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A collection of black-and-white photos by Andrew Stern — depicting
life 50 years ago in Kentucky's hardscrabble coal mining country — is
on display through Oct. 15 at the Graduate School of Journalism. It is
the collection's first West
Coast showing. More >
A new study by the Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family
Security, "Cutting Child Care Out from Under Californians,"
concludes that Gov. Schwarzenegger's 2010-11
budget proposal would have a profoundly detrimental effect
impact on children, families, schools, communities, and the economy. More >
In an interview with New America Media, Public Health Professor Rachel
Morello-Frosch discusses a recent study, which she coauthored, looking
at chemicals used in the home.
The researchers measured air quality inside and outside homes in
Richmond and Bolinas, Calif. and found more than 100 chemicals, including
phthalates, parabens, PBDE flame retardants, PCBs, and pesticides.
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From the time he and
his husband adopted their son, Wesley, it took Berkeley staff member
Jon Bain-Chekal more than five years to persuade UC to change its parental-leave
policy. The change was one of six recent revisions to the university's
leave-of-absence policy.
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It
took Al Pisano, recently named to head the program office for Operational
Excellence, a week to agree to take the assignment. Now, the veteran
mechanical engineering prof is "completely committed'
to helping Berkeley achieve $75 million in annual savings by boosting
the efficiency, and effectiveness, of campus operations. More >
NASA has chosen a UC Berkeley experiment and three others to fly aboard
Solar Probe Plus, a satellite scheduled for launch in 2018 to explore
the sun's million-degree atmosphere. Physicist Stuart Bale, director of
the Space Sciences Lab, will lead development of instruments to detect
radio emissions, magnetic fields, shock waves and dust as the spacecraft
plunges into the sun.
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The fifteenth season of the campus's popular Lunch Poems reading
series kicked off on Thursday, Sept. 2 at Morrison Library. The 2010-11
series features visiting poets — including former U. S. Poet Laureate
Kay Ryan — as well as campus faculty and staff. More >
Patrons
of the library can photograph any of the materials in the Bancroft's
vast collection for personal use throughout fall semester. The trial
program, which aims to foster increased access to the library's materials,
began in August.
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Berkeley
professor Wayne Getz uses global positioning technology,
along with his background in mathematics, to help conserve zebra, buffalo
and other animals in his native South Africa. In the process, he is helping
to train the next generation of African-born ecologists. More >
UC Berkeley researchers Karsten Weis, Jan Liphardt, and colleagues have used
fluorescent probes called quantum dots to determine which molecules get
into the nucleus via its nano-pores and which get kicked back out. Their
findings could help design drugs that can get through the pores and target
a cell's DNA.
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Concurrent
exhibitions this fall at Berkeley and Stanford celebrate the complex
history of Mexico's fight for independence and its revolution. Drawing
on dozens of original documents held by the two institutions, "Celebrating
Mexico" opens at Berkeley's Bancroft Library Sept. 2. More >
The
campus's emergency notification system, WarnMe, sends students, staff,
and faculty text, phone, and/or e-mail messages in the case
an emergency situation, with instructions of what to do. But to receive
WarnMe messages, you need to opt in. More >
This semester's rich range of cultural offerings at UC Berkeley includes
a daylong cornucopia of free arts performances Sept. 26. It also holds
appearances by violin virtuoso Christian Tetzlaff, the much-loved Mark
Morris Dance Group, director Peter Greenaway,
and bestselling writer David Sheff.
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The
panel tasked with suggesting a new plan for sustainable UC pension and
retiree-health benefits has sent its long-awaited report to President
Yudof. Its recommendations would add a new pension tier for future hires,
reward long service to UC, and encourage employees to retire closer to
the time they are eligible to receive Social Security benefits.
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UC Budget Central
Campus acts to address major budget challenges
M.Gymnastics: Ishino
wins gold at PanAmerican Championships
