http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Mon, 20 May 2013 23:39:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://pmb.berkeley.edu/news/lemaux-lab-be-featured-kqed-documentary http://pmb.berkeley.edu/news/lemaux-lab-be-featured-kqed-documentary#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 20:58:32 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34607 UC Berkeley cooperative extension specialist Peggy Lemaux's efforts to engineer crops to reduce malnutrition in developing countries.will be featured in a half-hour program, "Next Meal: Engineering Food," that will be shown on KQED's Quest on Wednesday. The program explores the pros and cons of GM crops, as well as the future of research and regulation. ]]> http://pmb.berkeley.edu/news/lemaux-lab-be-featured-kqed-documentary/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/11/16/open-letter-from-uc-berkeley-dean-to-albany-community/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/11/16/open-letter-from-uc-berkeley-dean-to-albany-community/#comments Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:00:28 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33480 In a new open letter, the dean of the College of Natural Resources provides an update concerning activity on the growing grounds of the Gill Tract.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/11/16/open-letter-from-uc-berkeley-dean-to-albany-community/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/19/cnr-dean-outlines-new-plans-for-gill-tract/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/19/cnr-dean-outlines-new-plans-for-gill-tract/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:37:07 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33006 At Tuesday's Albany City Council meeting, Keith Gilless, dean of the College of Natural Resources, presented a progress report on new academic programs related to diversified farming, and their potential impact on the Gill Tract growing grounds.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/19/cnr-dean-outlines-new-plans-for-gill-tract/feed/ 0 http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2012/09/wildfire_smoke_linked_to_lower.php#more http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2012/09/wildfire_smoke_linked_to_lower.php#more#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:12:29 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32924 Research by UC Berkeley scientists has found that women who were pregnant during Southern California's big 2003 wildfire season and were exposed to smoke bore babies with slightly lower birth weights. ]]> http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2012/09/wildfire_smoke_linked_to_lower.php#more/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/25/university-official-visit-gill-tract-to-speak-with-protesters/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/25/university-official-visit-gill-tract-to-speak-with-protesters/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:08:01 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=29194 J. Keith Gilless, dean of UC Berkeley's College of Natural Resources, spent more than an hour Tuesday in dialogue with protesters who are encamped illegally on the Gill Tract in Albany. He provided facts and information concerning the site and its research uses.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/25/university-official-visit-gill-tract-to-speak-with-protesters/feed/ 0 http://cnr.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2011/08/john_helm_emeritus_professor_o.php http://cnr.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2011/08/john_helm_emeritus_professor_o.php#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:31:30 +0000 Steve McConnell http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=16212 John Helms, professor emeritus of silviculture in the College of Natural Resources, has won the 2011 Gifford Pinchot medal from the Society of American Foresters for his decades of research and teaching.]]> http://cnr.berkeley.edu/blogs/news/2011/08/john_helm_emeritus_professor_o.php/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/03/17/surgeon-general/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/03/17/surgeon-general/#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:59:09 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=7542 U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin came to Berkeley's Alumni House Thursday to deliver her “vision of a healthy and fit nation.” But the day’s most burning health question, at least in the minds of the news media gathered at her subsequent press conference, was this: Should people be worried about radiation from Japan’s ongoing nuclear crisis? Her answer: "No."]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/03/17/surgeon-general/feed/ 0