Students in Professor Keltner’s “Human Happiness” class produced short videos this spring on what makes them happy. A panel of judges named, as first-place winner, “Bill’s Story,” about a paper doll who learns about the relative value of wealth, status and social connections.
Multimedia archive
Scientists at UC Berkeley and LBNL convert carbon in tobacco leaves into biofuels
May 15, 2012
UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists use light to convert carbon in tobacco leaves to biofuel.
Public policy Dean Henry Brady promotes election polling to make more voices heard
May 15, 2012
UCTV’s “Prime Vote” features Henry Brady’s video commentary, Don’t Hang Up! Why Voters Should Respond to Pollsters,”as he makes a case fo folks to stay on the line and make their opinions heard, especially in an electoral season increasingly dominated by rich donors and highly paid lobbyists.
Commencement Convocation sends 2012 graduates out into the world
May 14, 2012 Joyous graduates, their friends and families filled Edwards Track Stadium in a swirl of blue and gold on Saturday, as they celebrated their graduation as UC Berkeley’s Class of 2012 and heard Google leader Eric Schmidt and Chancellor Robert Birgeneau send them on their way. With video and slideshow.
Floating robots use GPS-enabled smartphones to track water flow
May 9, 2012 A fleet of 100 floating robots took a trip down the Sacramento River on May 9, in a field test organized by UC Berkeley engineers. The devices, equipped with GPS-enabled smartphones, demonstrated the next generation of water-monitoring technology, promising to transform the way government agencies track one of the state’s most precious resources.
Tyrone Hayes premieres in new documentary on coming water crisis
May 8, 2012 Integrative biology professor Tyrone Hayes joins Erin Brockovich in a documentary, “Last Call at the Oasis,” that’s already getting praise for its discussion of a coming global water crisis. Directed by Jessica Yu & produced by the same people who created “An Inconvenient Truth,” the documentary opened May 4 in New York and Los Angeles and comes to the Bay Area May 11.
Bruce Cain on UCTV to talk campaign finance, polling
May 8, 2012
UCDC’s Bruce Cain talks with UCTV’s “Prime Vote” series about the era of PACS and who’s financing the 2012 election.
Scientists core into Clear Lake to explore past climate change
May 3, 2012 One of the oldest lakes in the world, Clear Lake has deep sediments that contain a record of the climate and local plants and animals going back perhaps 500,000 years. UC Berkeley scientists are drilling cores from the sediments to explore this history and fine-tune models for predicting the fate of today’s flora and fauna in the face of global warming and pressure from a growing human population.
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.
Cal students “Spread the Word” at Richmond High with college-going help
April 26, 2012 UC Berkeley student volunteers will introduce 90 Richmond High teens to campus Friday, culminating a yearlong effort to help these local students navigate a path to college.
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.
Bears “adopt” Brooklyn 4th graders to promote college success
April 17, 2012
UC Berkeley has “adopted” a classroom of 4th graders at Bensonhurst Elementary School, P.S. 247, in Brooklyn as part of the school’s College Partnership Program. A group of Cal ambassadors recently met via Skype with some of the youngsters, telling them about life on campus.
Tonight on Frontline, J-School jointly produces “CSI” story
April 17, 2012
Tonight at 10 pm PST on PBS’ FRONTLINE, correspondent and UC Berkeley professor Lowell Bergman examines how some well-known tools of forensic science have serious flaws. Students from the Invetigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley helped produced the story.
Space Sciences Lab learns more about colorful auroras
April 17, 2012
Using high resolution satellite imagery, scientists at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory are learning more about how the aurora borealis, or the “Northern Lights,” move across the sky. SSL physicist Chris Chaston tells Inside Science TV that, because of increasing activity on the sun, next year the colorful light show may be visible as far south as Minnesota.
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.
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.
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.
A political expert’s take on polls, social media and elections
March 29, 2012 In electoral politics, how useful and reliable are public-opinion polls? How do we understand the new role of social media? How do we increase the participation of young voters? Henry Brady, dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy, offers insights on the process.
Common online timekeeping system coming in 2012
March 27, 2012
In 2012, all campus departments and units will migrate to a common timekeeping system called CalTime. Members of the campus community, in a new video, talk about current timekeeping practices and why it’s time for a change.
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.
Linguistics students explore communication in ‘Journey’ video game
March 16, 2012 In a series of videos presented by GameSpot, UC Berkeley linguistics students analyze the communication system of the video game “Journey,” in which players interact without words or text.
ChronoZoom: A deep dive into the history of everything
March 14, 2012 Working with eight UC Berkeley students and with resources from Microsoft Research Connections, geologist Walter Alvarez has created a new piece of Web-based software that allows students, researchers and the general public to cruise through cosmic timelines. Called ChronoZoom, it could help students visualize the sweep of history.
Chancellor Birgeneau announces he will step down at year’s end
March 13, 2012 Chancellor Birgeneau will step down from his post on Dec. 31, 2012, he announced Tuesday in a letter to the campus community. UC President Yudof praised him as “a passionate, dedicated and effective steward of the world’s greatest public university.”
Scientists tap the genius of babies and youngsters to make computers smarter
March 12, 2012 People often wonder if computers make children smarter. UC Berkeley scientists are asking the reverse question: Can children make computers smarter? And their answer appears to be ‘yes’ as they tap the cognitive smarts of babies, toddlers and preschoolers to program computers to think more like humans.
New campus video puts Berkeley’s strengths front and center
March 9, 2012 In an e-mail to Cal alumni, parents and friends, Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau drew attention to a new 79-second video, “We’re not resting on our laureates,” that’s designed to raise awareness and support for the university.
New budget videos posted: You asked, and Sproul Plaza has the answers
March 8, 2012 Vice Chancellor John Wilton responds to questions about campus finances that were posed as part of a campus conversation about UC Berkeley’s budget, now playing on the new Sproul Plaza app on Berkeley’s Facebook page. Watch all five videos.
Student video highlights a welcoming campus for military vets
February 28, 2012 “Foot-print”, a short film by students in the Cal Veterans Group, provides a glimpse of life at UC Berkeley for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Some 300 vets are here today, twice as many as when the campus, in 2008, launched a new program to welcome them with outreach and orientation, financial-aid guidance and special workshops and classes.
MCB grad-student parody video wins 2012 ‘lab grammy’
February 27, 2012 A music video by molecular and cell-biology grad-student Mark Grabiner and his colleagues at Berkeley has been voted 2012 Science Parody of the Year, given by the professional journal BioTechniques. Their entry — “Grad School I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down” — features a manic, orange-haired puppet in a lab coat.
Raise your voice at ‘Sproul Plaza,’ the app
February 24, 2012 The campus is rolling out a new social-media app to foster dialogue between students and members of the administration, as well as faculty, staff and the campus community. In a new video, Vice Chancellor John Wilton begins the first conversation, about university finances.
From J-School’s basement, curious earfuls of iTunes adventures in science
April 30, 2012 Journalism chops, media savvy, nerdiness and (especially) curiosity add up to the “Field Trip Podcast,” a radio program created by a trio of J-School grads, and returning soon to a computer or smartphone near you.
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.
I School dean talks tech innovation on Canadian radio
February 3, 2012
AnnaLee Saxenian, dean of the School of Information and author of The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy, talks about what happened in Silicon Valley to make it the world’s tech innovation center, and how the future of growth and innovation will depend on the new Argonauts — experts who move information fluidly between creative hubs all over the world.
Scientists decode brain waves to eavesdrop on what we hear
January 31, 2012 Stroke victims or paralyzed people unable to speak may someday be able to communicate via synthesizers that decode their internal speech and play it back. That hope comes from research by UC Berkeley neuroscientists Brian Pasley and Robert Knight, who have successfully decoded brain waves to predict what a person heard.
California native-plant classic gets a 21st-century makeover
January 30, 2012 For California botany, The Jepson Manual is the authoritative reference book. Now the super-sized tome has been revised to incorporate a wealth of new knowledge about the state’s huge diversity of native plants. Scholars and staff at the Jepson Herbarium oversaw its 2nd edition, published by UC Press.
Botanical art as ‘capturing a plant’s soul’
January 6, 2012 A camera can record a plant, but a botanical artist captures its soul, says botanical illustrator Catherine Watters in an audio interview with Paul Licht, director of the UC Botanical Garden. Works by Watters and other artists, along with classes and programs, will be featured at the Garden’s third-annual Plants Illustrated exhibition, Jan. 14 to Feb. 3.
Can ‘carbon ranching’ offset emissions in California?
December 12, 2011 Could cultivating dense fields of weeds help mitigate climate change by soaking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere? Berkeley scientists Dennis Baldocchi and Whendee Silver are exploring that possibility in California’s agricultural heartland, the San Joaquin Valley. National Public Radio reports.
I School prof’s word of the year for NPR: occupy
December 8, 2011
Berkeley linguist Geoffrey Nunberg picks “occupy” as the word of the year for National Public Radio’s Fresh Air show with Terry Gross, because it “has actually shaped the perception of important events.”
Record massive black holes discovered lurking in monster galaxies
December 5, 2011 UC Berkeley astronomer Chung-Pei Ma, graduate student Nicholas McConnell and colleagues have discovered the largest black holes to date ‑- two monsters with masses equivalent to 10 billion suns that are threatening to consume anything, even light, within a region five times the size of our solar system.
PBS Newshour reports on black hole discovery today at 3 & 6 p.m.
KALW features I School prof’s teaching with Wikipedia
December 2, 2011 When he discovered a hole in Wikipedia’s coverage of cyber law, I School faculty member Brian Carver encouraged his students to step up to the task as volunteer Wikieditors. A J School reporter features Carver in her “Crosscurrents” radio segment on universities’ engagement with the online encyclopedia.
Chancellor: ‘I sincerely apologize’
November 22, 2011 En route to Thanksgiving back East with his family, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau recorded an audio message to the UC Berkeley community apologizing for the events of Nov. 9, and taking full responsibility.
ROHO staffer on Richmond’s remarkable boxcar village
October 31, 2011 One of the migrations detailed in the Bancroft Library’s “California Crossings” exhibit is that of Pueblo Indians who, upon arriving in the Bay Area, were housed in a Richmond “boxcar village.” Bancroft staffer Sam Redman talks about the village in a KALW radio interview, which also includes clips of ROHO interviews with Native Americans who lived in the village.
‘Kids First’ author David Kirp’s ideas on a new national agenda for youth
October 27, 2011
The Goldman School of Public Policy’s David Kirp outlines his ideas for reforming American education and putting “Kids First.”
Cal alum and playwright Wajahat Ali looks back on 9/11, Islamophobia
September 9, 2011 Playwright, essayist and attorney Wajahat Ali, a 2002 Berkeley English graduate, recently helped write a report on Islamophobia in the U.S. Ali talks with KQED Radio about the report and his play “The Domestic Crusaders” — about a Muslim family’s post-9/11 experience — which will be performed in New York City this weekend.
To catch a speeding bullet
August 1, 2011 East Palo Alto’s soaring homicide rate in the 1990s prompted EECS alumnus Robert Showen, an acoustics specialist in neighboring Menlo Park, to develop technology that could locate gunfire and tell police where it’s coming from.
Digital divide or digital bridge?
April 19, 2011 In an I-School event, four prominent thinkers debate the potential for electronic technologies to contribute to the socioeconomic development of the world’s impoverished communities.
Watching history unfold: Student POVs on the ‘Arab Spring’
April 14, 2011 Popular protests aimed at toppling rulers and promoting democracy have swept across North Africa and the Middle East since December 2010. What do UC Berkeley students make of the events of the so-called “Arab Spring”? Twelve of them share their views.
UC Berkeley recordings of Ishi added to Library of Congress registry
April 6, 2011 Recordings of songs and stories told by Ishi, a Yahi tribe member who was taken in by UC Berkeley anthropologists in the early 1900s, have been added to the Library of Congress registry. Ishi, who emerged from the Mount Lassen foothills in 1911, was initially thought to be the last-surviving member of the Yahi tribe. The recordings are part of the collection at Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.
Newt podcast with Botanical Garden director Paul Licht
March 3, 2011 The UC Botanical Garden is home to two newt species, Taricha torosa (California newt) and Taricha granulosa (rough-skin newt). The winter rains prompt the newts to migrate to the Garden’s Japanese Pool where their mating rituals and general cavorting can be easily observed by visitors. The garden is offering several opportunities to get up close and personal with newts this March including this podcast with garden director Paul Licht.
Jim Crow signs as symbols of subjugation, trophies of triumph
February 15, 2011 In the mid 1960s, landmark laws brought an official end to the system of legal segregation known as Jim Crow. Professor Elizabeth Abel explores the “visual politics” of a system that shaped experience and perception throughout the American South (and beyond) for nearly a century — in a book praised by literary critic Henry Louis Gates as giving “new focus to our national dialogue on race.”
Sotomayor presides over packed moot court finals
February 4, 2011 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, saying the arguments gave her “an injection of hope,” presided over the finals of the James Patterson McBaine Honors Moot Court Competition before an enthusiastic crowd of more than 2,000 spectators packed inside Zellerbach Hall.
Legalize marijuana? Pro, con, or undecided, Berkeley students sound off on Prop. 19
October 19, 2010 On Nov. 2, state voters will decide on a controversial and quintessentially California ballot measure, Proposition 19, the “Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010.” Where do students at Berkeley, with its reputation for liberalism (accurate or not) come down on the issue? Eleven campus undergraduates think out loud about the pros and cons of Prop. 19.
43 years after ‘Titicut Follies,’ it’s Berkeley, the movie
September 14, 2010 With dozens of documentaries under his belt, Frederick Wiseman has found that “when you turn the camera off, the interesting thing will happen.” That, in part, is why he plans to shoot some 250 hours of film for his exploration of life at Berkeley.
Gulf oil drilling is just one facet of South’s surfeit of heavy industry
August 17, 2010 Cal alum Rachel Edmonds ’09 is keenly interested in places like the Gulf of Mexico, where “dirty” industries provide jobs but can mar the landscape and degrade the environment. She recently visited many such sites in the American South — where much of the nation’s heavy industry is found — on a travel fellowship given annually by the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning.
How Japanese Americans preserved traditions behind barbed wire
June 10, 2010 For several decades, Berkeley staff member Shirley Muramoto Wong has tracked down elderly artists who, during World War II, taught traditional Japanese arts while imprisoned in far-flung “relocation” camps. In coaxing out and recording their memories, Muramoto — herself a master of the koto — has helped bring to light a little-known aspect of U.S. history.
At campus health center, Tangy Voce provides ‘emotional therapy’ and a chance to sing during the workday
April 28, 2010 For 10 years, Tangy Voce, a chorus made up of current and retired faculty and staff, has offered its members an opportunity to grow as musicians and gain confidence as singers.
Adventurous musical doubleheader to raise money for jazz students
April 22, 2010 This weekend two benefits for the Jazz and Improvised Music Fund will feature pianist and composer Myra Melford’s group, Trio M.
Giggles give clues to hyena’s social status
March 30, 2010 The giggle call of the spotted hyena tells other hyenas not only the age and identity of the animal, but also its social status, according to a new UC Berkeley study.
Marching on Sacramento, Berkeley students make the case for higher ed to legislators
March 1, 2010 A small group of UC Berkeley students are en route this morning to Sacramento, where they plan to join a small army of their peers in urging state legislators to reinvest in public higher education.
Student parent, born in an Andean village, aims to go global in defense of the dispossessed
January 15, 2010 Consuelo Bustinza’s journey has taken her, so far, from a tiny Andean village to a place she describes as “a big ocean of knowledge and opportunities” where one learns to “solve big problems,” UC Berkeley. Diminutive, energetic, and startlingly self-possessed, the campus senior aspires to one day be a voice for the dispossessed in the international arena.
Commencement Convocation sends 2012 graduates out into the world
May 14, 2012 Joyous graduates, their friends and families filled Edwards Track Stadium in a swirl of blue and gold on Saturday, as they celebrated their graduation as UC Berkeley’s Class of 2012 and heard Google leader Eric Schmidt and Chancellor Robert Birgeneau send them on their way. With video and slideshow.
Bike to Work Day 2012 marks revival of the fittest
May 10, 2012 Campus cyclists mobbed the Energizer Station at Bancroft and Telegraph during Bike to Work Day 2012 — getting quick bike repairs from the student group BicyCal, license renewals from UCPD officers and pastries provided by the Berkeley Student Food Collective.
English student going to Cannes Film Festival to serve on jury
May 7, 2012 Graduate student Ryan Lattanzio is heading to the Cannes Film Festival, where he’ll help select the winner of the “Visionary Award,” for a fledgling independent filmmaker.
Scientists core into Clear Lake to explore past climate change
May 3, 2012 One of the oldest lakes in the world, Clear Lake has deep sediments that contain a record of the climate and local plants and animals going back perhaps 500,000 years. UC Berkeley scientists are drilling cores from the sediments to explore this history and fine-tune models for predicting the fate of today’s flora and fauna in the face of global warming and pressure from a growing human population.
Cal students “Spread the Word” at Richmond High with college-going help
April 26, 2012 UC Berkeley student volunteers will introduce 90 Richmond High teens to campus Friday, culminating a yearlong effort to help these local students navigate a path to college.
Visitors share photos — lots of them — of Cal Day 2012
April 23, 2012 Visitors to Cal Day 2012 uploaded a mountain of photos of Saturday’s campus open house. Check out what what they saw and did in one sunny, fun-filled day this April.
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.
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.
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.
CED’s Teresea Caldeira named a Guggenheim Fellow
April 12, 2012 City and regional-planning professor Teresa Caldeira is among 181 new Guggenheim Fellows, in the U.S. and Canada, announced April 12. An anthropologist by training, her Guggenheim project analyzes public practices — including graffiti, pixação (tagging), rap and skateboarding — that are transforming the city of São Paulo, Brazil and articulate its profound social inequalities.
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.
One student’s Alternative Break in New Orleans
April 10, 2012 After a week helping rebuild New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward, UC Berkeley student Alicia Hernandez writes that she and her group found common cause with the residents’ fight for equality and justice and “we resolved that in some way, their struggles are bound up with ours.”
Never-before-released Toklas oral history highlights exhibit of Bancroft Library’s LGBT collections
March 29, 2012 A Bancroft Library exhibit opening April 4 provides a salon-like setting for conversations about the artistic contributions of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual artists through the years.
Dignitaries dedicate campus’s renovated Matsui Center
March 14, 2012 Students, faculty and state dignitaries lauded the Robert T. Matsui Center’s work promoting public service, policy research and education during a special event highlighting recent renovations.
Chancellor Birgeneau announces he will step down at year’s end
March 13, 2012 Chancellor Birgeneau will step down from his post on Dec. 31, 2012, he announced Tuesday in a letter to the campus community. UC President Yudof praised him as “a passionate, dedicated and effective steward of the world’s greatest public university.”
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin to be special IGS Salon guest
March 12, 2012 U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin will offer his insights about politics in Washington at the April 12 IGS Salon.
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.
California native-plant classic gets a 21st-century makeover
January 30, 2012 For California botany, The Jepson Manual is the authoritative reference book. Now the super-sized tome has been revised to incorporate a wealth of new knowledge about the state’s huge diversity of native plants. Scholars and staff at the Jepson Herbarium oversaw its 2nd edition, published by UC Press.
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life to open Jan. 22
January 19, 2012 The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, the latest addition to the city’s burgeoning downtown arts and culture district, is opening to the public on Sunday, Jan. 22.
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.
At UC Botanical Garden, conifers from around the globe
December 13, 2011 Conifers have captured human imagination since ancient times, and winter is an opportune time to take in these magnificent trees. See a slide show of conifer species — from hemlock, fir and pine to cyprus and monkey puzzle — in the Bot Garden’s collection.
‘Everyday Dogs’ book depicts allure of man’s best friend
December 6, 2011 New book drawn from the Bancroft Library’s vast Pictorial Collection celebrates the powerful connections between people and pets.
Berkeley hosts manufacturing brainstorm
December 6, 2011 Leaders from academia, government and industry gathered at UC Berkeley Monday to discuss partnership strategies to re-establish the United States as a global leader in advanced manufacturing.
In architecture prof’s SoMa loft, a vibrant mix of life and work
December 2, 2011 Thai-born designer/artist Raveevarn Choksombatchai replaced a ramshackle San Francisco teardown with a prize-winning urban home. The New York Times’ Home & Garden section offers a brief profile and a multimedia tour.
Ira Michael Heyman, former UC Berkeley chancellor, dies at 81
November 21, 2011 Ira Michael Heyman, chancellor of UC Berkeley from 1980 to 1990 and professor emeritus at the School of Law and in the Department of City & Regional Planning, has died. He was 81.
Native bees often better pollinators than honey bee
November 17, 2011 Honey bees get most of the buzz, but some native bees are better at spreading pollen. Berkeley biologists Gordon Frankie and Claire Kremmen say that natives may hold the solution to world pollination problems that affect important crops.
In Sacramento, students take a stand for the future of UC
November 16, 2011 A busload of UC Berkeley students joined a UC rally in Sacramento on Wednesday, Nov. 16. Their message to legislators: “no” to continued funding cuts to public education, “yes” to structural changes needed to increase available state funds.
Rally remarks: ‘Don’t let public higher ed in California be destroyed,’ Breslauer urges
Campus memorials honor U.S. veterans
November 11, 2011 From a basketball shaped orb to a grand football stadium, memorials to U.S. veterans are scattered across the campus. A slide show recalls some of these tributes to members of the campus community who gave their lives for their country and to veterans nationwide.
Students building satellite that’s seen as future of space research
October 3, 2011 An international team of students from Berkeley, South Korea, Puerto Rico and London is building a tiny CubeSat spacecraft, designed to carry out research high above the Earth, in Berkeley’s Space Sciences Lab. CubeSats are the wave of the future for space science research and education.
Vets turn military fatigues into ‘Combat Paper’ artworks
September 29, 2011 Veterans transformed their military clothing into pulp, then paper, at a three-day workshop at Wurster Hall Sept. 21-23, led by the nonprofit group Combat Paper. Artworks made by vets — and others touched by war — will be exhibited at Worth Ryder Gallery in October.
