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A special project of Berkeley Law’s International Human Rights Law Clinic and the campus’s Undocumented Student Program has helped 103 Berkeley students decide whether to apply for a special immigration category that allows them to work legally and to avoid deportation. Most have won approval under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.
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UC Berkeley faculty, staff invited to host Japanese students
April 30, 2012: Three hundred high-school students who lived through last year’s devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan are coming to UC Berkeley for a three-week leadership program this summer. Campus faculty and staff are being sought to host them for a weekend.
Crawford Greenewalt receives prestigious award for work at site of ancient city of Sardis 
April 26, 2012: This year’s Bandelier Award for Public Service to Archaeology goes to a UC Berkeley classics professor emeritus, for his decades-long work exploring the ancient city of Sardis, capital of the ancient empire of Lydia.
Graduate students in linguistics leaving legacy for speakers of endangered language of Garifuna 
April 17, 2012: Linguistics graduate students’ efforts examining the little known Garifuna language may help with its revitalization.
Students’ ‘Acopio’ startup uses IT tools to assist struggling coffee farmers
April 13, 2012: Coffee production is an $80 billion industry worldwide, yet rural coffee farmers struggle to break even. Three Berkeley grad students — two from the I School and a third from Haas — have founded the social venture Acopio (“harvest” in Spanish), using information-management tools to help improve the bottom line for coffee producers in the developing world.
UC Berkeley leads $4 million program to train slum health researchers
April 4, 2012: The Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $4 million to UC Berkeley to lead a program to train and educate researchers, educators and professionals who can tackle global health challenges specific to slum dwellings. Joining UC Berkeley are researchers from Florida International, Stanford and Yale universities.
Charter Day 1962: JFK on Soviet-American cooperation, space science, state support for higher education 
March 23, 2012: Fifty years ago, President Kennedy addressed an audience of 88,000 at Memorial Stadium, offering hope for peace and praising the people of California for supporting the state’s colleges and universities.
Cal grad’s lost-and-found passport odyssey airs on NPR
March 20, 2012: A young man’s odyssey to return a visa-filled passport that he found at a Parisian flea market to its owner, ’49 Cal grad Betty Werther, captured the imagination of NPR, which aired the story on Sunday, March 18.
Comerio leads national roundtable on integrated disaster recovery
March 19, 2012: Northern California experts, including UC Berkeley architecture professor Mary Comerio, are heading up a national roundtable on improving responses after major disasters.
Exhibit of Botero ‘Abu Ghraib’ artworks, on loan from Berkeley, opens at Chilean human-rights museum
March 16, 2012: Thirty-seven paintings and drawings from Fernando Botero’s “Abu Ghraib” series, donated by the artist to UC Berkeley three years ago, are on display at Chile’s Museum of Memory and Human Rights through June 24.
Apology and the crisis in Afghanistan
February 29, 2012: The burning of copies of the Koran by American troops in Afghanistan has triggered a wave of riots and assassinations there. Have U.S. apologies helped or hurt? Jeremy Adam Smith, Web editor at the campus’s Greater Good Science Center, reflects on how to make peace by expressing regrets.
Cal Energy Corps offers summer internships
February 23, 2012: The Cal Energy Corps is offering summer 2012 internships in hands-on energy and climate research around the world — from Brazil to Germany to Ghana to China. Undergraduates have until March 18 to apply.
’49 Cal alumna reunited with her lost passport – and its finder
February 21, 2012: Adventurous UC Berkeley alumna Betty Werther was finally reunited with her first-ever passport on Saturday (Feb. 18) in Paris. Portuguese medical student Nuno Fonseca, who found it last summer at a flea market, hand-delivered the passport to Werther, along with a bouquet of flowers and a red scarf knitted by his 90-year-old great aunt.
Huts, artifacts in Jordanian excavation offer new perspectives on life 20,000 years ago
February 21, 2012: Archaeologists working in eastern Jordan have announced its discovery of 20,000-year-old hut structures, the earliest yet found in that country. Along with materials found in the huts, the find suggests the area was once intensively occupied and offers a new perspective on how humans lived at the time.
Alan Schoenfeld awarded highest international distinction in math education
February 15, 2012: Alan Schoenfeld, a professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education, has received the 2011 Felix Klein Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the International Commission on Mathematics Instruction.
Be vigilant global ‘netizens,’ not passive ‘users,’ Internet scholar-activist urges
February 15, 2012: How do we protect civil liberties, privacy and even the character of democracy in a networked world where private interests control much of the digital real estate? Scholar-activist Rebecca MacKinnon, author of Consent of the Networked, covers fertile ground in a talk at the School of Information.
Professor of Greek history worries about his homeland’s future
February 10, 2012: 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.
Wen-hsin Yeh receives Humboldt Research Award
February 9, 2012: China scholar receives Humboldt Research Award
Thumbing it from Paris to Cairo, 1950s-style
February 8, 2012: 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.
Berlusconi lecture delves into the cult of personality
February 8, 2012: 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.”
Lost passport in Paris connects med student to ’49 Berkeley alumna
February 6, 2012: Betty Werther made a beeline for Paris after graduating from UC Berkeley in 1949 and embarked on a life of travel, romance and adventure. Somewhere along the road, she lost her passport. More than 60 years later, a young Portuguese medical student is heading to Paris to return the tattered, 1950-issued passport to Werther.
Berkeley to hold UC Global Health Day on Feb. 4; registration closes today
January 27, 2012: Faculty, students and staff from around the UC system will convene at Berkeley on Feb. 4 for the second UC Global Health Day, featuring a wide range of subjects. Registration deadline is Friday, Jan. 27.
Ashok Gadgil wins Zayed lifetime-achievement award
January 20, 2012: Ashok Gadgil, a UC Berkeley engineering professor and a division director at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, has won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 2012 Zayed Future Energy Prize, given for innovation, leadership and vision in renewable energy and sustainability. Gadgil was recognized for his sustainable humanitarian work in Darfur, providing healthier, energy-efficient “Berkeley-Darfur” cooking stoves. More than 1,100 nominations were submitted for prize.
NAS honors Robert Powell’s work on nuclear deterrence
January 19, 2012: UC Berkeley political scientist Robert Powell has been awarded the National Academy of Sciences Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War.
Media Advisory: North Korean crossroads
January 17, 2012:
Experts will assemble on campus Friday to assess North Korea
Biofuels, land and ethics
January 10, 2012: Growing dedicated energy crops on lands that won’t support food crops is one of the promises of emerging cellulosic fuels. The latest issue of the Energy Biosciences Institute magazine, Bioenergy Connection, looks at how much land is available, its energy-producing potential and which plants are the most promising alternatives. It also explores ethical questions involved in moving toward greater use of bioenergy.
Berkeley Law lecturer, students work to effect change in Egypt
January 4, 2012: As a temporary adviser to the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative, in Cairo, Berkeley Law lecturer Stephen Rosenbaum is helping Helwan University law school launch an environmental-justice clinic, coordinating Egypt’s first national moot court competition and laying the groundwork for a legal-writing contest.
Berkeley 2011 — the year in pictures
December 22, 2011: Beyond the protests, the story — as always — is one of engagement, passion and perseverance in the face of challenges, whether institutional or personal.
Michael Nacht on North Korea after Kim Jong Il
December 19, 2011: What’s in store for North Korea now that longtime dictator Kim Jong Il has died? In a Q&A, Michael Nacht, a UC Berkeley professor of public policy, gives his take on the future and stability of this isolated nation-state.
Stellar student photos from London, Varanasi, Kilimanjaro …
December 15, 2011: Berkeley Study Abroad has announced the winners of its 2011 photo contest — featuring students’ images from the streets of London and Varanasi, fjords of Sweden, watering holes of Kilimanjaro and more.
Human-rights report calls for reparations for Khmer Rouge victims
December 12, 2011: A report co-released by the International Human Rights Law Clinic calls on Cambodia’s UN-backed tribunal to grant reparations to victims of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. Three Berkeley Law students helped author the report, “Victims’ Right to Remedy.”
