http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Sat, 18 May 2013 20:48:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 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/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 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/16/new-grads-head-back-to-class-as-teach-for-america-recruits/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/16/new-grads-head-back-to-class-as-teach-for-america-recruits/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 17:00:03 +0000 Gretchen Kell http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34571 Dozens of UC Berkeley grads are heading to Teach for America, a national teacher corps that ranks UC Berkeley No. 1 for the number of recruits who join, giving kids in poverty a top education.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/16/new-grads-head-back-to-class-as-teach-for-america-recruits/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/15/dorothea-lange-2013-winner/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/15/dorothea-lange-2013-winner/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 17:34:51 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34570 In South Africa, UC Berkeley graduate student Molly Oleson photographed farming women seeking better conditions; In India, she captured the lives of girls in Bihar, who are traditionally left uneducated; in Brazil's Amazon, Oleson will document indigenous communities’ struggle to protect their land and culture from destruction by a new dam. For her work, Oleson won the 2013 Dorothea Lange Fellowship. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/15/dorothea-lange-2013-winner/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/15/students-think-big-ideas-in-tackling-societa-problems/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/15/students-think-big-ideas-in-tackling-societa-problems/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 16:25:31 +0000 Roibín Ó hÉochaidh http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34441 Projects targeting money matters, water technology and cultural taboos took top prizes as Big Ideas @ Berkeley honored outstanding student solutions to pressing social problems.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/15/students-think-big-ideas-in-tackling-societa-problems/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/14/yamashita-prize-2013/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/14/yamashita-prize-2013/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 18:30:57 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34627 This year's Foundation for Change: Thomas I. Yamashita Prize has been awarded to Roxanna Altholz, an assistant clinical professor of law and associate director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic at Berkeley Law. Altholz successfully represented 127 family members of 28 individuals who were forcibly "disappeared" between 1983 and 1985 by Guatemalan security forces. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/14/yamashita-prize-2013/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/14/ugandan-aid-orphan-discovers-power-of-the-pedal/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/14/ugandan-aid-orphan-discovers-power-of-the-pedal/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 16:00:56 +0000 Roibín Ó hÉochaidh http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34577 The humble bicycle propelled AIDS-orphan Chris Ategeka from rural East Africa to UC Berkeley, driving him to success as an engineer, inventor and social entrepreneur.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/14/ugandan-aid-orphan-discovers-power-of-the-pedal/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/13/biology-scholars-thanks/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/13/biology-scholars-thanks/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 19:48:06 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34675 More than 50 students and 30 alumni of Berkeley's Biology Scholars Program gathered recently in the Durant Hall atrium to thank Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer for their support.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/13/biology-scholars-thanks/feed/ 0 http://police.berkeley.edu/about_UCPD/news/news_130502.html http://police.berkeley.edu/about_UCPD/news/news_130502.html#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34672 For the fourth year, members of the campus police force will ride in Bike the Bridges, a 25-mile fundraising ride to benefit Special Olympics Northern California. Others are invited to join the UCPD team or support it with pledges. The event takes place Sunday, June 9.]]> http://police.berkeley.edu/about_UCPD/news/news_130502.html/feed/ 0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QD68alhvqk&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QD68alhvqk&feature=youtu.be#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 16:51:19 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34685 U.S. Attorney Gen. Eric Holder delivered the commencement address at Berkeley Law on Saturday, congratulating graduates on what he called "your chance to help realize your vision of a better world." Here is a video excerpt of his remarks.]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QD68alhvqk&feature=youtu.be/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/10/top-berkeley-seniors-eager-to-make-learning-count/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/10/top-berkeley-seniors-eager-to-make-learning-count/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 21:00:16 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34503 Luke Bonham, Danielle Nicholson, Daniel Price and Leena Suleiman share insights from their time at Berkeley as they survey the road ahead.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/10/top-berkeley-seniors-eager-to-make-learning-count/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/10/legal-services-program-for-undocumented-students-students/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/10/legal-services-program-for-undocumented-students-students/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 18:26:52 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34044 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. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/10/legal-services-program-for-undocumented-students-students/feed/ 0 http://storify.com/UCBerkeley/bike-to-work-day-2013-at-uc-berkeley http://storify.com/UCBerkeley/bike-to-work-day-2013-at-uc-berkeley#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 22:42:35 +0000 Kathryn Bader http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34431 Hundreds of people strapped on their helmets and rode their bikes to UC Berkeley Thursday in celebration of Bike to Work Day, and some of them sent in their photos. Take a look.]]> http://storify.com/UCBerkeley/bike-to-work-day-2013-at-uc-berkeley/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/09/commencement-2013/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/09/commencement-2013/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 18:30:06 +0000 Yasmin Anwar http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34437 U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and California Gov. Jerry Brown are among the political leaders, innovators and pundits set to address newly minted UC Berkeley graduates at ceremonies starting this weekend (May 11-12).]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/09/commencement-2013/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/09/university-medalist-ritankar-das/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/09/university-medalist-ritankar-das/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 18:00:40 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34598 Ritankar Das, 18, double major in bioengineering and chemical biology, is the youngest University Medalist in more than a century. He will be graduating from UC Berkeley in only three years with more than 200 credits and a GPA of 3.99. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/09/university-medalist-ritankar-das/feed/ 0 http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/68459/from-fascist-europe-to-u.c.-berkeley-students-help-uncover-a-history-of-int/ http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/68459/from-fascist-europe-to-u.c.-berkeley-students-help-uncover-a-history-of-int/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 18:05:56 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34605 Students digging through Magnes Collection archives stored at the Bancroft Library discovered a world unknown to many these days: The lives of 70 professors who fled Nazi-occupied Europe in the 1930s and made their mark on UC Berkeley. "J Weekly" explores their findings, which were made through the Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship program and will be part of an exhibit at the Magnes in 2014.]]> http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/68459/from-fascist-europe-to-u.c.-berkeley-students-help-uncover-a-history-of-int/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/03/fiat-lux-winners/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/03/fiat-lux-winners/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 19:03:13 +0000 Barry Bergman http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34512 Dirks, who takes over as Berkeley's chancellor on June 1, and Robert Birgeneau, who has held that position for nine years, took a lunch meeting in a Durant Hall conference room with the winners of the campus's Fiat Lux Remix contest.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/03/fiat-lux-winners/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/03/dirks-ga-asuc-student-forum/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/03/dirks-ga-asuc-student-forum/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 16:40:41 +0000 Cathy Cockrell http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34499 Nicholas Dirks introduced himself and fielded questions at a conversational meet-up Thursday afternoon between UC Berkeley students and the campus's next chancellor. About 100 people turned out for what Dirks called one of the "first of a long series of conversations with you." Earlier in the day, Chancellor Birgeneau and Dirks met with student winners of the "Fiat Lux Remix" contest.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/03/dirks-ga-asuc-student-forum/feed/ 0