider college
27 Mar	-	New social venture competition at UC Berkeley lures business plans from nation's top business schools
24 Mar	-	Newest version of UC Berkeley computer model, used widely by semiconductor industry, will help with design of future speed electronics
24 Mar	-	UC Berkeley collaboration with Celera Genomics concludes with publication of nearly complete sequence of the genome of the fruit fly
23 Mar	-	UC Berkeley alumna receives top award for educational reforms in her homeland of India
23 Mar	-	Symposium Sat., March 25, to honor Professor Daniel Koshland Jr.: biochemist, visionary and UC Berkeley benefactor
22 Mar	-	Infamous "van Gogh" beverage contains potent toxin with curious brain effects, UC Berkeley scientists discover
22 Mar	-	Spring break for 70 UC Berkeley undergrads means recruiting college students from Southern California
21 Mar	-	Hip-hop culture becomes a world-wide language for youth resistance, according to UC Berkeley course
20 Mar	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: "Restructuring Medicare: Why? What? When?," a presentation at the University of California, Berkeley
17 Mar	-	UC Berkeley's student debaters win the national parliamentary championship for the campus with their own money
16 Mar	-	Prominent environmental and human rights advocate to headline UC Berkeley Charter Day ceremony
14 Mar	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: A presentation about ways to ensure that sweatshop conditions do not occur in factories that manufacture collegiate apparel and other products
14 Mar	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: "The Academy Awards: Boys, Girls, Men and Women in the 1999 Film Year," a lunch hour critique by Carolyn Patty Blum
13 Mar	-	UC Berkeley undergraduates show off their research at UC Day in Sacramento, March 13 & 14
10 Mar	-	MEDIA ADVISORY: The Earl "Fatha" Hines Symposium, an event to honor the late legendary jazz pianist and band leader
09 Mar	-	Former UC Berkeley chancellor, Smithsonian chief I. Michael Heyman returns to Berkeley campus
09 Mar	-	Meteoroid bombardment of moon has intensified in past 500 million years, coinciding with blossoming of life on Earth
09 Mar	-	New study suggests humans will not live long enough to see Earth recover from a mass extinction
08 Mar	-	Panhellenic Games to be revived again this June at UC Berkeley excavation site in Nemea, Greece
08 Mar	-	UC Berkeley will welcome crowds to Cal Day 2000, its April 15 open house
07 Mar	-	UC Berkeley professor working with Chechen colleagues to save endangered language
03 Mar	-	UC Berkeley chemists find reliable way to grow quantum rods and pack them into microscopic solar cells and LEDs
01 Mar	-	UC Berkeley's "Lunch Poems" proves among most popular of ongoing public poetry readings
February 2000
29 Feb	-	New cryogenic detectors probe recent evidence for dark matter particle
28 Feb	-	Sociologist Troy Duster appointed to lead an expanded American Cultures program at UC Berkeley
25 Feb	-	Newfound quasar wins title "most distant in the universe," UC Berkeley and Caltech astronomers report
25 Feb	-	New UC Berkeley "bionic chip" features living biological cell successfully merged with electronic circuitry
20 Feb	-	UC Berkeley professor says best approach to learning science is deeper study of fewer topics
20 Feb	-	UC Berkeley and Colorado scientists find valuable new source of hydrogen fuel, produced by common algae
20 Feb	-	Increased international trade could be death knell to many of our native species, says UC Berkeley ecologist
17 Feb	-	UC Berkeley professor finds talking with hundreds of students no laughing matter
16 Feb	-	First-ever images of atom-scale electron clouds in high-temperature superconductors could help in design of new and better materials
15 Feb	-	Law professor John P. Dwyer appointed new dean of UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall
14 Feb	-	Revised model of protein-drug interactions could make job of drug designers a little easier
09 Feb	-	Lisa Capps, gifted young UC Berkeley psychologist, dies of lung cancer at 35
09 Feb	-	Little houses of the less affluent draw the scholarly attention of UC Berkeley architecture professor
07 Feb	-	UC Berkeley's Berkeley Pledge outreach program posts significant gains in K-12 math and literacy
04 Feb	-	Suzanne Fleischman, UC Berkeley French professor who also explored the language of illness, dies at age 51
03 Feb	-	Smokers could benefit from even a modest addition of vitamin C to their diet, according to study by UC Berkeley and USDA
03 Feb	-	Engineering Dean Paul R. Gray selected to become UC Berkeley's new Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
02 Feb	-	UC Berkeley's new Free Speech Movement Café, honoring 1964 struggle, to be dedicated Thursday
01 Feb	-	UC Berkeley music department scores big hit hiring prominent saxophonist Steve Coleman to teach, do research
January 2000
27 Jan	-	Patent filed on energy discovery: UC Berkeley and Colorado scientists find valuable new source of fuel
27 Jan	-	Art on the Internet? Leading authorities will debate its evolution and future at UC Berkeley symposium
25 Jan	-	Geography professor Bernard Nietschmann, a champion of indigenous people around the world, has died of cancer at age 58
25 Jan	-	"Designing Campus of Tomorrow" celebrates architectural legacies, explores higher education's needs
20 Jan	-	UC Berkeley geographer's new book, "Imperial San Francisco," details damage cities wreak on surrounding countryside
19 Jan	-	Economy booms but health insurance lags: More Californians lack coverage, new UC report finds
18 Jan	-	UC Berkeley professor's book on childhood in America helps define the country's past, future
14 Jan	-	High velocity clouds between galaxies identified as remnants of early universe and seeds of the Milky Way Galaxy
11 Jan	-	UC Berkeley landscape architecture professor selected to be jurist for Martin Luther King Memorial design
10 Jan	-	Scholars from around the world converge on UC Berkeley to discuss Web-based research community
06 Jan	-	Experimental psychologist Arnold Leiman, a leader in undergraduate education at UC Berkeley, has died at 67
05 Jan	-	Lack of after-school programs for preteens gives kids an advantage in conflict with parents, says UC Berkeley researcher
04 Jan	-	UC Berkeley faculty members set up $1 million fund to attract top graduate students and professors