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Donald Glaser, a Nobel-prize winning physicist who reinvented himself as a biotech pioneer and later dove into the field of neurobiology, died in his sleep Thursday morning, Feb. 28, at his home in Berkeley. Glaser, a professor emeritus of physics and of molecular and cell biology, was 86.
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Law prof’s book reveals human cost of climate change
February 8, 2013: New book by Andrew Guzman, Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change, predicts a grim future for billions of people in this century.
Two UC Berkeley faculty members named to NAE
February 7, 2013: UC Berkeley faculty members David Dornfeld and Ashok Gadgil have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the most prestigious professional distinctions accorded to an American engineer.
Academic Senate names Kerr Award winner
February 5, 2013: The Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate has announced the winner of its 2013 Clark Kerr Award for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education. He is Ricardo Romo, president of the University of Texas at San Antonio.
German-born Michael Rape awarded prize honoring young immigrant scientists
February 5, 2013: German-born Michael Rape, associate professor of molecular and cell biology, is one of three recipients of the 2013 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, which is awarded every year to immigrant scientists under 39 who have demonstrated outstanding achievement. The prize and $35,000 will be presented in April in New York City.
National Medal of Science awarded to psychology prof emerita Anne Treisman
February 4, 2013: Anne Treisman, professor emerita of psychology at UC Berkeley and Princeton University, is among 12 researchers to receive the National Medal of Science. One of the highest honors granted by the U.S. government, the annual award recognizes people who have made outstanding contributions to chemistry, engineering, computing, mathematics, or the biological, behavioral/social and physical sciences.
Chemist Jean Frechet to receive Japan Prize
January 30, 2013: Emeritus professor Jean Fréchet, a Professor of the Graduate School in chemistry and chemical and biological engineering, has received a 2013 Japan Prize, one of the most prestigious international awards in science and technology.
Public Health’s Potts: Educating women is the way to fight terrorism in the Sahel
January 25, 2013: Family planning and education for women are the best weapons to fight terrorism in Mali and the rest of Africa’s Sahel, according to an article by UC Berkeley public health professor Malcolm Potts, an obstetrician and reproductive scientist, published in the Los Angeles Times.
Public Health neuroscientist a winner of prestigious prize for dementia research
January 25, 2013: For his research on beta-amyloid plaques in the brain, Dr. William J. Jagust of UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health has been named a winner of the 2013 Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick’s, Alzheimer’s and Related Diseases by the American Academy of Neurology and the American Brain Foundation. The $100,000 prize is an internationally recognized tribute for advancing dementia research.
Prize highlights young economist’s steady, bold trajectory
January 16, 2013: BERKELEY — UC Berkeley economist Ulrike Malmendier could have chosen any number of career paths. After all, she speaks six languages, is fascinated with Latin and Greek, and loves physics and math. While working on a Ph.D. in law, another focus of her eclectic interests, she took a modern-economics course and that changed everything. Malmendier set off to explore the [...]
John Forte, researcher on acid-secreting stomach cells, has died at 77
January 11, 2013: John G. Forte, a UC Berkeley physiologist whose work on acid-secreting cells in the stomach pointed the way to treatments for ulcers, died peacefully at his home in Berkeley on Nov. 19, 2012, following a prolonged battle with leukemia. He was 77.
Somorjai, Lott honored by National Academy of Sciences
January 9, 2013: The National Academy of Sciences, the country’s most prestigious scientific organization, has honored UC Berkeley chemist Gabor Somorjai and mathematician John Lott for major contributions to science.
Haas professor named top under-40 finance scholar
January 8, 2013: Berkeley-Haas Finance Professor Ulrike Malmendier has been awarded the 2013 Fischer Black Prize from the American Finance Association, which honors the top finance scholar under the age of 40 years old. The prize was announced to the public Jan. 7, 2013.
War crimes scholar named to lead Human Rights Center
January 4, 2013: Alexa Koenig, a scholar of war crimes and international human rights law and Ph.D. candidate at Berkeley Law, has been named executive director of the law school’s Human Rights Center. Koenig has served as the center’s interim director for six months.
Physicist Art Rosenfeld to receive National Medal of Technology & Innovation
December 26, 2012: On Dec. 21, President Barack Obama named UC Berkeley and LBNL physicist Arthur Rosenfeld one of this year’s 11 recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. The annual award honors the nation’s top inventors. Rosenfeld is often called the “godfather of energy efficiency” because of his pioneering work on reducing the nation’s energy usage.
Banguns initiative calls for change, accountability
December 21, 2012: UC Berkeley political scientist Steve Fish is helping to launch an initiative called Banguns in response to the Sandy Hook massacre. Those signing the initiative pledge to vote for, or financially support, only those elected officials who actively support effective new gun-control legislation
Larry Conrad named new chief information officer
December 20, 2012: In a CalMessage, John Wilton, vice chancellor for administration and finance, and George Breslauer, executive vice chancellor and provost, announce the appointment of Larry Conrad as Berkeley’s next associate vice chancellor for information technology and chief information officer.
Literacy award named for former education dean
December 18, 2012: A new award of the Literacy Research Association has been named in honor of the former dean of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education. The P. David Pearson Scholarly Influence Award reflects Pearson’s life-long commitment to improving literacy instruction.
Update on federal income-tax rates for January paychecks
December 17, 2012: In the absence of a resolution to “fiscal cliff” negotiations in Washington, UC will use the existing 2012 federal tax-rate schedule to calculate early-January paychecks. In addition, new state tax rates will be in effect in 2013.
Men’s tennis coach wins prestigious national award
December 6, 2012: UC men’s tennis head coach Peter Wright claimed one of the most prestigious awards in college tennis when the Intercollegiate Tennis Association and United States Tennis Association named him the recipient of the 2012 USTA/ITA National Campus & Community Outreach Award.
Sanjay Kumar wins Young Investigator Award for neural stem cell research
December 4, 2012: Dr. Sanjay Kumar, associate professor of bioengineering, has been named the winner of the Young Investigator Award by the journal Stem Cells for leading research into the microenvironmental regulation of neural stem cells. The $10,000 prize is awarded annually to a young scientist whose paper has been judged to be of worldwide significance by a global jury.
Four faculty members named fellows of AAAS
November 29, 2012: Four UC Berkeley faculty members – plant biologist Sheng Luan, cell biologist Kunxin Luo, nuclear engineer Eric Norman and chemist Evan Williams – are among 702 new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, bringing the campus total to 227.
Berkeley’s next chancellor visits campus 
November 28, 2012: After his appointment became official at UCOP, Berkeley’s next chancellor visited the campus Tuesday with his wife, Janaki Bakhle. Read about Nicholas Dirks’ big day, see video of the welcoming event at Doe, watch an in-depth video interview and link to student reactions on social media.
Haas prof to advise U.S. Treasury on financial risks
November 27, 2012: Professor Nancy Wallace of the Haas School of Business has been selected to serve on a committee charged with advising the U.S. Department of Treasury on improving the quality of financial data and improving analysis of risks to the financial system. The new group holds its inaugural meeting on Dec. 5.
Robert Lin, UC Berkeley pioneer in experimental space physics, dies at 70
November 21, 2012: Physicist Robert Peichung Lin, a former director of the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, who designed and built dozens of instruments to study solar flares, the magnetic fields on the surface of the moon and Mars and the plasma environment of Earth, died suddenly of a stroke on Saturday, Nov. 17.
Alan Searcy, professor emeritus of materials science and engineering, has died at 87
November 20, 2012: Alan W. Searcy, professor emeritus of materials science and engineering who joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1954, has died. Searcy died Monday, Nov. 5, at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek. He was 87.
Freshman and Sophomore Seminars celebrate 20 years
November 16, 2012: More than 730 Senate faculty at Berkeley have taught a Freshman or Sophomore Seminar since the program’s launch 20 years ago. Through this popular program, undergrads explore a scholarly subject in a small-group setting. Faculty members who have not already taken part are encouraged to consider doing so.
Nuclear physicist Stuart Freedman has died at 68
November 16, 2012: Stuart Jay Freedman, a UC Berkeley professor of physics, nuclear physicist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and a world-renowned investigator of fundamental physical laws, died suddenly on Nov. 9 while attending a scientific conference in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 68.
Brewmeister savors buzz of extreme science
November 13, 2012: Diagnosed with Type II diabetes, Phil Broughton’s polymath mind and tinkering tendencies spurred the radiation safety specialist to dive headlong into the chemistry of coffee to tame his vicious sweet tooth.
Yudof, chancellors express ‘relief and gratitude’ on Prop. 30
November 7, 2012: On the day following the election, the chancellors of 10 UC campuses, along with UC President Mark Yudof, issued a message expressing thanks to the UC community for efforts leading to the passage of Proposition 30.
As Latinos go, so goes the nation?
November 6, 2012: Professor of Education Lisa García Bedolla argues that anti-immigrant policies supported by Romney and other mainstream Republicans are alienating Latinos and driving them to support Democrats, even though they feel Obama has fallen short on his promises.
