http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:50:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/22/berkeley-black-history-month/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/22/berkeley-black-history-month/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:47:12 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25627 The annual monthlong commemoration of African American contributions to American society draws to a close with a series of events.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/22/berkeley-black-history-month/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/22/cal-corps-megan-voorhees-garners-statewide-honor/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/22/cal-corps-megan-voorhees-garners-statewide-honor/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:13:03 +0000 Cathy Cockrell http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25616 Megan Voorhees, director of Berkeley's Cal Corps Public Service Center, has been named winner of the 2012 Richard E. Cone Award. The California Campus Compact, a statewide professional association, bestows the honor annually on an individual who has made important contributions to partnerships between communities and institutions of higher education. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/22/cal-corps-megan-voorhees-garners-statewide-honor/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/22/four-from-berkeley-win-prestigious-gates-cambridge-scholarships/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/22/four-from-berkeley-win-prestigious-gates-cambridge-scholarships/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:44:13 +0000 Cathy Cockrell http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25545 Forty 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/22/four-from-berkeley-win-prestigious-gates-cambridge-scholarships/feed/ 0 http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/publications.php?id=396 http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/publications.php?id=396#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:43:35 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25619 The rise of for-profit higher education amounts to a policy abdication in the United States, as public universities have proven unable to keep up with growing demand, according to a new paper published by professor John Douglass published by Berkeley's Center for Studies in Higher Education.]]> http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/publications.php?id=396/feed/ 0 http://www.law.berkeley.edu/12891.htm http://www.law.berkeley.edu/12891.htm#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:42:58 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25609 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. ]]> http://www.law.berkeley.edu/12891.htm/feed/ 0 http://socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/NewsEvents/leiby.shtml http://socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/NewsEvents/leiby.shtml#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:39:49 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25652 School of Social Welfare Professor Emeritus James Leiby, a faculty member since 1961, passed away at his home in Berkeley at age 89. ]]> http://socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/NewsEvents/leiby.shtml/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/22/protest-response-team/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/22/protest-response-team/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:07:54 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25601 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/22/protest-response-team/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/21/lost-passport-reunion/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/21/lost-passport-reunion/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:27:45 +0000 Yasmin Anwar http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25563 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. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/21/lost-passport-reunion/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/21/weekend-occupy-cal-activities-end-peacefully/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/21/weekend-occupy-cal-activities-end-peacefully/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:13:52 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25530 Two tents were put up on an International House lawn near campus and about 100 protestors marched across campus over the weekend, but all events ended peacefully. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/21/weekend-occupy-cal-activities-end-peacefully/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/21/berkeley-archaeologists-jordanian-discoveries/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/21/berkeley-archaeologists-jordanian-discoveries/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:40:57 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25079 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/21/berkeley-archaeologists-jordanian-discoveries/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/02/21/berkeley-lab-mathematicians-win-cozzarelli-prize/ http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/02/21/berkeley-lab-mathematicians-win-cozzarelli-prize/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:08:06 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25488 Two UC Berkeley and LBNL mathematicians, James Sethian and Robert Saye, have won the Cozzarelli Prize from the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences for their paper on a new numerical method for tracking large numbers of interacting and evolving phases of materials. The prize is named after the late UC Berkeley biochemist & PNAS editor Nicholas Cozzarelli.]]> http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/02/21/berkeley-lab-mathematicians-win-cozzarelli-prize/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/21/hepatitis-vaccine/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/21/hepatitis-vaccine/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:00:44 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=21352 Building on his work at Berkeley, biochemistry professor Edward Penhoet co-founded Chiron in 1981 to develop diagnostic tools and biopharmaceuticals to tackle a range of diseases and conditions, including cancer, HIV, malaria, multiple sclerosis and cystic fibrosis. Best known for its work discovering the virus that causes hepatitis C and the subsequent development of screening methods to reduce the risk [...]]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/21/hepatitis-vaccine/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/19/climate-change-erodes-alpine-chipmunk-genetic-diversity/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/19/climate-change-erodes-alpine-chipmunk-genetic-diversity/#comments Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:00:09 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24387 Global warming has driven Yosemite's alpine chipmunks to higher ground, prompting a startling decline in the species' genetic diversity. The genetic erosion occurred in the relatively short span of 90 years, highlighting the rapid threat changing climate can pose to a species, and putting the alpine chipmunk on a trajectory toward extinction. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/19/climate-change-erodes-alpine-chipmunk-genetic-diversity/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/17/julie-sinai-town-gown/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/17/julie-sinai-town-gown/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:34 +0000 Barry Bergman http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24766 To Julie Sinai, a "policy junkie" who recently ended a nine-year stint as Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates' chief of staff, the time was right for a return to education, which she believes "is under siege right now."]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/17/julie-sinai-town-gown/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/17/occupy-cal-encampment-ends-without-conflict/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/17/occupy-cal-encampment-ends-without-conflict/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:19:37 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25455 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 [...]]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/17/occupy-cal-encampment-ends-without-conflict/feed/ 0 http://www.berkeley.edu/news2/2012/02/tarkis.pdf http://www.berkeley.edu/news2/2012/02/tarkis.pdf#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:10:48 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25444 Per Martin-Löf, University of Stockholm emeritus professor, scheduled to give three talks]]> http://www.berkeley.edu/news2/2012/02/tarkis.pdf/feed/ 0 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/arts/music/after-the-end-of-music-history-conference-at-princeton.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=Berkeley&st=nyt http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/arts/music/after-the-end-of-music-history-conference-at-princeton.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=Berkeley&st=nyt#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:48:12 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25388 Music professor Richard Taruskin, best known for his six-volume "Oxford History of Western Music," was honored at a recent professional conference in Princeton. In tribute to a man known to suffer no fools, a colleague offered a serenade: "My fearsome valentine/big scary valentine/you make me quake in my boots."]]> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/arts/music/after-the-end-of-music-history-conference-at-princeton.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=Berkeley&st=nyt/feed/ 0 http://innovations.coe.berkeley.edu/vol6-issue1-feb12/techbridge http://innovations.coe.berkeley.edu/vol6-issue1-feb12/techbridge#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:25:50 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25375 Rhonda Righter, professor of industrial engineering, is tackling a new assignment: serving as a volunteer role model to 35 middle-school girls. During a recent presentation at Oakland’s American Indian Public Charter School, she talked about her field: “Industrial engineering is all about making things better,” Righter said. “We’re like detectives who solve puzzles.”]]> http://innovations.coe.berkeley.edu/vol6-issue1-feb12/techbridge/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/16/administrators-continue-to-reach-out-to-occupy-cal-protesters/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/16/administrators-continue-to-reach-out-to-occupy-cal-protesters/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:05:32 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25371 BERKELEY — Occupy Cal protesters remain on campus despite efforts of faculty and administration last weekend and throughout this week to encourage them to end the protest.      On Tuesday, the group moved from Sproul Plaza to the steps of Doe Library citing a need to draw more attention to their cause according to some media stories.  Reports in [...]]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/16/administrators-continue-to-reach-out-to-occupy-cal-protesters/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/16/michael-heyman-memorial/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/16/michael-heyman-memorial/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:55:22 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24379 A public memorial honoring the life of I. Michael Heyman, the sixth chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 27, at the International House, located in the southeast corner of the UC Berkeley campus.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/16/michael-heyman-memorial/feed/ 0