SubscribeForty young U.S. scholars — four of them with a UC Berkeley pedigree — have been named to receive the 2012 Gates Cambridge Scholarship, a prestigious award that pays the full cost of a graduate degree in any field of study at Cambridge University.
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Four from Berkeley win prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarships
February 22, 2012:
Berkeley Law teams win awards in major advocacy competitions
February 22, 2012: Two Berkeley Law teams bested hundreds of competitors to advance to the finals at major advocacy competitions this winter — the National Moot Court Competition and the American Bar Association Employment Law Trial Advocacy Competition.
Protest Response Team outlines ‘evolving approach’ to campus unrest
February 22, 2012:
In a CalMessage to the UC Berkeley community, George Breslauer, executive vice chancellor and provost, and John Wilton, vice chancellor for administration and finance, lay out the campus’s new guidelines for dealing with protests that violate campus policies. Co-chairs of the campus’s Protest Response Team, Breslauer and Wilton note that the guidelines “proved helpful in reaching peaceful resolutions” of three recent protests.
’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.
Occupy Cal encampment ends without conflict
February 17, 2012:
BERKELEY — Occupy Cal protesters ended their one-week encampment at University of California, Berkeley, early Friday morning (Feb. 17), after UCPD officers instructed the individuals to leave or face citation. No one was arrested. The encampment, which included 13 tents, was located outside the entrance to the main campus library. Police asked protesters for identification and determined that seven were [...]
Q&A: Allan Sly on probability theory and random processes
February 15, 2012: Newly awarded a 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Allan Sly, assistant professor of statistics, talks about his research into probability theory, his students and his own days a UC Berkeley graduate student.
Berkeley senior wins prestigious Churchill scholarship
February 14, 2012: As Berkeley’s first Churchill scholar since 1991, civil and environmental engineering major Colin Meyer will use his $50,000 award to continue his studies at England’s University of Cambridge.
At subdued Boalt Hall forum, Nov. 9 protest clash gets a hearing
February 14, 2012: A Police Review Board forum drew a sparse crowd, but elicited powerful testimony from students, faculty and others who said they were victims of, or witnesses to, police violence during November’s Occupy Cal protests.
Valentine’s Day shines spotlight on campus love 
February 14, 2012: Campus couples talk about the challenges and rewards of working together and reveal their favorite romantic places at UC Berkeley.
Student coalition, chancellor urge overturn of Prop. 209
February 13, 2012: A multicultural student coalition that includes students from UC Berkeley is calling for the repeal of Proposition 209, which outlawed affirmative action programs in the state’s public agencies. Chancellor Birgeneau said he is giving his “full personal support” to the group’s initiative to promote racial equality in public higher education in California.
Engineering, by popular demand, to offer energy major for undergrads
February 13, 2012: Driven largely by undergraduate interest, the College of Engineering has launched a new major that focuses on the generation, transmission and storage of energy, with additional courses on energy policy. Beginning this fall, the new Energy Engineering major will admit up to eight new students each year.
Send your valentine a singing ‘gram
February 13, 2012: For Valentine’s Day, student members of UC Choral Ensembles will deliver singing “Valentine grams” — two songs, a rose and a personalized card — starting at $20.
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.
UC Berkeley grad student’s research spurred by Gulf oil spill
February 8, 2012: 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.
With a foothold at Berkeley, ‘engaged scholarship’ goes where it’s needed
February 8, 2012: 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.
Birgeneau enlists students in federal-funding push
February 6, 2012: 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 [...]
Police Review Board sets public forum dates
February 6, 2012:
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
The making of a Berkeley feature film: high aims and rubber duckies
February 6, 2012: What would happen if five Berkeley students, sick of being college-poor, were to jump into the local real estate market and strike it rich? A Berkeley student and a recent graduate are starting with that premise to make a feature film called “Bullish,” intended as a satire attacking capitalism and showing that the 99 percent can prevail. They have high hopes to place it in small film festivals.
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.
Pauley forum opens dialogue on UC’s response to campus protests
February 1, 2012: Part of UC’s “Looking Forward” project, Pauley Ballroom was the scene of some genuine dialogue between Berkeley students and university administrators on the subject of the campus’s response to November’s Occupy Cal protests.
Berkeley’s writing requirement? Bold vision, endless revision
January 31, 2012: College Writing Programs, or CWP, has come a long way from its 19th-century origins, when students were schooled in Subject A, “Oral and Written Expression.” The 21st-century Berkeley program offers more than 20 courses in everything from public speaking, creative nonfiction and travel writing to new media.
Police Review Board update
January 30, 2012: A campus Police Review Board report on the November 2011 protests will be delayed beyond the original Jan. 31 deadline, PRB chair Jesse Choper said in a letter to the Chancellor. (PDF)
A new Lower Sproul, long a dream, is taking shape 
January 30, 2012: The long-desired makeover of Lower Sproul Plaza is finally taking shape, and it’s the students who made it happen. Plans and architects’ renderings show a light-filled area that’s open, inviting and bustling with activity 24/7 — the true and beating heart of student life on campus. Take a look at the new Lower Sproul.
How Berkeley students made the new Lower Sproul happen
January 30, 2012: It took a lot of hard work, persistence and a big vote to breathe life into the Lower Sproul project, but Berkeley students proved up to the job.
J-School students’ ‘Food of Politics’ featured by USA Today
January 26, 2012: A video produced by Berkeley journalism students appeared recently on USA Today‘s website. “The Food of Politics,” spotlighting an Iowa diner where presidential hopefuls eat, was created for the summer 2011 Berkeley News21 project on food and health reporting.
Haas to launch UC Summer Institute for undergrads from Historically Black Colleges
January 25, 2012:
The Institute for Emerging Managers and Leaders, or SIEML, will take place annually at one of six UC business and management schools.
Community celebrates Ed Roberts Day
January 24, 2012: On Jan. 23, the campus honored the father of the independent-living movement, Ed Roberts, during an outreach event for local high-school students with special needs.
Occupy Cal stages ‘study-in’ at Kroeber Hall
January 20, 2012: Demonstrators occupied the anthropology library overnight Thursday, in a protest against curtailment of the facility’s hours and disinvestment in public higher education.
Occupy Cal returns
January 19, 2012: About 40 students and others staged what they called the “Spring Into Action” rally Thursday at Sproul Plaza, relaunching the Occupy Cal movement’s protest against a wide range of issues, including rising tuition and state disinvestment in public higher education.
City redistricting deferred, charter amendment planned
January 18, 2012: Redistricting in the City of Berkeley will be deferred to 2013, following a 7-2 City Council vote on Jan. 17. The council also agreed to draft an amendment to the City Charter, for consideration by the voters in November, to allow new district boundaries to deviate from those set in 1986. A group of UC Berkeley students have been agitating for at least one student-majority district. Berkeleyside reports.
