http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:00:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 https://inews.berkeley.edu/articles/June2013/AirBears2GoesLive https://inews.berkeley.edu/articles/June2013/AirBears2GoesLive#comments Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:17:27 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=35058 On Monday, June 10, IST Telecommunications deploys a new campuswide wireless network service, which aims to provide a simplified and improved user experience for connectivity to the campus wifi network.]]> https://inews.berkeley.edu/articles/June2013/AirBears2GoesLive/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/21/architecture-student-among-11-us-recipients-of-new-sustainability-fellowship/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/21/architecture-student-among-11-us-recipients-of-new-sustainability-fellowship/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 22:30:00 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34835 By updating and expanding California’s utility-allowance calculator, Berkeley grad student Antony Kim hopes to make sustainable architecture more available to low-cost housing developers. He and his faculty mentor, Galen Cranz, are winners of the first-ever Schmidt-MacArthur Fellowship, which encourages the design of sustainable products and processes.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/21/architecture-student-among-11-us-recipients-of-new-sustainability-fellowship/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/26/psychologists-emoticons/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/26/psychologists-emoticons/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:30:19 +0000 Yasmin Anwar http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34550 Emoticons not expressing the full complexity of your feelings? UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner and his team at the campus’s Greater Good Science Center can help. They have assisted in creating a nuanced Facebook sticker package based on a character named “Finch,” inspired by scientist Charles Darwin.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/26/psychologists-emoticons/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/21/brainsearchparty/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/21/brainsearchparty/#comments Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:00:54 +0000 Yasmin Anwar http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34465 A contact lens on the bathroom floor, an escaped hamster in the backyard, a car key in a bed of gravel: How are we able to focus so sharply to find that proverbial needle in a haystack? UC Berkeley scientists have discovered that when we embark on a targeted search, various visual and non-visual regions of the brain mobilize to track down a person, animal or thing.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/21/brainsearchparty/feed/ 0 http://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/article/haas-faculty-launch-crowdfunding-campaign-solar-light-research-uganda http://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/article/haas-faculty-launch-crowdfunding-campaign-solar-light-research-uganda#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:00:40 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34491 Three Haas professors are bypassing traditional grants and going straight to crowdfunding to raise money for a study on how to get people in rural Uganda to replace dangerous kerosene lanterns with life-changing solar lamps.]]> http://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/article/haas-faculty-launch-crowdfunding-campaign-solar-light-research-uganda/feed/ 0 http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/news/20130403brainwaveauthentication http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/news/20130403brainwaveauthentication#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:48:06 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34331 Instead of typing your password, in the future you may only have to think your password, according to School of Information researchers. ]]> http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/news/20130403brainwaveauthentication/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/03/13/energy-tech-workshop/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/03/13/energy-tech-workshop/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:46:27 +0000 Steve Hockensmith http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34131 Just three miles from the site of the future Richmond Bay Campus, the Northern California Workshop for Energy Technologies underscored the need for partnerships, and featured a keynote address from former Michigan governor (and current Berkeley faculty member) Jennifer Granholm.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/03/13/energy-tech-workshop/feed/ 0 http://www.gizmag.com/dreambox-3d-printing-vending-machine/26571/ http://www.gizmag.com/dreambox-3d-printing-vending-machine/26571/#comments Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:45:56 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34176 Dreambox founding members David Pastewka, Richard Berwick and Will Drevno met at a mobile-application development class at Berkeley in 2011. Finding it difficult to get quick delivery of 3D-printed creations from online vendors, they came up with the idea of creating a network of local, accessible, automated 3D-printing vending machines. ]]> http://www.gizmag.com/dreambox-3d-printing-vending-machine/26571/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/02/11/ancientlanguages/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/02/11/ancientlanguages/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:00:15 +0000 Yasmin Anwar http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34003 Ancient languages hold a treasure trove of information about the culture, politics and commerce of millennia past. Yet, reconstructing them to reveal clues into human history can require decades of painstaking work. Now, UC Berkeley scientists have created an automated “time machine,” of sorts, that will greatly accelerate and improve the process of reconstructing hundreds of ancestral languages.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/02/11/ancientlanguages/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/20/larry-conrad-named-new-chief-information-officer/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/20/larry-conrad-named-new-chief-information-officer/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:42:47 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33703 In a CalMessage, John Wilton, vice chancellor for administration and finance, and George Breslauer, executive vice chancellor and provost, announce the appointment of Larry Conrad as Berkeley’s next associate vice chancellor for information technology and chief information officer.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/20/larry-conrad-named-new-chief-information-officer/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/19/semanticspace/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/19/semanticspace/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:00:47 +0000 Yasmin Anwar http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33707 Our eyes may be our window to the world, but how do we make sense of the thousands of images that flood our retinas each day? UC Berkeley scientists have found that the brain is wired to put in order all the categories of objects and actions that we see. They have created the first interactive map of how the brain organizes these groupings.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/19/semanticspace/feed/ 0 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/2012/09/11/laser-discoverer-charles-townes-to-receive-first-golden-goose-award/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/11/laser-discoverer-charles-townes-to-receive-first-golden-goose-award/#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:39:12 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32897 Charles Townes, who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for invention of the laser, will receive an inaugural Golden Goose Award Sept. 13. Presented for the first time this year, the prize honors scientists who received federal funding for seemingly arcane work that turned out to have revolutionary applications.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/11/laser-discoverer-charles-townes-to-receive-first-golden-goose-award/feed/ 0 http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/28143 http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/28143#comments Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:00:19 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32600 Campus was honored with a Sautter award for Kuali Ready, a Web application that helps departments create a continuity plan, which is used to resume critical operations as soon as possible after a disruptive event.]]> http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/28143/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/06/27/uc-berkeley-installing-first-co2-sensor-network-in-oakland/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/06/27/uc-berkeley-installing-first-co2-sensor-network-in-oakland/#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:20:39 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=28826 Using inexpensive detectors that can fit inside a shoebox, UC Berkeley chemists are installing carbon dioxide and other air pollution sensors in 40 sites around Oakland to explore how detailed, neighborhood-by-neighborhood information can help communities monitor greenhouse gas and other harmful emissions.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/06/27/uc-berkeley-installing-first-co2-sensor-network-in-oakland/feed/ 0 http://inews.berkeley.edu/articles/Jul-Aug2012/UCCSC-countdown http://inews.berkeley.edu/articles/Jul-Aug2012/UCCSC-countdown#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:05:38 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32289 UC Berkeley will host the annual UC Computing Services Conference (UCCSC) at Clark Kerr campus, Aug. 5-7. Early registration ends July 15, after which the fee rises from $150 to $200; registration is on a space-available basis. ]]> http://inews.berkeley.edu/articles/Jul-Aug2012/UCCSC-countdown/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/06/21/book-it-schedule-a-flash-from-the-golden-gate-bridges-solar-beacon/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/06/21/book-it-schedule-a-flash-from-the-golden-gate-bridges-solar-beacon/#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:49:16 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32270 Through the website solarbeacon.org, anyone can now schedule Solar Beacon - heliostats mounted on the Golden Gate Bridge by UC Berkeley space scientists - to flash sunlight in their eyes, like the glint of the sun off a car's mirror.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/06/21/book-it-schedule-a-flash-from-the-golden-gate-bridges-solar-beacon/feed/ 0 http://research.universityofcalifornia.edu/stories/2012/06/printable-batteries.html http://research.universityofcalifornia.edu/stories/2012/06/printable-batteries.html#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:00:41 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32267 With moral and monetary support from UC Berkeley and UC's Office of the President, two UC grads - Christine Ho and Brooks Kincaid - have formed a company to create 'printable' batteries that are efficient, environmentally friendly and could be made as small as a postage stamp. The start-up is a tribute to the campus's entrepreneurial environment and its innovative students.]]> http://research.universityofcalifornia.edu/stories/2012/06/printable-batteries.html/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/05/13/electricity-from-viruses/ http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/05/13/electricity-from-viruses/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 17:18:42 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=30485 Scientists at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab have harnessed the electricity-generating capabilities of viruses, a development that could lead to pocket power plants for mobile devices. When researchers applied pressure to a generator made up of engineered M13 bacteria-eating viruses, they were able to produce enough current to equal a quarter the voltage of a triple A battery.]]> http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/05/13/electricity-from-viruses/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/09/floating-sensors-track-delta-water-flow/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/09/floating-sensors-track-delta-water-flow/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 18:55:33 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=28077 A fleet of 100 floating robots took a trip down the Sacramento River on May 9, in a field test organized by UC Berkeley engineers. The devices, equipped with GPS-enabled smartphones, demonstrated the next generation of water-monitoring technology, promising to transform the way government agencies track one of the state's most precious resources. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/09/floating-sensors-track-delta-water-flow/feed/ 0