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Fourth-year student Alva Gardner aspires to work in the clothing industry — designing for people, women especially, whose bodies don’t fit the “norm.” Her accessible-fashion concepts include pants with pockets at the knees, where people in wheelchairs, like herself, “could actually use them.” American studies, psychology, art, disability, gender, sexuality and women’s studies are among her protean interests.
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Berkeley researchers find big benefits for students, taxpayers and state from funding of higher education
April 24, 2012: The State of California needs to consider the whopping return on investments for higher education as it tries to balance its budget, UC Berkeley researchers say in new study, “California’s Economic Payoff: Investing in College Access and Completion.”
Dynamic campus program for students over 50 gets major support
April 24, 2012: A UC Berkeley program that provides a special curriculum for students over 50 just got a $1 million boost from the Bernard Osher Foundation. This is the second $1 million gift from the foundation for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, also called OLLI@Berkeley.
Journalism student reports on SF millinery and its stylish Mad Hatters 
April 23, 2012: Journalism grad student Justine Quart ’13 writes, in The Bold Italic, about Paul’s Hat Works, a traditional millinery in the outer Richmond, and its four female proprietors.
UC Berkeley class prepares disabled students for competitive job market 
April 23, 2012: If it’s a tough job market out there for able-bodied college graduates, imagine how employment prospects might look to students with cerebral palsy or a muscular or neurodegenerative disease. That’s why a dozen UC Berkeley students are enrolled in “Professional Development and Disability,” a unique course that is teaching them how to market their disabilities as strengths.
Daily Cal wins top awards from California College Media Association
April 23, 2012:
The Daily Californian received 23 awards, 11 of them first-place, from the California College Media Association on April 21. Among its honors: best daily student newspaper and best student-newspaper website.
Sustainability Summit marks progress toward ever-greener campus
April 20, 2012: At the campus’s 9th Sustainability Summit, progress in “greening” the Berkeley campus was everywhere evident — from the sheer number of student projects in the works to the metric tons of greenhouse gases not being emitted thanks to new institution-wide programs.
Taking stock, at ACES symposium, of ‘why engaged scholarship matters now’
April 20, 2012: In a keynote address for the April 13 American Scholars symposium “No Ordinary Time: Why Engaged Scholarship Matters Now,” scholar-activist George Lipsitz explored obstacles to mutually respectful collaborations between the academy and its community partners.
Going animal to fight multiple sclerosis
April 18, 2012: Using face paints, UC Berkeley student Chrystal Redekopp has transformed herself into a giraffe, a gorilla, a hippo, a pikachu, a baboon and a capybara — all for a good cause. It’s her way of rewarding donors to her fundraising for Saturday’s Walk to End MS, and she posts photos of the results on Facebook.
Big Ideas contest ends in popular split decision
April 17, 2012: Two social-enterprise projects — one global in scope, the other hyper-local — shared the first-place prize in the annual student-innovation competition.
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.
Campus releases 2012-13 freshman admission data
April 17, 2012: Demand for admission to UC Berkeley’s 2012-13 freshman class hit a record high this season. Among those applicants, some 13,000 students have been offered admission, officials announced today.
Freshman admission data 2012-13
April 17, 2012:
Tables showing the breakdown of new freshmen, by ethnicity, for the 2012-13 academic year in comparison to previous years.
Aspiring oral surgeon promotes “Super Star Smiles” for children
April 16, 2012: UC Berkeley integrative biology major Hường Trần says she is “paying it forward” with a program taking dental-health education into classrooms for needy children.
UC Berkeley job fair to reflect upbeat hiring market for college grads
April 16, 2012: This week’s pre-graduation job fair at UC Berkeley promises to be upbeat, with scores of recruiters coming to the campus, and a new national survey showing that employers expect to hire 10 percent more college graduates this year than they did in 2011.
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.
Financial aid questions answered
April 12, 2012: In a series of videos, Anne De Luca, associate vice chancellor for admissions and enrollment, responds to questions about financial aid — all prompted by her recent primer video on the new “Sproul Plaza” app.
Best student app? April 17 is deadline to cast your vote
April 12, 2012: A web application to assist in buying and selling textbooks and another that helps Berkeley students locate nearby places to study are just two of the student-designed apps in the Student Technology Council’s second annual People’s Choice Contest. Members of the campus community are invited to vote until 10 p.m. April 17.
Voting-scenario startup wins CITRIS Big Ideas prize
April 10, 2012: Web-based startup Politify earned $20,000 for its first-place finish in the information technology category of the 2012 Big Ideas @ Berkeley innovation contest.
Students take spring break for public service
April 10, 2012: While many students kicked back or headed to the beach for spring break, more than 130 from UC Berkeley fanned out into communities near and far. These civic-minded students, working through the Alternative Breaks program, lent their skills to post-Katrina renewal in New Orleans and environmental justice in Oakland, among other projects.
Berkeley researchers tackle California’s carbon footprint
April 6, 2012: The Cool California Challenge brings together 10 cities in a yearlong community-based competition to cut carbon emissions — with the winner crowned California’s Coolest City.
Ron Paul brings campaign to ‘home of free speech’
April 6, 2012:
The GOP presidential candidate spoke Thursday at Memorial Glade.
New Sproul App video: Financial Aid 101
April 3, 2012: With its latest Sproul Plaza video, the UC Berkeley campus launches a new source of information for students and families in need of financial assistance. Vice Chancellor Anne De Luca starts things off with a primer on getting financial aid.
The girl who feels no pain
March 29, 2012: To understand how the brain works, a good approach is to look at what happens when parts of the brain malfunction. On the student blog “Psych Your Mind,” doctoral candidate Amie Gordon describes three intriguing neurological disorders.
‘RecycleMania’ a spirited, diverting race to zero waste
March 27, 2012: Sustainability-minded Berkeley students are wrapping up an intensive two-month recycling and waste-reduction blitz, spurred by the campus’s first-time participation in a coast-to-coast contest, RecycleMania.
When he’s not making resonators, he’s making music
March 26, 2012: Of the 34 accomplished violinists in UC Berkeley’s Symphony Orchestra, one dons a Tyvek cap, coveralls and booties at the campus’s Marvell NanoLab by day. He is Ernest Ting-Ta Yen, a mechanical engineering Ph.D. student who researches microelectromechanical systems, also known as MEMS.
Turning kitchen gadgets (and more) into low-cost lab equipment
March 26, 2012: Postdoc Lina Nilsson and engineering colleagues have been developing low-cost, accessible devices for doing lab research — then sharing their blueprints and instructions online for creating do-it-yourself equipment. Their inventive concept won first place for social entrepreneurship in the 2010-11 Big Ideas @ Berkeley contest.
Happy 100th, Doe Library!
March 22, 2012: Well-wishers crowded the marble corridors, elegant reading rooms and book-lined spaces of Doe Library Wednesday afternoon, as the campus marked the 100th anniversary of a stunning building, its world-class collections and its enduring mission.
Students step up to budget challenge
March 21, 2012: Clickers in hand, a civic-minded student audience weighs some tough choices on cuts and spending.
Haas MBA team beats 70 other schools
March 21, 2012: While some people run, bike, and swim to earn their triathlon chops, others negotiate, pitch, and solve business cases. An MBA team from Berkeley’s Haas School of Business brought home its trifecta gold from Columbia Business School by winning first place over a field of 70 school in an international MBA competition
Grad student demonstrates long-predicted effect on cosmic background radiation
March 20, 2012: Nick Hand, a graduate student in astronomy, has confirmed a subtle effect on the cosmic microwave background radiation that was predicted 40 years ago. While an undergraduate at Princeton, Hand combined new survey data of distant galaxies to show that the temperature of the background radiation – a remnant of the Big Bang – is shifted when it passes through a galaxy cluster.
