As Sunday’s vote on austerity measures approaches, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, a UC Berkeley assistant professor of classics and a native of Greece, is apprehensive about conditions in his native land improving anytime soon.
UC Berkeley chemists Chris Chang, Jeff Long and Marcin Majda have redesigned catalysts in ways that could have a profound impact on the chemical industry as well as on the growing market for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
The first-ever in-depth analysis of the costs of establishing a biometric employment identity card, just released by Berkeley Law’s Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, finds that cards for all workers would cost $40 billion, and would infringe on civil liberties and fail to stop the employment of undocumented immigrants.
The least expensive way for the Western U.S. to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy that may include nuclear power, according to a new study by UC Berkeley researchers.