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Story Archives for 2003

December
03 Dec - Holiday shopping in the land of blue and gold
03 Dec - The Berkeley Book List: hot off the virtual press
03 Dec - News briefs
03 Dec - The ‘Queen of Dwinelle’ steps down
03 Dec - Letter to the editor
03 Dec - A chair — and accolades galore — for Judith Gruber
03 Dec - Ron Gronsky: leading by anticipation
03 Dec - Regents wrestle with admissions, budgetary issues
03 Dec - Awards
03 Dec - Wide net cast in search for next chancellor
03 Dec - Alice Sebold waxes prosaic
03 Dec - Planning advances for complex to adjoin campus
November
20 Nov - Obituaries: T.Y. Lin, James Cason
20 Nov - The new Stanley: nowhere to go but up
20 Nov - Budget tops list of issues at Senate meeting
20 Nov - An admissions briefing for the media
20 Nov - Amy Goodman to deliver annual Mario Savio Lecture
20 Nov - Awards
20 Nov - ‘Dark matter’ forms a ghost universe that mirrors the observable one, says Berkeley astronomy professor
20 Nov - Chung-Pei Ma’s far from unbalanced life
20 Nov - News briefs
20 Nov - Not your ordinary high-school field trip
20 Nov - Letter to the editor
20 Nov - Big Game planners sweat the small stuff
19 Nov - Mark Twain: long gone, but still prolific
12 Nov - Awards
12 Nov - From Bauer to Zarkin, outstanding staff get their due
12 Nov - Campus partisans tussle before the Big Game
12 Nov - Charitable Campaign benefits Berkeley
12 Nov - News briefs
12 Nov - U.S. loses thousands of jobs monthly
12 Nov - An incentive to retire?
05 Nov - Accurate mapping of plant genome opens up new avenues of research
05 Nov - Six Berkeley scientists named 2003 AAAS fellows
05 Nov - In Yellowstone National Park, wolves’ dining habits (they do enjoy their naps) provide leftover meat for other animals
05 Nov - Study group to report on admissions issues
05 Nov - The longer it rains, the safer the roadway?
05 Nov - News briefs
05 Nov - A meeting of the minds
05 Nov - Fighting invasives, one root ball at a time
05 Nov - Campus efforts to aid and comfort SoCal fire victims
05 Nov - Brown at 50: Rekindling the spirit
05 Nov - Trackin’ the vibes at Stanley
05 Nov - Federal, academic scientists partner to streamline environmental research
05 Nov - Obituary: Sally Bellows
05 Nov - A bit of the West End in west campus
05 Nov - UCTV has programs of campus interest to view in November
October
29 Oct - The proof is in the plotting
29 Oct - For four decades, EOP has sent students a message of support
29 Oct - Berkeley’s brain behind addiction research
29 Oct - Retiree employment pilot program takes off
29 Oct - News briefs
29 Oct - Realignment of functions will lead to a more effective campus
29 Oct - Charity begins, and nearly ends, with a handful of hospitals
29 Oct - Bay Area car-sharing program spurring travel changes
29 Oct - Obituaries: Roger Montgomery, Frank Pitelka
29 Oct - Awards
29 Oct - Preservation of historic landscapes is the focus of campus talk
29 Oct - Boalt lecturer’s first novel blends maternal fears with a hard-nosed view of America’s drug war
29 Oct - Historic photos rescued after 50 years in the Time-Life vaults
29 Oct - 2003 Lange winner’s pix on display
22 Oct - All the news that fits, they print
22 Oct - News briefs
22 Oct - Berkeley to partner in cyber-defense research
22 Oct - A quirky, comfortable chunk of Quercus
22 Oct - Campus recovers $40K for Strawberry Creek damages
22 Oct - Recall symposium stimulates academic proposals
22 Oct - Dam foes learn from their defeats
22 Oct - Awards
22 Oct - Obituary: Charles Wilke
22 Oct - Research roundup
22 Oct - It’s Open Enrollment season again for faculty and staff
22 Oct - Open Enrollment presentations for active faculty and staff employees
22 Oct - ‘Weirdly optimistic’: Michael Moore at the Greek
22 Oct - Chancellor’s staff address is met with frustration, skepticism by some
16 Oct - News briefs
16 Oct - Nobelist James Watson headlines DNA event
16 Oct - Work/life policies and programs are of keen concern on campus
16 Oct - The seventh annual campus spoonbill migration
16 Oct - Publications
16 Oct - Occupying 'The Rock'
15 Oct - Research roundup
15 Oct - Occupying ‘The Rock’
15 Oct - Study: Recall news coverage focused primarily on Schwarzenegger
15 Oct - U.S. has higher birth, marriage rates than Western Europe
15 Oct - Nobelist James Watson headlines DNA event
15 Oct - So much for those golden sunsets
15 Oct - Haas questions received wisdom on fiscal crisis
15 Oct - Economic stress in Germany linked to decline in male births
15 Oct - How to get a new department chair
15 Oct - The builders of Berkeley
08 Oct - Obituary: Russell De Valois
08 Oct - A prototypical professor
08 Oct - Awards
08 Oct - Well rested, well appreciated
08 Oct - A conversation with UC’s new president
08 Oct - Accreditation team set to visit Berkeley
08 Oct - Hey, Culligan man – you’re fired!
08 Oct - News briefs
08 Oct - Campus responds to L.A. Times reporting
08 Oct - Mother and daughter take on Berkeley
08 Oct - New treatment for Sudden Oak Death approved
08 Oct - Images from a weeklong weekend
01 Oct - A permanent home for British studies
01 Oct - The Class of ’68 takes a look back
01 Oct - Fall Arts Fest expands its reach
01 Oct - In Gene(sis), science and art converge
01 Oct - A new focus for environmental activism? Here’s the dirt . . .
01 Oct - Prof’s dirty work causes media frenzy
01 Oct - Architecture turns 100:
01 Oct - News briefs
01 Oct - ‘Wurster Redux’ celebrates CED milestones
01 Oct - Chancellor says he’ll step down next June
01 Oct - ‘We need to keep going full speed ahead’
September
24 Sep - University/Community partnerships recognized
24 Sep - Takeoff on a takeoff of a classic
24 Sep - Photography students take a look at the city
24 Sep - Obituary: Donald Dahlsten
24 Sep - Identity Resources website offers guidelines for designers and editors
24 Sep - News briefs
24 Sep - A pause to remember those no longer with us
24 Sep - Long-serving campus staffers honored
24 Sep - They may not win...
24 Sep - Focus on faculty-student interaction
24 Sep - Homecoming gets even livelier
24 Sep - Undergrads prosper on the Potomac
24 Sep - Regents review 2004-05 budget options
17 Sep - Berkeley survey finds business support for reform of health-insurance coverage
17 Sep - Jesse's get-out-the-vote effort
17 Sep - A Greek tragedy graces the Greek
17 Sep - The Greek Theatre at 100
17 Sep - News briefs
17 Sep - Activist Dolores Huerta appointed to UC Board of Regents
17 Sep - L&S honors seven faculty for distinguished service to undergrads
17 Sep - Annual ceremony to honor the past year’s deceased has become a new campus tradition
17 Sep - Obituary: Sherry Buckley
17 Sep - Students initiate effort to combat harassment and hate on campus
17 Sep - UC voting expert in spotlight
10 Sep - News briefs
10 Sep - Campus opticians to provide free vision screening for primary-school students
10 Sep - Stars rich in heavy metals tend to harbor planets, Berkeley astronomers report
10 Sep - Special ‘budget edition’ of Bear in Mind now on web
10 Sep - ETS launches new Multimedia Services team
10 Sep - UC President reflects on his legacy during Davis visit
10 Sep - Pacific Film Archive to screen French feminist’s works
10 Sep - Obituaries: Donald Davidson and Frank Falkner
10 Sep - Publications
10 Sep - Sister act
10 Sep - Vice Provost Webster to retire at year’s end
10 Sep - The Academic Senate’s mysterious little men
09 Sep - Secretary of State Kevin Shelley visits Berkeley
03 Sep - Obituaries: Werner Goldsmith, John Ogbu
03 Sep - Labor-movement photo exhibit
03 Sep - News briefs
03 Sep - What will Prop. 54 do?
03 Sep - LRDP: Crafting a guiding vision
03 Sep - LRDP process starts with public input
August
27 Aug - Welcome Week 2003 — and what a week it was!
27 Aug - Vo-do-de-oh-devoted to the WFC
27 Aug - New profs take careful notes at orientation
27 Aug - If a tree falls on the campus, will anyone replace it?
27 Aug - It’s tempting to label IGS website ‘Total Recall’
27 Aug - News briefs
27 Aug - How and when to bring the Hubble home
27 Aug - Shaggy doggerel, pilfered art: It’s Lunch Poems
27 Aug - Second-parent adoptions are valid, state court says
27 Aug - Rushing to reclaim, repurpose, and Re-USE
27 Aug - ROHO makes hidden voices heard
20 Aug - Academic-freedom policy revisited
20 Aug - Nurturing the undergrad experience
20 Aug - Sexual-harassment training options increase
20 Aug - OK, cart #7 ... take two steps left.
20 Aug - Online tutorial is a concise guide to harassment basics
20 Aug - Chancellor’s annual ‘summer letter
20 Aug - New website links you to UC goods and services
20 Aug - Campus publishes draft SARS response plan on the Web
20 Aug - Publications
20 Aug - Fiddling around on campus
20 Aug - BAM/PFA’s new website brimming
20 Aug - A fond adieu to one of our own
20 Aug - Smooth eTraveling ahead
20 Aug - Mark Twain Project’s first electronic foray is a new volume of the author’s letters
20 Aug - New motion filed in dispute over UC’s retirement investments data
20 Aug - News briefs
20 Aug - Fuel-economy standards are still the best green bet
20 Aug - Vitamin C shown to reduce oxidative stress in those exposed to second-hand tobacco smoke
20 Aug - 2003 Cal Football Schedule
20 Aug - Plastic fantastic ground cover
15 Aug - Caltopia gears up for its fall kickoff
14 Aug - Publications
13 Aug - The bells are ringing … and ringing …
13 Aug - News briefs
13 Aug - Research roundup
13 Aug - The best to you each morning?
13 Aug - Awards
13 Aug - Obituary: Kenneth Weisinger
13 Aug - UC suffers deep cuts in final state budget
13 Aug - Berkeley researchers use wireless sensors to study redwoods
13 Aug - So excellent a survey, they’re conducting it again
13 Aug - French cuisine, Tennessee Williams … and no homework!
13 Aug - Bancroft’s Images of Native Americans online exhibit honored
July
23 Jul - Regents vote, reluctantly, to boost student fees
23 Jul - Picking up the pieces
23 Jul - eRecruit to transform campus employment process
23 Jul - Regents adopt landmark green-building policy, clean-energy standard
23 Jul - News briefs
23 Jul - CDOP funding for staff renewed
23 Jul - Awards bestowed for workplace success stories
23 Jul - AileyCamp’s second annual performance scheduled
23 Jul - COrE: Partnering for change
23 Jul - Biotechnology is one key to feeding the world, says Nobelist Norman Borlaug
23 Jul - It’s like magic! (And that’s just the fingers...)
23 Jul - Isomerized quinides, with room for cream, please
23 Jul - In the Bancroft’s archives, the Beats go on
23 Jul - Prof has a beef with McDonald’s antibiotics announcement
23 Jul - Obituaries: Stafford Q. Johnson, Joseph A. Pask, Michael J. Koll
23 Jul - Dispatches from afar: Berkeley students report in from the field
14 Jul - A true “Blu” employee portal
14 Jul - eRecruit transforms campus employment process
June
05 Jun - Words of wisdom
05 Jun - Forces that shape the bay
05 Jun - Supervisors honored for ‘keeping it light’
05 Jun - Publications
05 Jun - A ‘field of dreams’ for the health sciences
05 Jun - Bolder (if not bigger) than Blockbuster
05 Jun - Customer satisfaction is at the core of OHR’s reorganization
05 Jun - Class of 2003 faces a tough job market
05 Jun - New AVC’s focus is campus/industry cooperation
05 Jun - Online-giving site dials up donor outreach
05 Jun - New law aids computer security
05 Jun - Awards
05 Jun - Cal’s ‘unofficial’ summer reading list
05 Jun - News briefs
May
07 May - Graduates ‘sent up mighty cheer’ for T.R.
07 May - Seniors in ‘giving spirit’
07 May - Top undergrad scholar adds University Medal to his resume
07 May - Let the speechifying commence!
07 May - Post-9/11 laws source of campus delays, unease
07 May - SARS caution warrants new policies
07 May - Physics department in good shape, despite headlines
07 May - Animal planet
07 May - News briefs
07 May - Kudos for community servants in our midst
07 May - Agreement reached on new contract for CUE employees
07 May - Lifting the fog of war: chaos and lawlessness in Iraq
April
30 Apr - News briefs
30 Apr - A month of musical memories
30 Apr - A most unconventional convention
30 Apr - A decade of reading, writing, and helping
30 Apr - Bush’s worldview ‘leaves war inevitable,’ Kucinich says
30 Apr - Awards
30 Apr - Let’s do (art at) lunch
30 Apr - Logging debate is ‘bogus,’ nation’s chief forester declares
30 Apr - Three Berkeley faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences
30 Apr - There’s no monopoly on Mideast emotion
30 Apr - Zero tolerance for intolerance
30 Apr - Making academia more family-friendly
23 Apr - News briefs
23 Apr - Geography professor awarded Guggenheim fellowship
23 Apr - This Portnoy has no complaints
23 Apr - Why do people turn out the way they do?
23 Apr - Fall 2003 freshman class is ‘strongest ever’
23 Apr - Cal’s varsity rugby team smashes records
23 Apr - SISC making progress on new job structure
23 Apr - Grading the President
23 Apr - After the fall, a cultural calamity
23 Apr - Staying fit and healthy after 50 ... or 60 ... or 70 ... or 80 ... or...
23 Apr - Musing each other
23 Apr - Poked, prodded, and now honored by their peers
23 Apr - Distinguished Teacher: Martha Olney
23 Apr - Distinguished Teacher: Glynda Hull
23 Apr - Distinguished Teacher: Jeffrey Reimer
16 Apr - News briefs
16 Apr - One more attempt to clear his name
16 Apr - Faculty Research Lecture, April 23, to address traffic in human organs
16 Apr - Letter to the editor
16 Apr - Haas Awards are a Cal Day highlight
16 Apr - Berkeley Nobelists’ flags fly high
16 Apr - Spotlight on SARS
16 Apr - Hearst Museum’s Plato is the real deal
16 Apr - Publications
16 Apr - A campus crawling with kids
16 Apr - Paul Kos Retrospective at BAM
16 Apr - Imagining the future
09 Apr - Snapshots of Berkeley students in a time of war
09 Apr - Awards
09 Apr - Website makes it easy to hire a Cal student
09 Apr - Beyond the mainstream
09 Apr - E-mail ‘sigs’ a window on reality — your own
09 Apr - Research Roundup
09 Apr - The fall of Stanley Hall
09 Apr - What’s the perfect Cal Day schedule?
09 Apr - New website highlights community service
09 Apr - State education official pulls few punches
09 Apr - Campus, city generate cost-sharing ideas
09 Apr - News briefs
09 Apr - The budget picture so far
09 Apr - START program would yield salary savings
02 Apr - Spaces Sciences Lab to build satellite probes
02 Apr - Bracing for a flood of Kurdish refugees
02 Apr - Got those work/life blues?
02 Apr - Obituaries: Ernst Haas, Sheldon Messinger
02 Apr - Recalling the Black Panthers’ East Bay heyday
02 Apr - Black Panther films, lectures
02 Apr - A Bill of Rights for NAFTA?
02 Apr - News briefs
02 Apr - Hoffer Prize judges name 2003 winners
02 Apr - Two Faculty Research Lectures in April
02 Apr - Cal Day’s multiple melodious offerings
02 Apr - Where blue-collars and physics scholars meet
March
19 Mar - News briefs
19 Mar - Cool, calm, collected
19 Mar - Putting the boot in
19 Mar - A view from the trenches
19 Mar - You’ve got …… nothing?
19 Mar - North Koreans open to dialogue, say organizers of Berkeley conference
19 Mar - Berdahl speaks out on U.S. foreign policy
19 Mar - Cal Day: Learning and a lot of fun
19 Mar - Obituary: Daniel B. Luten, Jr.
19 Mar - Upstairs, downstairs
19 Mar - Documentarian Frederick Wiseman in residence at Townsend Center
19 Mar - ‘World in a Frame’: Photo images from the exploration age
12 Mar - New online platform for purchasing office supplies
12 Mar - Obituaries
12 Mar - The transfer-student experience
12 Mar - Boalt Hall’s death row defenders
12 Mar - Was justice served?
12 Mar - A psychologist’s quest
12 Mar - The king of the klezmer collectors
12 Mar - News briefs
12 Mar - Berdahl: ‘Let us go forward with active debate’
12 Mar - ‘The wrong direction’: Health-policy expert decries Bush’s Medicare proposal
12 Mar - Planning a ‘City of Learning’
05 Mar - Unmaking the grade
05 Mar - News briefs
05 Mar - The Berkeleyan, and its readers, make waves
05 Mar - Preventing the fire next time
05 Mar - ‘Freedom is the most precious thing…’
05 Mar - New findings may help improve brain-imaging tools
05 Mar - Hassle-free motoring comes to campus
05 Mar - It’s a wrap. And a bathmat, and a hotpad, and a turban …
05 Mar - Photography exhibit at the Townsend Center for the Humanities
05 Mar - Awards
05 Mar - Office of Radiation Safety reunites with EH&S
05 Mar - Publications
February
26 Feb - Bubba and Dubya meet Sir Isaac
26 Feb - News briefs
26 Feb - Creating a refuge for Berkeley High’s ‘fragile’ girls
26 Feb - Before a packed house, Said has his say
26 Feb - Awards
26 Feb - Obituaries: David Feller, Marvin Rosenberg
26 Feb - Library offers two plump prizes for undergraduates
26 Feb - Helping career dreams come true
26 Feb - Unsung, ‘veiled’ Garvey takes center stage
26 Feb - An orb by any other name . . .
19 Feb - News briefs
19 Feb - Work on new Stanley Hall gets underway
19 Feb - Akerlof calls Bush economic stimulus plan ‘horrendous’
19 Feb - Working with budget cuts
19 Feb - Drake’s Plate hoax confirmed
19 Feb - Berkeley to Oxford: the Rhodes not often taken
13 Feb - UC kids’ summer programs 2003
12 Feb - Obituaries
12 Feb - News briefs
12 Feb - The décor is muted, but the food is not
12 Feb - Researchers see twin benefits in bioengineered cotton
12 Feb - Silent films with a difference
12 Feb - A way to tell one spore from another
12 Feb - Sperm, like people, slow down with age
12 Feb - Professor and his dogs have the right chemistry
12 Feb - Half a dozen hearts in the right place
12 Feb - Christie McCarthy
12 Feb - Veronica Lopez
12 Feb - Ann Juell
12 Feb - Nina Hahn
12 Feb - Teresa Costantinidis
12 Feb - Evelyn Bonito
05 Feb - Faculty diversity: the road ahead
05 Feb - The past decade — at a glance
05 Feb - Turning things around
05 Feb - What’s in motion?
05 Feb - ‘Cluster’ hiring may be boon to minority scholars
05 Feb - ‘Virtual Sather Gate’ set to launch
05 Feb - Berdahl’s budget message to campus
05 Feb - Core principles will guide the budget-planning process
05 Feb - News briefs
05 Feb - Campus journalists joust over Iraq
05 Feb - Obituaries
05 Feb - No time at the Apollo
05 Feb - Documenting a world of untold stories
January
29 Jan - Monologues and dialogues fill online radio hour
29 Jan - Challenges — present and projected
29 Jan - News briefs
29 Jan - Getting set to commemorate ‘the Big One’
29 Jan - Masked masks and whipping posts
29 Jan - Closing the book on the Novartis deal?
29 Jan - Safety’s siren song
29 Jan - Three ways to get emergency information fast
29 Jan - New tracking system keeps tabs on foreign students and scholars
29 Jan - Delayed visas make it imperative to plan ahead for foreign visitors
29 Jan - Putting the ‘V’ in Valentine’s Day
29 Jan - Edward Said to speak on campus
29 Jan - Awards
29 Jan - The comfort of your (and everyone else’s) den
22 Jan - The wise – digitized
22 Jan - For Love of the Automobile: Looking Back into the History of Our Desires
22 Jan - Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters Under Lenin and Stalin
22 Jan - A Skeptic Among Scholars: August Frugé on University Publishing
22 Jan - Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature
22 Jan - Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism
22 Jan - News briefs
22 Jan - Getting smart, getting out – in record time
22 Jan - One in a million? Tell it to the Feds. . .
22 Jan - Wetlands clean selenium from agricultural runoff
22 Jan - Healthcare system found to be failing millions of Americans
22 Jan - Awards
22 Jan - How to get things done on campus
22 Jan - Parking & Transportation relocates to Kittredge St.
22 Jan - Hunting the mushrooms in our midst
22 Jan - ‘Prepare for the period ahead’
22 Jan - A conversation with Catherine Koshland
16 Jan - News briefs
16 Jan - Free workouts at campus gym
16 Jan - Career-counseling funds are now available through CDOP program
16 Jan - Researchers crack Internet security system
16 Jan - Learn about leadership
16 Jan - Network journalist is new AVC for public affairs
16 Jan - Library debuts ‘Gay Bears’ website
15 Jan - Awards
15 Jan - Berkeley featured in PBS coverage of part-time lecturers
15 Jan - Obituaries
15 Jan - A league of their own
15 Jan - A college behind bars
15 Jan - UC's budget woes grow for 2003-04
15 Jan - Residential, student-services staff set to move into new digs