http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Wed, 22 May 2013 23:00:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.dugdug.com/blog/future-of-veterinary-care-uc-berkeley/ http://www.dugdug.com/blog/future-of-veterinary-care-uc-berkeley/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:43:14 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34567 Aspiring veterinarian (or zookeeper) Amanda Wong is VP of the Cal Pre-Vet Club. In an interview with DugDug, "a blog for pets," the Berkeley junior talks about her stint as a zoo volunteer, teaching visitors about horned frogs and golden eagles — and other experiences with animals so far.]]> http://www.dugdug.com/blog/future-of-veterinary-care-uc-berkeley/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/26/hermit-crabs-socialize-to-evict-their-neighbors/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/26/hermit-crabs-socialize-to-evict-their-neighbors/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:50:13 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33326 Most animals socialize to protect themselves from predators or to mate, but the terrestrial hermit crab has a more self-serving social agenda: to evict someone from its shell and take over a new and larger home. UC Berkeley Miller fellow Mark Laidre shows that this predatory socializing is a byproduct of the crab's move from the ocean to land, where snail shells are less plentiful.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/26/hermit-crabs-socialize-to-evict-their-neighbors/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/24/did-bacteria-spark-evolution-of-multicellular-life/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/24/did-bacteria-spark-evolution-of-multicellular-life/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:10:13 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33220 A new study suggests that bacteria may have helped kick off one of the key events in evolution: the leap from one-celled organisms to many-celled organisms, a development that eventually led to animals, including humans.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/24/did-bacteria-spark-evolution-of-multicellular-life/feed/ 0 http://research.universityofcalifornia.edu/stories/2012/08/lizard.html http://research.universityofcalifornia.edu/stories/2012/08/lizard.html#comments Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:02:21 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32836 Integrative biologist Robert Full and his students have made discoveries about the agile and sticky gecko that have sparked product ideas ranging from rescue robots to sports gear. These animals — not to mention cockroaches, centipedes and crabs — have also captured the research imagination of undergraduate and graduate students.]]> http://research.universityofcalifornia.edu/stories/2012/08/lizard.html/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/2011/08/23/storing-vertebrates-in-the-cloud/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/08/23/storing-vertebrates-in-the-cloud/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:18:27 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=15281 UC Berkeley is leading an effort to take information on the vertebrate collections in museums around the world and store it in the cloud for easy use by researchers and citizen scientists alike.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/08/23/storing-vertebrates-in-the-cloud/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/05/17/botanical-garden-illustrated-guide-to-east-bay-hills-animals/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/05/17/botanical-garden-illustrated-guide-to-east-bay-hills-animals/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 19:36:34 +0000 Cathy Cockrell http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=11878 The UC Botanical Garden has published an illustrated field guide to animals found in the Garden and the rest of the East Bay hills. Researched by two Garden principals, both zoologists, it features close to 125 creatures, including mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds and insects. An event at the Garden on May 20 celebrates its debut. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/05/17/botanical-garden-illustrated-guide-to-east-bay-hills-animals/feed/ 0