http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Sat, 25 May 2013 00:34:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/11/usaid-chief-lauds-blum-center-as-a-model-in-search-for-global-solutions/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/11/usaid-chief-lauds-blum-center-as-a-model-in-search-for-global-solutions/#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:50:13 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33204 USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah visited campus and encouraged students to join the search for open source solutions to pressing global problems.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/11/usaid-chief-lauds-blum-center-as-a-model-in-search-for-global-solutions/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/12/bullying/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/12/bullying/#comments Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:00:49 +0000 Yasmin Anwar http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32912 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/12/bullying/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/10/rbc-community-meet/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/10/rbc-community-meet/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:17:57 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32567 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/10/rbc-community-meet/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/08/01/state-taps-uc-researchers-for-expertise-on-climate-change-impact/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/08/01/state-taps-uc-researchers-for-expertise-on-climate-change-impact/#comments Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:11:46 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32547 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/08/01/state-taps-uc-researchers-for-expertise-on-climate-change-impact/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/19/bakar-fellows/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/19/bakar-fellows/#comments Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:00:43 +0000 Wallace Ravven http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32429 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. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/19/bakar-fellows/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/04/sylvia-allegretto-cwed/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/04/sylvia-allegretto-cwed/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 16:00:16 +0000 Barry Bergman http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=28430 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/04/sylvia-allegretto-cwed/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/17/two-uc-berkeley-faculty-elected-to-iom/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/17/two-uc-berkeley-faculty-elected-to-iom/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:02:01 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=18117 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. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/17/two-uc-berkeley-faculty-elected-to-iom/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/17/barbara-abrams-qa/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/17/barbara-abrams-qa/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:01:41 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=18151 Professor Barbara Abrams, newly elected to the Institute of Medicine, engages in a Q&A about her research on prenatal nutrition.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/17/barbara-abrams-qa/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/27/chancellor-whitehouse/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/27/chancellor-whitehouse/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:53:04 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=16982 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."]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/27/chancellor-whitehouse/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/08/22/issi-merger/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/08/22/issi-merger/#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:30:50 +0000 Barry Bergman http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=15049 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/08/22/issi-merger/feed/ 0 http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110803/full/476022a.html http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110803/full/476022a.html#comments Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:38:25 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=14506 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.]]> http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110803/full/476022a.html/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/29/berkeley-in-the-world-student-blog-goes-live/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/29/berkeley-in-the-world-student-blog-goes-live/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:51:27 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=13667 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/29/berkeley-in-the-world-student-blog-goes-live/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/03/18/syphilis/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/03/18/syphilis/#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:48:23 +0000 Barry Bergman http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=7717 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/03/18/syphilis/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/02/01/hotel/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/02/01/hotel/#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:34:57 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=5205 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. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/02/01/hotel/feed/ 0