http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Tue, 21 May 2013 15:55:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/14/yamashita-prize-2013/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/14/yamashita-prize-2013/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 18:30:57 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34627 This year's Foundation for Change: Thomas I. Yamashita Prize has been awarded to Roxanna Altholz, an assistant clinical professor of law and associate director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic at Berkeley Law. Altholz successfully represented 127 family members of 28 individuals who were forcibly "disappeared" between 1983 and 1985 by Guatemalan security forces. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/14/yamashita-prize-2013/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/13/your-brain-on-sports/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/13/your-brain-on-sports/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 05:50:25 +0000 Barry Bergman http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34536 Author, J-School instructor and sports nut Eric Simons set out on a quest to figure out why he, and millions of other fans all over the world, act the way they do. He gathered his findings in a new book, The Secret Lives of Sports Fans.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/13/your-brain-on-sports/feed/ 0 http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/publications/news/2013/clark_tapped_to_be_chemistry_dean.php http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/publications/news/2013/clark_tapped_to_be_chemistry_dean.php#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 23:44:50 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34636 Douglas Clark, the current chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Warren and Katharine Schlinger Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering, has been designated the new dean of the College of Chemistry.]]> http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/publications/news/2013/clark_tapped_to_be_chemistry_dean.php/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/09/howard-hughes-medical-institute-names-three-new-campus-investigators/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/09/howard-hughes-medical-institute-names-three-new-campus-investigators/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 13:00:46 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34475 Three young faculty members - Nicole King, Michael Rape & Russell Vance - have won the most sought-after appointment for a researcher at any American university: as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. The institute will pay their salaries in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology and provide research funding, freeing them from constant application for federal research grants.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/09/howard-hughes-medical-institute-names-three-new-campus-investigators/feed/ 0 http://pmb.berkeley.edu/news/lemaux-lab-be-featured-kqed-documentary http://pmb.berkeley.edu/news/lemaux-lab-be-featured-kqed-documentary#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 20:58:32 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34607 UC Berkeley cooperative extension specialist Peggy Lemaux's efforts to engineer crops to reduce malnutrition in developing countries.will be featured in a half-hour program, "Next Meal: Engineering Food," that will be shown on KQED's Quest on Wednesday. The program explores the pros and cons of GM crops, as well as the future of research and regulation. ]]> http://pmb.berkeley.edu/news/lemaux-lab-be-featured-kqed-documentary/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/01/two-faculty-named-guggenheim-fellows-for-2013/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/01/two-faculty-named-guggenheim-fellows-for-2013/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 22:23:37 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34587 Two UC Berkeley faculty — improvising pianist and composer Myra Melford and English literature scholar Joanna Picciotto — have been named Guggenheim fellows for 2013, an award conferred for both achievement and promise.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/01/two-faculty-named-guggenheim-fellows-for-2013/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/01/dirks-scholars-and-spies/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/01/dirks-scholars-and-spies/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 19:05:25 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34549 Appearing not as a future chancellor but as a fellow faculty member, Nicholas Dirks led a history department colloquium Tuesday on the topic of "Scholars and Spies: World War II and the Emergence of South Asian Area Studies."]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/01/dirks-scholars-and-spies/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/30/three-faculty-members-named-to-national-academy-of-sciences/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/30/three-faculty-members-named-to-national-academy-of-sciences/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:45:17 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34583 Structural biologist James Berger, immunologist Daniel Portnoy and mathematician James Sethian have been elected members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/30/three-faculty-members-named-to-national-academy-of-sciences/feed/ 0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX6X4yu2f3Y&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX6X4yu2f3Y&feature=youtu.be#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:52:42 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34552 In an interview with NBC11, Robert Birgeneau talks access and excellence, Dreamers, and how -- despite a budget model for UC Berkeley that has changed in response to severe state funding cuts during his time as chancellor -- "we still spend our money, as we should, like a public university."]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX6X4yu2f3Y&feature=youtu.be/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/25/fourteen-staffers-six-teams-win-chancellors-outstanding-staff-awards/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/25/fourteen-staffers-six-teams-win-chancellors-outstanding-staff-awards/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:57:13 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34511 Fourteen staffers and members of six teams will be honored Monday (April 29) as the UC Berkeley campus recognizes the 2013 recipients of the Chancellor's Outstanding Staff Awards. Chancellor Robert Birgeneau will hand out awards and shake the honorees' hands. The 2 p.m. event will be streamed live online. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/25/fourteen-staffers-six-teams-win-chancellors-outstanding-staff-awards/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/24/ten-uc-berkeley-faculty-named-to-american-academy-of-arts-sciences/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/24/ten-uc-berkeley-faculty-named-to-american-academy-of-arts-sciences/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:17:28 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34527 Ten Berkeley professors have been named members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious 233-year-old honorary society of national leaders from academia, business, public affairs and the humanities.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/24/ten-uc-berkeley-faculty-named-to-american-academy-of-arts-sciences/feed/ 0 http://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/article/haas-faculty-launch-crowdfunding-campaign-solar-light-research-uganda http://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/article/haas-faculty-launch-crowdfunding-campaign-solar-light-research-uganda#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:00:40 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34491 Three Haas professors are bypassing traditional grants and going straight to crowdfunding to raise money for a study on how to get people in rural Uganda to replace dangerous kerosene lanterns with life-changing solar lamps.]]> http://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/article/haas-faculty-launch-crowdfunding-campaign-solar-light-research-uganda/feed/ 0 http://www.biotech-now.org/environmental-industrial/2013/04/jay-keasling-wins-bios-george-washington-carver-award http://www.biotech-now.org/environmental-industrial/2013/04/jay-keasling-wins-bios-george-washington-carver-award#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:26:59 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34476 Jay Keasling, a professor of biochemical engineering, associate laboratory director at Berkeley Lab, CEO of the Joint BioEnergy Institute and director of the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center, is the recipient of the 2013 George Washington Carver Award for innovation in industrial biotechnology. The award is presented annually by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO).]]> http://www.biotech-now.org/environmental-industrial/2013/04/jay-keasling-wins-bios-george-washington-carver-award/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/18/margo-bennett-named-ucpds-new-police-chief/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/18/margo-bennett-named-ucpds-new-police-chief/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:00:19 +0000 Janet Gilmore http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34463 Margo Bennett, a University of California Police Department captain with more than 35 years of law enforcement experience that ranges from community policing work to expertise in investigating major crimes at the federal level, has been named UC Berkeley’s new police chief, campus officials announced today (Thursday, April 18). She has been interim police chief since the previous chief retired in December. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/18/margo-bennett-named-ucpds-new-police-chief/feed/ 0 http://media.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/?p=1052 http://media.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/?p=1052#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:01:14 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34398 In her consciousness-raising scholarship on work, family and emotional labor, Arlie Russell Hochschild has reshaped popular understandings of society and social change. Her alma mater, Swarthmore College, profiles the Berkeley professor emeritus, a leading feminist sociologist of her generation, in its alumni magazine.]]> http://media.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/?p=1052/feed/ 0 http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/wresting-new-tricks-python-fernando-perez-wins-2012-award-advancement-free-software http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/wresting-new-tricks-python-fernando-perez-wins-2012-award-advancement-free-software#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:58:54 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34402 Physicist and applied mathematician Fernando Pérez has received the Free Software Foundation’s 2012 Award for the Advancement of Free Software for his open-source application iPython, which makes it easier for scientists to use the powerful Python programming language to crunch Big Data.]]> http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/wresting-new-tricks-python-fernando-perez-wins-2012-award-advancement-free-software/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/10/gold-folder-helps-faculty-and-staff-id-students-in-distress/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/10/gold-folder-helps-faculty-and-staff-id-students-in-distress/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:11:51 +0000 Cathy Cockrell http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34388 Faculty and staff at Berkeley now have a quick-reference guide to help them identify signs of an emotionally distressed student and take steps to access appropriate resources. In-person trainings on the new campus resource are set for two dates in April.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/10/gold-folder-helps-faculty-and-staff-id-students-in-distress/feed/ 0 http://bsa.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/%5Bcommitteename%5D/2012-13_EIM%20Call%20for%20Nominations%20edited-1.pdf http://bsa.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/%5Bcommitteename%5D/2012-13_EIM%20Call%20for%20Nominations%20edited-1.pdf#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:55:42 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34378 The Excellence in Management award,now in its 25th year, allows career employees to honor exemplary campus managers and supervisors. This year’s theme, "Agents of Positive Change,” recognizes outstanding efforts to help employees navigate changes in the workplace. Nominations are due Friday, April 12.]]> http://bsa.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/%5Bcommitteename%5D/2012-13_EIM%20Call%20for%20Nominations%20edited-1.pdf/feed/ 0 http://vcaf.berkeley.edu/initiatives/our-change-agenda/operating-principles/kudos-berkeley-community/kudo-month http://vcaf.berkeley.edu/initiatives/our-change-agenda/operating-principles/kudos-berkeley-community/kudo-month#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:10:15 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34369 Kudo of the Month: L&S facilities manager Ruben Mejia, an alum who's worked on campus for 20 years, exemplifies one of Berkeley's five operating principles: "We include and excel, together." We'll be spotlighting a different staffer each month, one for each principle. Want to give kudos to a colleague? Your chance is a click away.]]> http://vcaf.berkeley.edu/initiatives/our-change-agenda/operating-principles/kudos-berkeley-community/kudo-month/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/08/davis-berkeley-shuttle-adds-weekend-service/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/08/davis-berkeley-shuttle-adds-weekend-service/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 23:00:32 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34364 In response to rider interest, the shuttle between UC Berkeley and UC Davis has added Saturday and Sunday service. On weekends the shuttle, operated by UC Davis Fleet Services, offers two runs a day. The service is offered to students, faculty and staff from both campuses.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/08/davis-berkeley-shuttle-adds-weekend-service/feed/ 0