http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:39:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/11/jury-returns-verdict-in-use-of-force-case/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/11/jury-returns-verdict-in-use-of-force-case/#comments Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:34:57 +0000 Claire Holmes http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25065 BERKELEY — Yesterday a federal jury returned a definitive verdict in favor of U.C. Berkeley Police Officer Brendan Tinney finding that he did not use excessive force against a protester during the November 20, 2009 protests at Wheeler Hall.  Officer Tinney was defending the metal barricade line on November 20 attempting to control a large crowd.  Earlier in the day, [...]]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/11/jury-returns-verdict-in-use-of-force-case/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/10/professor-of-greek-history-worries-about-his-homelands-future/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/10/professor-of-greek-history-worries-about-his-homelands-future/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:27:36 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25037 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/10/professor-of-greek-history-worries-about-his-homelands-future/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/09/scott-shenker-elected-to-nae/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/09/scott-shenker-elected-to-nae/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:30:27 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24988 Engineering professor Scott Shenker joins the ranks of the National Academy of Engineering, bringing to 92 the total number of UC Berkeley faculty members given the prestigious honor. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/09/scott-shenker-elected-to-nae/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/09/breakthrough-in-designing-cheaper-more-efficient-catalysts-for-fuel-cells/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/09/breakthrough-in-designing-cheaper-more-efficient-catalysts-for-fuel-cells/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:25:00 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24711 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/09/breakthrough-in-designing-cheaper-more-efficient-catalysts-for-fuel-cells/feed/ 0 http://www.law.berkeley.edu/12839.htm http://www.law.berkeley.edu/12839.htm#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:01:35 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24968 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.]]> http://www.law.berkeley.edu/12839.htm/feed/ 0 http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/daily-planet/february-2012/daily-planet---february-02-2012/#clip612247 http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/daily-planet/february-2012/daily-planet---february-02-2012/#clip612247#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:32:38 +0000 Roxanne Makasdjian http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24776 Scientists have decoded electrical activity in the brain’s auditory system in order to predict the words a person has heard. Listen to the interview with Robert Knight on Canadian TV.]]> http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/daily-planet/february-2012/daily-planet---february-02-2012/#clip612247/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/09/wen-hsin-yeh-receives-von-humboldt-research-award/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/09/wen-hsin-yeh-receives-von-humboldt-research-award/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:33:31 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24837 China scholar receives Humboldt Research Award]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/09/wen-hsin-yeh-receives-von-humboldt-research-award/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/09/advanced-power-grid-model-finds-low-cost-low-carbon-future-in-west/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/09/advanced-power-grid-model-finds-low-cost-low-carbon-future-in-west/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:23:46 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24933 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/09/advanced-power-grid-model-finds-low-cost-low-carbon-future-in-west/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/08/on-the-road/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/08/on-the-road/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:30:02 +0000 Yasmin Anwar http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24839 An article about a 1950 passport found at a Parisian flea market has inspired Betty Werther – the passport’s owner, an American expatriate and ’49 Cal alumna – to write about her youthful adventures in New York, Berkeley, Paris and the Middle East. Read excerpts from Werther’s ad hoc travel memoir.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/08/on-the-road/feed/ 0 http://www.wellnessletter.com/html/wl/2012/wlFeatured0212.html http://www.wellnessletter.com/html/wl/2012/wlFeatured0212.html#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:47:10 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24923 Several recent large-scale research reviews have provided the best evidence yet that chocolate is good for your heart — good news as the national chocolate holiday approaches. The UC Berkeley Wellness letter sums up the research, but adds a few caveats about chocolate's pitfalls.]]> http://www.wellnessletter.com/html/wl/2012/wlFeatured0212.html/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/08/gulf-spill-spurs-student-research/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/08/gulf-spill-spurs-student-research/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:15:19 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=19288 Soon after the April 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil platform killed 11 workers and spilled 5 million barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, UC Berkeley graduate student Thomas Azwell packed his bags and headed to Louisiana. Azwell teamed up with researchers in the Gulf to develop marsh restoration technology that could impact remediation efforts nationwide. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/08/gulf-spill-spurs-student-research/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/08/igs-lecture-series/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/08/igs-lecture-series/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:28:45 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24867 With the 2012 US presidential race heating up, IGS visiting scholar Sergio Fabbrini unpacked the Italian media tycoon's rise to power in the age of "tele-democracy." ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/08/igs-lecture-series/feed/ 0 http://www.kavlifoundation.org/kavli-news/new-kavli-institute-announced-university-tokyo http://www.kavlifoundation.org/kavli-news/new-kavli-institute-announced-university-tokyo#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:15:20 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24843 The Kavli Foundation endowed a new Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo to be directed by theoretical physicist Hitoshi Murayama. While maintaining his position as UC Berkeley professor of physics, Murayama will guide institute research into cosmological questions such as how the universe began, how it will end and what laws govern it.]]> http://www.kavlifoundation.org/kavli-news/new-kavli-institute-announced-university-tokyo/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/08/engaged-scholarship/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/08/engaged-scholarship/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:35:08 +0000 Cathy Cockrell http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=19204 Urban forester Lara Roman, a Berkeley grad student, is conducting multi-year research designed to help a Sacramento tree-planting program maximize cooling shade for the area's hot summers. "Engaged scholarship" like Roman's, increasingly popular with students, is part of the campus's DNA. New forms of institutional support are helping it flourish.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/08/engaged-scholarship/feed/ 0 http://citris-uc.org/news/solving_brueghel_imbroglio http://citris-uc.org/news/solving_brueghel_imbroglio#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:45:42 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24819 Thanks to a grant from CITRIS, associate art professor Elizabeth Honig is employing some decidedly 21st century digital tools to help sort out a controversy surrounding Brueghel scholarship. ]]> http://citris-uc.org/news/solving_brueghel_imbroglio/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/06/for-chancellor-birgeneau-research-is-for-life/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/06/for-chancellor-birgeneau-research-is-for-life/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:59:27 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24281 Throughout his tenure as UC Berkeley chancellor, Robert Birgeneau has sustained a research interest in new materials, maintaining labs both on campus and at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Upon his recent receipt of the Shull Prize from the Neutron Scattering Society of America, Birgeneau reflected on the role research has played in his life at Berkeley.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/06/for-chancellor-birgeneau-research-is-for-life/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/06/birgeneau-addresses-graduate-assembly/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/06/birgeneau-addresses-graduate-assembly/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:10:29 +0000 Roibín Ó hÉochaidh http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24657 BERKELEY — In a talk to the Graduate Assembly Thursday evening, UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau called for intensified student advocacy for his proposed public-private funding model, which would redirect federal dollars to replace revenue lost through state budget cuts. Under the chancellor’s plan, which is modeled on Berkeley’s successful Hewlett-Packard fund-matching endowment program, the federal government would redirect $1 [...]]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/06/birgeneau-addresses-graduate-assembly/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/06/police-review-board-sets-public-forum-dates/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/06/police-review-board-sets-public-forum-dates/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:00:34 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24675 The Police Review Board announced today (Monday, Feb.6) that two public forums will take place, providing an opportunity for individuals to share their accounts of the events of Nov. 9, 2011]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/06/police-review-board-sets-public-forum-dates/feed/ 0 http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=244560 http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=244560#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:27:59 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24735 ]]> http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=244560/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/06/city-of-berkeley-lauds-zero-waste-stadium-initiative/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/06/city-of-berkeley-lauds-zero-waste-stadium-initiative/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:17:46 +0000 Cathy Cockrell http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24701 At a Feb. 4 basketball game, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates presented a city proclamation lauding Cal Athletics for its trial-run recycling efforts at Haas Pavilion this season, and "its commitment to the goal of achieving zero waste at California Memorial Stadium" when that facility reopens this fall.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/06/city-of-berkeley-lauds-zero-waste-stadium-initiative/feed/ 0