http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:37:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/31/warren-winkelstein-dies-at-90/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/31/warren-winkelstein-dies-at-90/#comments Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:05:38 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32457 Dr. Warren Winkelstein Jr., pioneering epidemiologist and former dean of UC Berkeley's School of Public Health, died Sunday, July 22. He was 90. His career spanned six decades and included seminal contributions to the understanding of the transmission of HIV/AIDS, how air pollution affects health, heart disease in women and other health issues. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/31/warren-winkelstein-dies-at-90/feed/ 0 http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/04/-outbreak-the-game.html?ref=hp http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/04/-outbreak-the-game.html?ref=hp#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:51:15 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=27972 Researchers have put a new twist on the game of tag by having players pass notes around to "infect" each other. The game, developed by Steve Bellan, a UC Berkeley ecologist, and Juliet Pulliam, a University of Florida biologist, is proving to be a popular tool for helping epidemiologists study outbreaks of infectious diseases like cholera, AIDS and malaria. ]]> http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/04/-outbreak-the-game.html?ref=hp/feed/ 0