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May 16, 2012
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Commencement Convocation sends 2012 graduates out into the world

Berkeley resounds with a joyous commencement with photoswith video

Joyous graduates, their friends and families filled Edwards Track Stadium in a swirl of blue and gold on Saturday, as they celebrated their graduation as UC Berkeley’s Class of 2012 and heard Google leader Eric Schmidt and Chancellor Robert Birgeneau send them on their way. With video and slideshow.

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Acclaimed scholar john a. powell leads Haas Diversity Research Center

Acclaimed race and civil-liberties scholar comes to Berkeley

An acclaimed voice on race and ethnicity and a civil-liberties scholar, john a. powell has joined the faculty and will lead UC Berkeley’s Haas Diversity Research Center and hold the Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion.

Regents, meeting in Sacramento, call on Legislature to reinvest

Regents call on state to reinvest

With state budget negotiations in full swing, members of the UC Board of Regents joined students in Sacramento Tuesday and called on lawmakers to reinvest in public higher education. Regents remained in the capital on Wednesday, holding their first board meeting there since 1993.

‘Accessible fashion’? To Berkeley senior, it’s about options, visibility

'Accessible fashion'? To Berkeley senior, it's about options, visibility

Fourth-year student Alva Gardner aspires to work in the clothing industry — designing for people, women especially, whose bodies don’t fit the “norm.” Her accessible-fashion concepts include pants with pockets at the knees, where people in wheelchairs, like herself, “could actually use them.” American studies, psychology, art, disability, gender, sexuality and women’s studies are among her protean interests.

Versatile University Medalist reflects interests from Chinese literature to forestry

Versatile student wins 2012 University Medal

Double major Eric Olliff’s inquisitive view of the world has helped earn him the 2012 University Medal, UC Berkeley’s top prize for graduating seniors.

Faculty/Staff News

  • Regents clarify provisions for new retirement-plan tier Regents clarify provisions for new retirement-plan tier
  • Brady urges participation in election polling with video
  • Crawford H. Greenewalt, Jr., longtime leader of Sardis Expedition, dies at 74
  • As May budget revise approaches, Yudof urges UC community to contact Sacramento
  • Tyrone Hayes premieres in new documentary on coming water crisis with video

Campus Notices

  • Brady urges participation in election polling with video
  • New statement about the Gill Tract
  • Berkeley undergrads join Sen. Boxer to discuss federal student-loan crisis
  • Words to LGBT graduates from one who's been there
  • Seismically 'poor' Campbell Hall bites the dust

Berkeley Blog

  • Hunger for hope: Solitary confinement and administrative detention in California and Israel
    Jonathan Simon | May 16
  • How to keep your child safe (and happy) online, part 1
    Christine Carter | May 16
  • The Precarious Couple Effect
    Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton | May 15

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Research Discoveries

  • Scientists at UC Berkeley and LBNL convert carbon in tobacco leaves into biofuels Turning tobacco into biofuel with video
  • Engineers press viruses into electricity-generating action
  • Floating robots track water using GPS-enabled smartphones with video
  • Law students play key role in Guatemalan human-rights case
  • Steelhead trout lose out when water is low in wine country
Discovered at Berkeley

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Co-founded by Berkeley faculty, Chiron developed the first hepatitis B vaccine.

Berkeley in the News

  • Maternal Deaths Plunged Over 2 Decades, to About
    New York Times | May 16
  • Scientists Generate Electricity from Viruses
    Forbes | May 15
  • Trout, salmon threatened by water shortages in California wine country
    KPCC | May 15
  • Facts show Democrats are job creators
    Politico | May 15

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