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Paul Sterzing was still settling in as a Berkeley faculty member when his just-published study – showing nearly half of U.S. adolescents with autism spectrum disorder have been bullied at school – propelled him into the media spotlight.
Tag: research
USAID chief lauds Blum Center as model in search for global solutions
October 11, 2012:
USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah visited campus and encouraged students to join the search for open source solutions to pressing global problems.
For Richmond residents, RBC spells restoration, remediation, renewal
September 10, 2012:
What was described a month ago as “the beginning of a long process of public engagement” took another key step last week, as 100 or so future neighbors of the Richmond Bay Campus got a closer look at just what scientists will be doing when the waterfront facility opens in 2017.
State taps UC researchers for expertise on climate change impacts
August 1, 2012:
Some 15 UC Berkeley researchers were among scores of California experts who submitted papers to the California Energy Commission detailing how climate change will impact the state on the local and regional level.
Bakar Fellows advance commercially promising research
July 19, 2012:
In its first year, the initiative will give research innovations by six early-career UC Berkeley faculty members — including technologies to move prosthetic limbs with the power of thought and to control Argentine ants using their own pheromones — a significant boost from the lab to the market.
From the factory to the academy, tracking ‘real America’
May 4, 2012:
Even for a labor economist, Sylvia Allegretto, a co-founder of UC Berkeley’s Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics, took a distinctly working-class route to a career in academia.
Two UC Berkeley faculty named to Institute of Medicine
October 17, 2011:
Barbara Abrams, professor of epidemiology and of maternal and child health, and Carolyn Bertozzi, professor of chemistry and of molecular and cell biology, have been named to the prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM), one of the highest national honors in the fields of health and medicine.
Q&A: Barbara Abrams on her prenatal-nutrition research
October 17, 2011:
Professor Barbara Abrams, newly elected to the Institute of Medicine, engages in a Q&A about her research on prenatal nutrition.
Birgeneau, at White House, promotes career-life balance for researchers
September 27, 2011:
At a White House panel discussion, Birgeneau said eliminating obstacles to raising families while pursuing research careers is “not only an issue of equity, fairness and justice in our treatment of women, but also a critical issue for the success of our country.”
From cracks in the campus budget, a new research community blooms
August 22, 2011:
Born of financial crisis, Berkeley’s Institute for the Study of Societal Issues has cultivated a more collaborative, community-based approach to social-science research. In the process, a rickety old campus building has been transformed into a place where scholars can do more with less.
Mu-ming Poo nurtures young neuroscientists in Shanghai
August 3, 2011:
Neuroscientist Mu-ming Poo “leads a double life,” according to a piece in the journal Nature. He spends three-quarters of his time doing research on campus, but for the past decade has spent one day a week nurturing budding neuroscientists at the Institute of Neurosciences in Shanghai.
Berkeley in the World blog, featuring students’ posts from around the globe, goes live
June 29, 2011:
On a new NewsCenter blog called Berkeley in the World, Berkeley undergrads and grad students share first-person updates on their varied service-learning, research and humanitarian projects in the field.
Echoes of Mengele and Tuskegee, this time in Guatemala
March 18, 2011:
Medical historian Susan Reverby, who first revealed postwar U.S. government medical experiments on Guatemalan prisoners and mental patients, said the story “fits the trope of a grade-B horror move.” But she warned a Berkeley audience that it’s “too easy” to distance ourselves from those who conducted the research.
57 rooms, killer view, free wi-fi — and a synchrotron
February 1, 2011:
One of the best — and least-known — hotel bargains in town comes with panoramic bay views, free parking and proximity to some of the nation’s premier research labs. Best of all, the Berkeley Lab Guest House, which opened a year ago, is open to anyone with a berkeley.edu or lab email address.
