http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Sat, 18 May 2013 20:48:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/01/two-faculty-named-guggenheim-fellows-for-2013/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/01/two-faculty-named-guggenheim-fellows-for-2013/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 22:23:37 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34587 Two UC Berkeley faculty — improvising pianist and composer Myra Melford and English literature scholar Joanna Picciotto — have been named Guggenheim fellows for 2013, an award conferred for both achievement and promise.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/01/two-faculty-named-guggenheim-fellows-for-2013/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