http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Fri, 24 May 2013 21:18:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/obie-awards-honor-detroit-and-grimly-handsome/ http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/obie-awards-honor-detroit-and-grimly-handsome/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 18:55:24 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34875 Judges for the 2013 Obie Awards chose two winners for best new American play, announced May 20. One of them is Julia Jarcho, a graduate student in rhetoric at UC Berkeley and author of the triptych "Grimly Handsome." Read NY Times review here."]]> http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/obie-awards-honor-detroit-and-grimly-handsome/feed/ 0 http://diversity.berkeley.edu/young-musicians-program-be-transferred-new-non-profit-organization http://diversity.berkeley.edu/young-musicians-program-be-transferred-new-non-profit-organization#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 18:08:47 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34878 UC Berkeley and the Young Musicians Choral Orchestra, an independent, non-profit organization, have announced that YMCO will assume the administration and management of the Young Musicians Program. This year’s summer institute, which will be limited to orchestra/choral training, will be YMP’s last official offering as a UC Berkeley program.]]> http://diversity.berkeley.edu/young-musicians-program-be-transferred-new-non-profit-organization/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/24/acls-awards-bolster-research-and-teaching-in-humanities/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/24/acls-awards-bolster-research-and-teaching-in-humanities/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 17:00:14 +0000 Roibín Ó hÉochaidh http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34879 A cluster of American Council of Learned Societies fellowships will benefit humanities research and teaching at Berkeley.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/24/acls-awards-bolster-research-and-teaching-in-humanities/feed/ 0 http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2013/05/22/breast-feeding-neanderthals-would-get-top-marks-from-todays-pediatricians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breast-feeding-neanderthals-would-get-top-marks-from-todays-pediatricians http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2013/05/22/breast-feeding-neanderthals-would-get-top-marks-from-todays-pediatricians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breast-feeding-neanderthals-would-get-top-marks-from-todays-pediatricians#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 18:20:39 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34873 Like all mammals, the Neanderthals breast fed their babies. Scientists wanted to know: For how long? In a new report in Nature, researchers from UC Berkeley and other institutions say the answer can be found in the fossilized tooth of an eight-year old Neanderthal child, discovered in a Belgian cave. KQED's science blog reports.]]> http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2013/05/22/breast-feeding-neanderthals-would-get-top-marks-from-todays-pediatricians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breast-feeding-neanderthals-would-get-top-marks-from-todays-pediatricians/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/23/worlds-top-scientists-california-nations-must-act-now-on-environment/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/23/worlds-top-scientists-california-nations-must-act-now-on-environment/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 16:30:09 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34840 At the request of California Gov. Jerry Brown, UC Berkeley biologist Tony Barnosky prepared with 15 other scientists a consensus statement about the environmental problems endangering Earth and what policy makers should do about it, and garnered more than 500 signatures before presenting it to Brown on May 23.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/23/worlds-top-scientists-california-nations-must-act-now-on-environment/feed/ 0 https://www.dgfi.com/DGFI/White-Papers/Currency-Wars https://www.dgfi.com/DGFI/White-Papers/Currency-Wars#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 16:25:11 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34869 In a white paper titled "Currency Wars: Perception and Reality", UC Berkeley Professor Barry Eichengreen, a leading academic authority on international currencies, makes the case that not all governmental manipulations to devalue a country's currency should be seen as part of a "currency war."]]> https://www.dgfi.com/DGFI/White-Papers/Currency-Wars/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/22/emeritus-english-professor-paul-alpers-dies-at-age-80/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/22/emeritus-english-professor-paul-alpers-dies-at-age-80/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 22:15:30 +0000 Gretchen Kell http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34867 Paul Alpers, a UC Berkeley professor of English for 38 years, died May 19 at his home in Northampton, Mass. Alpers was the husband of Smith College President Carol Christ, who served as Berkeley's executive vice chancellor and provost from 1994 to 2000. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/22/emeritus-english-professor-paul-alpers-dies-at-age-80/feed/ 0 http://ucberkeleyenglish.com/?p=1455 http://ucberkeleyenglish.com/?p=1455#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 21:29:07 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34865 At the English department's 2013 commencement, student speaker Prachi Naik '13 pays respects "to the connective tissue of our world, that glimmering lattice of convergences [that is] made most brilliant, most visible through literature."]]> http://ucberkeleyenglish.com/?p=1455/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/22/campus-to-share-expertise-with-middle-eastern-research-center/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/22/campus-to-share-expertise-with-middle-eastern-research-center/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:40 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34599 UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau signed a memorandum of understanding in April, committing the campus to sharing scientific and technical expertise with a new X-ray research center under construction in Jordan. The center, called SESAME, unites scientists from throughout the Middle East.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/22/campus-to-share-expertise-with-middle-eastern-research-center/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/22/citizen-scientists-help-calbug/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/22/citizen-scientists-help-calbug/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 17:30:14 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34545 UC Berkeley's Essig Museum of Entomology is opening up its collections to citizen scientists through a project called Calbug. The project crowdsources the digitization of a million handwritten field notes that accompany insect specimens, many of which were collected more than a century ago. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/22/citizen-scientists-help-calbug/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/22/citizen-science-at-uc-berkeley/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/22/citizen-science-at-uc-berkeley/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 16:35:35 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34838 Calbug is just the latest example of UC Berkeley putting a call out to the masses for help with large-scale science projects. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/22/citizen-science-at-uc-berkeley/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/21/architecture-student-among-11-us-recipients-of-new-sustainability-fellowship/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/21/architecture-student-among-11-us-recipients-of-new-sustainability-fellowship/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 22:30:00 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34835 By updating and expanding California’s utility-allowance calculator, Berkeley grad student Antony Kim hopes to make sustainable architecture more available to low-cost housing developers. He and his faculty mentor, Galen Cranz, are winners of the first-ever Schmidt-MacArthur Fellowship, which encourages the design of sustainable products and processes.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/21/architecture-student-among-11-us-recipients-of-new-sustainability-fellowship/feed/ 0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__DOMBWrgi0&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__DOMBWrgi0&feature=youtu.be#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 22:26:15 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34855 Each May KQED radio honors a number of 'local heroes" of Asian Pacific American heritage. Among its 2013 honorees is UC Berkeley sociologist Evelyn Nakano Glenn, cited for groundbreaking scholarship on the intersectionality of race, gender, citizenship and labor.]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__DOMBWrgi0&feature=youtu.be/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/20/uc-berkeley-2013-commencement-convocation/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/20/uc-berkeley-2013-commencement-convocation/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 20:15:30 +0000 Cathy Cockrell http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34574 A crowd of some 3,900 in black caps and gowns, and 21,000 fanatically proud fans in the stands above, turned out at California Memorial Stadium for Saturday's Commencement Convocation 2013. Apple co-founder and Berkeley alum Steve Wozniak keynoted the event, which was held in the sports venue for the first time in more than 40 years.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/20/uc-berkeley-2013-commencement-convocation/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/20/gov-jerry-brown-tells-grads-you-can-make-change/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/20/gov-jerry-brown-tells-grads-you-can-make-change/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 20:14:55 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34842 California Gov. Jerry Brown praised students for making a difference in the last election, and encouraged them to continue their activism to improve the world, in his keynote speech at Monday's political-science graduation.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/20/gov-jerry-brown-tells-grads-you-can-make-change/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/17/governor-to-speak-at-political-science-graduation/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/17/governor-to-speak-at-political-science-graduation/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 20:20:43 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34566 California Gov. Jerry Brown will address UC Berkeley political science graduates May 20.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/17/governor-to-speak-at-political-science-graduation/feed/ 0 http://uhs.berkeley.edu/home/news/BerkeleySHIPannouncement.shtml http://uhs.berkeley.edu/home/news/BerkeleySHIPannouncement.shtml#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 20:47:51 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34700 Chancellor Birgeneau recently announced that Berkeley would leave UC SHIP and return to a campus-based student insurance plan for the next academic year. Details of the campus plan, to be implemented in August, can be found in this post from University Health Services.]]> http://uhs.berkeley.edu/home/news/BerkeleySHIPannouncement.shtml/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/16/steve-wozniak-to-address-berkeleys-2013-graduates/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/16/steve-wozniak-to-address-berkeleys-2013-graduates/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 20:20:30 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34698 Apple co-founder, Silicon Valley icon, and philanthropist Steve Wozniak, a UC Berkeley alumnus, will deliver the commencement address. The event will also include remarks by outgoing Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and this year's top graduating senior Ritankar Das, a double major in bioengineering and chemical biology from Fremont, Calif. During the ceremony, Das will receive the University Medal for his scholarship, public service and humanity. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/16/steve-wozniak-to-address-berkeleys-2013-graduates/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/16/marlene-castro/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/16/marlene-castro/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 17:39:18 +0000 Gretchen Kell http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34662 Marlene Castro loved learning, but life in East Palo Alto and Redwood City, where her family alternately lived, made it tough. In an environment of gangs, weapons and school lockdowns, the high-achieving student was bullied constantly in middle school and high school – even jumped on and beaten.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/16/marlene-castro/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/16/jesus-galindo/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/16/jesus-galindo/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 17:38:20 +0000 Gretchen Kell http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34661 When Galindo was 9, his father, an elementary school drop-out, divorced his mother, and she fell into deep depression. The family had been troubled, poor. From that moment on, Galindo and his younger brother Alex, began a series of moves with their mom to 13 California cities.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/16/jesus-galindo/feed/ 0