http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Thu, 23 May 2013 20:03:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/04/global-engagement-office/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/04/global-engagement-office/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:29:41 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33599 In a CalMessage, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer announced that Professor Ron Gronsky will lead a new, centralized office to "facilitate and coordinate the campus’s international initiatives and to foster coherence among them."]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/04/global-engagement-office/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/21/lost-passport-reunion/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/21/lost-passport-reunion/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:27:45 +0000 Yasmin Anwar http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25563 Adventurous UC Berkeley alumna Betty Werther was finally reunited with her first-ever passport on Saturday (Feb. 18) in Paris. Portuguese medical student Nuno Fonseca, who found it last summer at a flea market, hand-delivered the passport to Werther, along with a bouquet of flowers and a red scarf knitted by his 90-year-old great aunt. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/21/lost-passport-reunion/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/08/on-the-road/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/08/on-the-road/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:30:02 +0000 Yasmin Anwar http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24839 An article about a 1950 passport found at a Parisian flea market has inspired Betty Werther – the passport’s owner, an American expatriate and ’49 Cal alumna – to write about her youthful adventures in New York, Berkeley, Paris and the Middle East. Read excerpts from Werther’s ad hoc travel memoir.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/08/on-the-road/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/06/lost-passport/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/06/lost-passport/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:00:39 +0000 Yasmin Anwar http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24460 Betty Werther made a beeline for Paris after graduating from UC Berkeley in 1949 and embarked on a life of travel, romance and adventure. Somewhere along the road, she lost her passport. More than 60 years later, a young Portuguese medical student is heading to Paris to return the tattered, 1950-issued passport to Werther. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/06/lost-passport/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/07/diversity-budget-drive-berkeleys-international-enrollment/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/07/diversity-budget-drive-berkeleys-international-enrollment/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:33:23 +0000 Roibín Ó hÉochaidh http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=16057 Berkeley’s student body includes an international cohort that enriches the campus far beyond the full-tuition revenues generated by nonresident enrollments.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/07/diversity-budget-drive-berkeleys-international-enrollment/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/07/19/expat-spouses-lost-in-translation/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/07/19/expat-spouses-lost-in-translation/#comments Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:13:26 +0000 Roibín Ó hÉochaidh http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=14111 "Creating a Fulfilling Life in America" is helping the spouses of international scholars, students and researchers adjust to the translocation and build a meaningful new life in the Bay Area.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/07/19/expat-spouses-lost-in-translation/feed/ 0