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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.
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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.
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.
BotGarden collection stirs memories for East Coast refugees
September 7, 2011: A new slide show from the UC Botanical garden highlights the garden’s Eastern North American collection, which offers nostalgic encounters with plants from the past for those who grew up on the East Coast.
Elaine Tennant named new Bancroft Library director
August 22, 2011: Elaine Tennant, a medieval and early modern specialist in the German and Scandinavian departments at the University of California, Berkeley, will become the James D. Hart Director of UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library starting in September.
Cal baseball loses to Virginia, 4-1, in College World Series
June 20, 2011: The California Golden Bears battled the No. 1-seeded team of the College World Series for six scoreless innings Sunday before falling to Virginia, 4-1.
Cal baseball is College World Series-bound
June 13, 2011: Just months after facing elimination as a sport at Cal, the Golden Bears are heading to the College World Series for the first time since 1992 after sweeping Dallas Baptist in the Santa Clara NCAA Super Regional.
Cal’s Juricova wins 2011 NCAA singles championship
May 31, 2011: Top-seeded and No. 1-ranked California women’s tennis junior Jana Juricova captured her second singles national title as the winner of the 2011 NCAA Division I Women’s Tennis Championships on May 30.
…And doctorate makes three
May 24, 2011: Mi-Suk Kang Dufour brought her six-and-a-half-month-old twins along when she received her Ph.D. in epidemiology at Saturday’s School of Public Health commencement ceremony.
Cal community walks the walk@work
May 19, 2011: UC Berkeley faculty and staff participated in the second annual UC Walks: Cal Walks@Work Day on Wednesday.
Spirit and innovation sound key notes of Commencement
May 16, 2011: “Pomp and Circumstance” roused the spirits against the biting cold as 2,500 graduating seniors strode into UC Berkeley’s Edwards Stadium Saturday to celebrate scholarly achievement at the 2011 Commencement Convocation.
Engineers to help paraplegic student walk at graduation
May 12, 2011: Graduating senior Austin Whitney, in a wheelchair since a 2007 car accident paralyzed him from the waist down, plans to stand and walk at this year’s commencement ceremony. He will be wearing a robotic exoskeleton developed by UC Berkeley engineers to improve mobility for paraplegics.
TLC for Strawberry Creek: A native plant nursery opens its doors
May 6, 2011: Students celebrated the opening of the Strawberry Creek Native Plant Nursery, an incubator for East Bay flora, at a May 4 celebration. The new structure, paid for by students via The Green Initiative Fund, became a reality thanks to a vibrant movement to restore the Berkeley campus’s signature stream.
Art en plein air
May 5, 2011: Community art students gathered on Faculty Glade Wednesday to capture the season and a landmark buckeye tree, and to pay tribute to one of their artistic predecessors.
Backyard buzz: Bees in your garden
April 28, 2011: Student multimedia specialists from the J-School chronicle the Urban Bee Project, where researchers in a small Berkeley garden are working to make sure the world’s top pollinators keep busy.
Snapshots of Cal Day 2011
April 18, 2011: Great weather and big crowds marked the 2011 incarnation of UC Berkeley’s annual open house. A photo gallery captures the spirit of the day, which featured hundreds of exhibits and activities and a special tribute to the campus’s contributions to the Peace Corps as it turns 50.
Memorial Stadium construction moving into next phase
April 7, 2011: With the demolition of Memorial Stadium’s southern bowl reaching its completion, the jackhammers will soon be silenced as four new cranes begin laying the framework for the restoration of this historical landmark.
Vienna Philharmonic shares musical gifts with Cal students
February 28, 2011: The world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic spent three days in residency at Cal Performances, sharing their mastery of European classical music with Bay Area audiences and in special sessions with UC Berkeley student musicians.
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.”
