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Campus / Iconic Sather Gate to be restored to its former majesty

Starting this month, Sather Gate, UC Berkeley's famous Beaux Arts south portal will be gently dismantled and restored. There are no plans to close down the nearly century-old gateway during the restoration project. More >

Election / Asian Americans could play key role in presidential race, study shows

While many Asian American voters are supporting presidential candidate Barack Obama, another sizable portion remains undecided, according to a national survey released Oct. 6. This could set the stage for Asian Americans to play a pivotal role in the election's outcome. More >

Campus / Homecoming photos: Philanthropy, fire, and football

Thousands of Berkeley alumni, families, students and friends descended on the Berkeley campus for Homecoming and Parents Weekend 2008. Slideshow

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Homecoming / Band on the run marks its 50th reunion

The Cal Band of ’58 was all over the map: from Berkeley to Brussels and back, with a quick detour to the Russian pavilion. More >

Economy / Why is Wall Street in shambles?

The Berkeleyan offers a sampling of what Berkeley’s experts have had to say about the global economic meltdown, as reported in the mainstream press. More >

Webcast: Global financial market turmoil

Art / Karl Kasten keeps his hand in

The emeritus professor of art practice — a member of the famed Berkeley School — remains active and energetic. So does his art, now on display in a campus retrospective. More >

International / LBNL, UC Berkeley announce India energy R&D program

Scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley are teaming up with India's government and private sectors to develop paths toward reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases while maintaining sustained economic growth. The Berkeley-India Joint Leadership on Energy and the Environment program also will include other U.S. and Indian universities, institutions, and corporations. More >

Astronomy / Cantaloupe ridges on sun expand its waistline

Based on observations by UC Berkeley's RHESSI spacecraft, physicist Hugh Hudson has found that, during years of high solar activity, the sun develops a thin "cantaloupe skin" that brightens and fattens the "stellar waist." By subtracting the effect of this magnetic field network, Hudson and colleagues have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision. More >

International / Nuclear weapons: Countdown to zero?

Berkeley experts join former Secretary of State George Shultz and others on a Commonwealth Club panel to assess the mother of all security challenges. More >

Design / A Piano lesson for CED students

On the eve of the California Academy of Sciences' grand opening in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park last week, architect Renzo Piano sat down with students to discuss how green structures can be beautiful, how every building has a story, and how creating a structure, especially one as complex as the academy he designed, is even more complicated than it looks. More >

Education / PACE studies offer recommendations for California schools

State leaders rely on inconsistent barometers of student progress, face a looming teacher shortage and wrestle with staggering and persistent achievement gaps — yet these problems all can be addressed, at least in part, without infusions of new money, according to a comprehensive report released Thursday by Policy Analysis for California Education. More >

Astronomy / Sharper Jupiter images from next-generation adaptive optics

Adaptive optics systems that remove the blur caused by atmospheric turbulence have revolutionized ground-based astronomy, providing images as sharp or better than those from the Hubble Space Telescope. A new system employing more than one reference star now allows use of adaptive optics over a larger field of view, producing the sharpest ever whole-planet picture of Jupiter.

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Campus news / Police patrols, focus on safety follow robbery incident at Clark Kerr

In light of an early morning break-in and robbery at Clark Kerr Campus, campus police have increased the number and visibility of patrols on and near Clark Kerr and have made investigation of the crime a top priority, Vice Chancellor Harry LeGrande told the campus community Wednesday. More >
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