http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Tue, 15 May 2012 23:07:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/14/commencement/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/14/commencement/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 19:07:37 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=30497 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. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/14/commencement/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/10/bike-to-work-day-2012/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/10/bike-to-work-day-2012/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 19:00:00 +0000 Cathy Cockrell http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=30225 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/10/bike-to-work-day-2012/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/07/student-awarded-trip-to-cannes-film-festival-as-only-u-s-student-on-international-student-jury-panel/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/07/student-awarded-trip-to-cannes-film-festival-as-only-u-s-student-on-international-student-jury-panel/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 17:40:36 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=27115 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. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/07/student-awarded-trip-to-cannes-film-festival-as-only-u-s-student-on-international-student-jury-panel/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/03/scientists-core-into-clear-lake-to-explore-past-climate-change/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/03/scientists-core-into-clear-lake-to-explore-past-climate-change/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 16:15:08 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=23523 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/03/scientists-core-into-clear-lake-to-explore-past-climate-change/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/26/cal-students-spread-the-word-at-richmond-high-with-college-going-help/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/26/cal-students-spread-the-word-at-richmond-high-with-college-going-help/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:19:26 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25084 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/26/cal-students-spread-the-word-at-richmond-high-with-college-going-help/feed/ 0 http://calday.berkeley.edu/ http://calday.berkeley.edu/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:29:02 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=28982 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.]]> http://calday.berkeley.edu/feed/ 0 http://www.thebolditalic.com/justinequart/stories/1828-mad-hatters http://www.thebolditalic.com/justinequart/stories/1828-mad-hatters#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:31:06 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=28924 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.]]> http://www.thebolditalic.com/justinequart/stories/1828-mad-hatters/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/17/students-study-document-little-known-central-american-language-of-garifuna/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/17/students-study-document-little-known-central-american-language-of-garifuna/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:33:38 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25955 Linguistics graduate students' efforts examining the little known Garifuna language may help with its revitalization.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/17/students-study-document-little-known-central-american-language-of-garifuna/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/16/aspiring-oral-surgeon-works-to-supersize-smiles-for-poor-children/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/16/aspiring-oral-surgeon-works-to-supersize-smiles-for-poor-children/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:16:43 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24650 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/16/aspiring-oral-surgeon-works-to-supersize-smiles-for-poor-children/feed/ 0 http://www.gf.org/fellows/17172-teresa-caldeira http://www.gf.org/fellows/17172-teresa-caldeira#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:22:37 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=28346 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.]]> http://www.gf.org/fellows/17172-teresa-caldeira/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/10/alternative-breaks-slideshow/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/10/alternative-breaks-slideshow/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:13:56 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=27341 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/10/alternative-breaks-slideshow/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/10/one-studentmy-alternative-break-in-new-orleans/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/10/one-studentmy-alternative-break-in-new-orleans/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:05:17 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=28125 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."]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/10/one-studentmy-alternative-break-in-new-orleans/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/03/29/never-before-released-toklas-oral-history-highlights-exhibit-of-bancroft-librarys-lgbt-collections/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/03/29/never-before-released-toklas-oral-history-highlights-exhibit-of-bancroft-librarys-lgbt-collections/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:00:46 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25953 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/03/29/never-before-released-toklas-oral-history-highlights-exhibit-of-bancroft-librarys-lgbt-collections/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/03/14/dignitaries-dedicate-campuss-matsui-center/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/03/14/dignitaries-dedicate-campuss-matsui-center/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:33:37 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=26411 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/03/14/dignitaries-dedicate-campuss-matsui-center/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/birgeneau/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/birgeneau/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:12:28 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=26817 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."]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/birgeneau/feed/ 0 http://igs.berkeley.edu/events/salon_2012/2012_press_release.html http://igs.berkeley.edu/events/salon_2012/2012_press_release.html#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:27:10 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=26422 U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin will offer his insights about politics in Washington at the April 12 IGS Salon.]]> http://igs.berkeley.edu/events/salon_2012/2012_press_release.html/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/01/30/lower-sproul-is-taking-shape/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/01/30/lower-sproul-is-taking-shape/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:21:45 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=23905 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. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/01/30/lower-sproul-is-taking-shape/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/01/30/california-native-plant-classic-jepson-manual-revision/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/01/30/california-native-plant-classic-jepson-manual-revision/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:16:50 +0000 Cathy Cockrell http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=23311 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/01/30/california-native-plant-classic-jepson-manual-revision/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/01/19/magnes-collection-of-jewish-art-and-life-to-open-jan-22/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/01/19/magnes-collection-of-jewish-art-and-life-to-open-jan-22/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:00:01 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=23068 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/01/19/magnes-collection-of-jewish-art-and-life-to-open-jan-22/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/12/22/year-in-pictures/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/12/22/year-in-pictures/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:15:41 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=22806 Beyond the protests, the story — as always — is one of engagement, passion and perseverance in the face of challenges, whether institutional or personal.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/12/22/year-in-pictures/feed/ 0