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| Story Archives for 2008 |
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May | ||
| 08 May | - | On sexual and gender diversity: A statement of principle from Chancellor Birgeneau |
| 08 May | - | Graduation season gets under way: Words of wisdom to flow from faculty and off-campus speakers |
| 08 May | - | Top senior wants ‘to be happy and help others be happy’: Infectious-disease detective and champion of Chinese orphans overcame shyness to achieve her goals |
| 08 May | - | Games aside, the real Olympic challenge is engaging with China: Scholars and artists depict a race against the Asian nation’s rising carbon emissions and unsustainable development |
| 08 May | - | Energy Biosciences Institute funds 49 first-year projects: Work will focus on cellulosic biofuels — their development, production, and impacts |
| 08 May | - | Two learned societies elect five Berkeley faculty: NAS taps Botchan, Rine, and Smoot; APS welcomes Rochberg, Schekman |
| 08 May | - | Berkeley Citations awarded to Cummins, SPH’s Spear |
| 08 May | - | Clean-energy ventures dominate 2008 Global Social Venture Competition |
| 08 May | - | Chemical giant Dow funds 23 sustainability projects: Designed by faculty and students, most of the funded innovations address such global needs as clean drinking water and resource-efficient cookstoves — though one will help grantees market their products |
| 08 May | - | A stove created at Berkeley to help refugee women survive the dinner hour |
| 08 May | - | Research Roundup |
| 08 May | - | Obituary: Cathleen Keller |
| 08 May | - | News Briefs |
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April | ||
| 30 Apr | - | John Cummins puts controversy behind him : As chief of staff to four chancellors, he’shandled protests, hostage crises, bomb threats, evacuations, town-gown disputes, and whatever else came his way |
| 30 Apr | - | Quok Shee on Angel Island: A new book by Haas administrator Robert Barde tells a sorry tale of immigration, American-style |
| 30 Apr | - | Cell-phone video: It’s not just for YouTube anymore : Researchers harness ubiquitous technology to bring medical imaging to underserved populations |
| 30 Apr | - | For a beloved maestro, a very grand finale: Cal Performances’ 2008-09 season will be an extended sendoff for its longtime director, Robert Cole |
| 30 Apr | - | Lawrence Rinder named to helm BAM/PFA: He returns to the museum after a decade away to oversee its new-building campaign and expanded programming |
| 30 Apr | - | A new leader named for university communications: Holmes to play key role in advising chancellor, campus leaders |
| 30 Apr | - | Campus receives coveted ‘green’ certification for Haste Street child center : Facility provides an environmentally friendly framework for young Golden Bears, and makes protecting the planet a part of their daily lives |
| 30 Apr | - | A snapshot of student reading habits over two decades: Surveys identify ephemeral, and enduring, choices — from Austen to Obama |
| 30 Apr | - | Laurels : Blue ribbons, gold stars, and honorable mentions |
| 30 Apr | - | News Briefs |
| 24 Apr | - | Understanding Underhill : Completed projects help meet a range of campus needs |
| 23 Apr | - | Bottom line on the Berkeley budget With the UC system facing a $417 million shortfall from the state, the campus strives to keep the pain to a minimum |
| 23 Apr | - | Sustainability Summit: A coming of age?: Students, staff, and faculty pitched in, prodded, and preached the green gospel |
| 23 Apr | - | Low cortisol levels found in children of mothers with depressive symptoms |
| 23 Apr | - | Sudden Oak Death pathogen is evolving, says new study: Conditions favorable to the pathogen have led to rapid spread of SOD to areas distant from its sites of origin in Northern California |
| 23 Apr | - | Obituary: Alex Farrell |
| 23 Apr | - | News Briefs |
| 16 Apr | - | Setting minds ablaze since 1959: For half a century, the campus has honored its top teachers with the Distinguished Teaching Award. Four new recipients carry on the tradition |
| 16 Apr | - | This year’s Sustainability Summit definitely has an agenda: It just isn’t printed on paper. Walking the walk, organizers plan for the day’s big events to make a minimal mess |
| 16 Apr | - | UC researchers uncover new clues to a hidden dementia: FTLD affects the sufferer’s emotions, which makes it easy to overlook |
| 16 Apr | - | Bush under fire, friendly and otherwise: President gets low marks at a campus retrospective, and his former re-election strategist is the toughest grader of all |
| 16 Apr | - | Sights, sounds, and stories from around the world : PFA curator Susan Oxtoby shares her picks from the San Francisco International Film Festival |
| 16 Apr | - | Obituary: Gerard Caspary |
| 16 Apr | - | News Briefs |
| 09 Apr | - | Honoring those who keep the place running: Annual day of recognition for top-flight staff was April 3 |
| 09 Apr | - | A chronicle of Berkeley: Nut Hill, chained suffragettes, and all: The town and the campus are joined at the historical hip, says Berkeley City College prof Charles Wollenberg |
| 09 Apr | - | Pulitzer for a poet: Berkeley’s Robert Hass shares 2008 award for his collection Time and Materials |
| 09 Apr | - | Fruit and flowers honor a teacher who ‘knows her stuff’: This year’s student-initiated Golden Apple Award goes to Ananya Roy |
| 09 Apr | - | A snapshot of diversity, Berkeley-style: In a two-day photo session, hundreds of staff, faculty, and students line up to say ‘cheese’ . . . . and ‘thank you’ |
| 09 Apr | - | For men’s basketball program, new hire’s nothing but netMike Montgomery, who led Stanford (yes, Stanford) to four Pac-10 titles and a tournament crown, takes the reins as Cal’s head coach a quick week following Ben Braun’s departure |
| 09 Apr | - | Shades of gray . . . with a touch of black-and-blue: In her first novel, English lecturer Melanie Abrams takes a literary yet erotic approach to dominant/submissive sex |
| 09 Apr | - | Chancellor speaks truth to power in D.C.: At Senate hearing on greenhouse-gas emissions, Birgeneau outlines campus’s leadership, calls for tighter restrictions to curb global warming |
| 09 Apr | - | Experts’ guesstimate: Cal Day could reach SPF30 |
| 09 Apr | - | Latest U.S. News graduate rankings spotlight Berkeley’s breadth |
| 09 Apr | - | Obituary: Robert Mishell |
| 09 Apr | - | News Briefs |
| 02 Apr | - | Regents pick University of Texas chancellor to lead UC system: A legal scholar who’s headed two major public universities, Mark Yudof stresses accountability, vows to ‘earn the confidence of the people of California every day’ |
| 02 Apr | - | Meet the (flesh-eating) beetles — performing one day only: That would be Cal Day, naturally, a multi-species extravaganza of science, art, awesomeness, and just plain fun for the whole Cal family |
| 02 Apr | - | Opening up, or dumbing down?: Web 2.0 ‘creates an environment where anyone can say anything.’ That’s either the beginning of wisdom, the end of civilization as we know it, or something in between |
| 02 Apr | - | All keyed up: 25 students vie for an 80-year-old Steinway: Generosity and serendipity both play a part in the first Berkeley Piano Competition |
| 02 Apr | - | It's My Job |
| 02 Apr | - | Rap music’s growing addiction to drugs: Decades after Public Enemy warned of the dangers of crack, a new study raises public-health concerns over today’s artists’ linking of drugs to creativity, wealth, and status |
| 02 Apr | - | Wrapping our arms around octopus love: Biologists find the secretive sea creatures’ mating behavior is surprisingly complex, featuring gender-bending, flirting, and, yes, plenty of hand-holding |
| 02 Apr | - | Literary scholar Annabel Patterson to deliver Tanner Lectures: Talks to range from Bacon and Locke to American values |
| 02 Apr | - | Laurels : Celebrating Berkeley’s blue ribbons, gold stars, and honorable mentions |
| 02 Apr | - | Research Roundup |
| 02 Apr | - | Obituary: David Gale |
| 02 Apr | - | Letter to the Editor |
| 02 Apr | - | News Briefs |
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March | ||
| 20 Mar | - | Migrating to El Norte: Opinion by Alvaro Huerta |
| 19 Mar | - | East Asian Library is open for business: The campus's far-flung collections have a stunning new home |
| 19 Mar | - | A new honor for indefatigable former faculty: The first Dickson Emeriti Professorship recognizes the ongoing work of Joseph Duggan |
| 19 Mar | - | Faculty and student scholars ponder a world on the move: Sociologist Irene Bloemraad seeks to raise the profile of migration studies at Berkeley, where a new generation of students from immigrant families is coming of age |
| 19 Mar | - | Understanding the Middle East, or not: In separate Nimitz lectures, a retired top general and the former head of the CIA’s bin Laden desk offer sharply conflicting views of al Qaeda, Iraq, and U.S. foreign policy |
| 19 Mar | - | Anniversary of a rebellionWhat veteran of ’60s protests can view Serge Hambourg’s photos and not murmur, ‘We’ll always have Paris’? |
| 19 Mar | - | Fun and enlightenment for 35,000 will be the order of the day : Cal Day, the campus’s annual open house, is April 12 |
| 19 Mar | - | Daniel Boyarin will deliver Faculty Research Lecture: His April 1 talk on Plato and the Talmud is the second of two lectures in the 2008 series |
| 19 Mar | - | Berkeley and Stanford to conduct joint stem-cell research |
| 19 Mar | - | Research Roundup |
| 19 Mar | - | New Briefs |
| 12 Mar | - | A peer-to-peer-support resource is born: The Disability Staff Resource Network aims to empower employees seeking workplace accommodations |
| 12 Mar | - | Alarming increase in growth of China’s CO2 emissions anticipated: Now the top emitter of carbon dioxide worldwide, China is especially culpable, researchers say, for its tolerance of provincial pollution during its rush to development |
| 12 Mar | - | Human trafficking steps from the shadows: On the eve of International Women’s Day, attention turns to the largely invisible issue of modern-day slavery |
| 12 Mar | - | Chemist to deliver year’s first Faculty Research Lecture |
| 12 Mar | - | A handout to help break the cycle of poverty: Extra cash given to low-income Mexican families is linked to better child development. Based on its success, a similar program is underway in New York City |
| 12 Mar | - | Accrediting commission notes UC compensation and governance reforms |
| 12 Mar | - | School of Public Health to honor its ‘heroes’ in annual ceremony |
| 12 Mar | - | Laurels : Celebrating Berkeley’s blue ribbons, gold stars, and honorable mentions |
| 12 Mar | - | Obituary: John Freeman |
| 12 Mar | - | News Briefs |
| 05 Mar | - | Online calculator yields a personal carbon footprint: By enabling household-to-household comparisons, it helps users better estimate the impact of their energy-saving actions |
| 05 Mar | - | Prime-time torture gets a reality check: Jack Bauer, the hero of 24, is an unalloyed force for truth, justice, and the American way — at least on the tube. The real world is more complicated |
| 05 Mar | - | All in the job family: Tips to help managers, supervisors, and staff navigate the next phase of Career Compass |
| 05 Mar | - | Berkeley to partner with new Saudi universityDepartment of Mechanical Engineering to receive $28 million over five years for its role in establishing a counterpart in the desert kingdom. Assurances are offered regarding the rights of women and other participants |
| 05 Mar | - | ¡Caramba! Gordo comes to Berkeley: Gus Arriola’s much-loved comic strip, published almost continuously from 1941 until 1985, brought Mexico to millions of readers north of the border. Now his chubby tour guide’s archives have found a home at the Bancroft |
| 05 Mar | - | UC to offer admission to all eligible undergraduates for 2008-09: California’s budget challenge deepens; enrolling additional students in the future without state funding is ‘not sustainable,’ says Provost Hume |
| 05 Mar | - | Public-health worker shortage will leave the nation vulnerable, according to new ASPH report : Experts at the School of Public Health confirm that the crisis will have an impact on California |
| 05 Mar | - | Public schools in California are performing better, says PACE policy brief, though ‘rough edges’ persist: Despite insufficient resources and increasing diversity, schools are ‘generally moving in the right direction’ |
| 05 Mar | - | Exhibit to depict a century of student fashion on the Berkeley campus: From the plugs of a century ago to the fauxhawks of today, campus couture has tracked larger social influences |
| 05 Mar | - | News Briefs |
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February | ||
| 27 Feb | - | Keeping the fruits of knowledge within reach: The Berkeley Research Impact Initiative explores alternatives to traditional publishing models |
| 27 Feb | - | Milquetoasts need not apply?: As demonstrators targeted the moderator, a panel of legal experts discussed the next president’s role in shaping the federal judiciary |
| 27 Feb | - | Solar panels ‘a loser’ in the search for affordable energy: Solar-photovoltaic systems not only cost four times as much money as they ‘save,’ says Haas School researcher Severin Borenstein, but they’re installed in the wrong places |
| 27 Feb | - | The Promise of Berkeley: Keeping the Cal family in touch |
| 27 Feb | - | Bigfoot casts a philosophical shadow: On the heels of Darwin Day, the Hearst Museum displays plaster casts of alleged Sasquatch footprints — and ponders the nature of evidence and truth |
| 27 Feb | - | Digital-media grants will fund new projects: By exploring air pollution in Cairo and Los Angeles, and teaching English via cell phone in India, two Berkeley researchers will advance the development of digital media for learning |
| 27 Feb | - | Strong community and social networks may do an ailing heart good, new study finds : High levels of ‘social capital’ in communities linked to reduced occurrence of acute coronary syndrome |
| 27 Feb | - | New business center to bolster Haas School’s Asia offerings |
| 27 Feb | - | Faculty Nightstand: For fun, lit prof Vicky Kahn turns to modern-day fiction |
| 27 Feb | - | It's My Job |
| 27 Feb | - | News Briefs |
| 20 Feb | - | Top UC administrator coming to Berkeley as associate chancellor: UC Associate President Linda Williams joins the chancellor’s office, as John Cummins retires after 36 years on campus |
| 20 Feb | - | New endowed chair is named to honor longtime campus supporter Robert Haas: Funding for Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion comes from Levi Strauss & Co., supported by the recent Hewlett Challenge grant |
| 20 Feb | - | Ang Lee’s films to be focus of ‘On the Same Page’ program |
| 20 Feb | - | National Academy of Engineering elects three from Berkeley |
| 19 Feb | - | 2008 UC summer programs for children |
| 13 Feb | - | What do we mean when we talk of love?: Just in time for Valentine’s Day, psychologist Dacher Keltner demystifies the biological manifestations of everyone’s favorite heartfelt emotion |
| 13 Feb | - |
General says Abu Ghraib scandal will resonate ‘for years to come’ Even in retirement, Antonio Taguba, whose report on inmate abuse shed new light on the U.S. ‘war on terror,’ remains the good soldier and reluctant critic |
| 13 Feb | - | So an EECS prof and an undergrad walk into a computer lab...: Jester 4.0 may seem like a lot of laughs, but to Ken Goldberg and Tavi Nathanson, jokes about dumb blondes and Chuck Norris are merely the setup for adventures in higher math |
| 13 Feb | - | Campus to conduct first online conference on aging: Seniors and scholars alike can participate in real time, or view archived presentations later. It’s all in preparation for the upcoming ‘silver tsunami’ of aging Boomers |
| 13 Feb | - | National Academy of Sciences hosting art-practice prof Katherine Sherwood’s ‘Golgi’s Door’ show |
| 13 Feb | - | Somewhere on I-880, between Hayward and Fremont, they drove into the future (then came right back) |
| 13 Feb | - | Tracking gliding behavior in the ‘flying’ lemur: The airborne critter maneuvers through forests and around obstacles, propelling itself on wind currents caught by its membranous skin |
| 13 Feb | - | News Briefs |
| 06 Feb | - | Berkeley joins the nation in turning the spotlight on climate change: Last week the campus participated with other colleges and universities across America to ‘Focus the Nation’ on global warming |
| 06 Feb | - | Statistician’s new method will test election outcomes: ‘Auditing for confidence’ on the basis of observed discrepancies |
| 06 Feb | - | Who goes here? The undergrad lowdown: Latest survey data offers a 360-degree view of the Berkeley student body — its social and study habits, political leanings, and academic inclinations |
| 06 Feb | - | Rewriting history and poking fun at the powers that be : BAM/PFA opens a 25-year retrospective of Enrique Chagoya’s audacious artwork |
| 06 Feb | - | Anna’s hummingbird chirps with its tailWhat sets the tone for hummer romance? A high climb, a steep dive — and just the right vibration |
| 06 Feb | - | Engineers create new adhesive that mimics a gecko’s super-sticky toe hairs: It’s directional, relieving the lizards — and, perhaps someday, even robots — of the need to apply pressure to adhere to a surface |
| 06 Feb | - | Freshman publishes memoir of his life with ADHD: Two years after starting to write, his hope remains to humanize a misunderstood disorder |
| 06 Feb | - | It's My Job |
| 06 Feb | - | Laurels : Celebrating Berkeley’s blue ribbons, gold stars, and honorable mentions |
| 06 Feb | - | Obituary: Jorge Liderman |
| 06 Feb | - | News Briefs |
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January | ||
| 30 Jan | - | Chancellor Birgeneau on keeping public universities affordable: ‘We have to start now’ |
| 30 Jan | - | ‘Green chemistry’ promoted as a sustainable approach to managing the manufacture and use of toxicsChemical exposures cost California an estimated $2.6 billion, says new policy report endorsed by 127 UC faculty |
| 30 Jan | - | When environmental footprints land on the neighbors’ doorstepsThe wealth of (some) nations is often built on the damage they impose on others |
| 30 Jan | - | Campus issues statement of environmental commitment: An expression of our role as university citizens |
| 30 Jan | - | New director in place to coordinate campus sustainability efforts: A résumé that includes natural-resource management and climate-change study |
| 30 Jan | - | First endowed faculty chair in new media funded by craigslistThanks to matching funds from the Hewlett Foundation’s 2007 challenge grant, income from more than $3 million will be available to support the chairholder’s work |
| 30 Jan | - | Mellon Foundation grant will help the humanities compete : Endowment establishes new fund to aid Berkeley’s recruitment of top graduate students |
| 30 Jan | - | For Obama, the act’s the thing: Theater prof Shannon Steen peers into the candidate’s political persona and finds Horatio Alger, Abe Lincoln, and Stanislavski looking back at her |
| 30 Jan | - | Coming attractions for spring 2008: Global warming, rebellion, and redemption top a lineup of events at Berkeley this sememter that will challenge the mind, entertain the senses, and depart from the conventional |
| 30 Jan | - | News Briefs |
| 23 Jan | - | Albert Bowker, fifth chancellor at Berkeley, dies at 88: During the 1970s, he ‘paved the way’ for the campus of today |
| 23 Jan | - | Campus to remove diseased Monterey pines from Gill Tract in Albany: Infection, pests, and high winds have all taken their toll on the aging stand of trees, posing danger to the driving and pedestrian public |
| 23 Jan | - | Frances Allen: A pioneer in high-performance computing: The explorer, adventurer, and renowned computer scientist delivers a Regents’ Lecture for EECS on Jan. 31 |
| 23 Jan | - | News Briefs |
| 16 Jan | - | Governor’s budget proposes cuts to address deficit: UC’s compact with the state will still be honored — but 10 percent must then come off the top of the new total, Schwarzenegger says |
| 16 Jan | - | New life for the New Deal: Revered, reviled, and largely forgotten, the public-works legacy of the FDR era is all around us — and the Living New Deal Project is drawing the map |
| 16 Jan | - | Historian Thomas Laqueur receives Mellon Foundation award for distinguished achievement: ‘Depth and liveliness’ characterize the noted scholar’s enquiries into religion, death, and sex |
| 16 Jan | - | Fiction readers get their moment in the campus spotlight: Story Hour in the Library series debuts next week |
| 16 Jan | - | Neil Henry to lead journalism school in 2008: He’ll serve until a permanent head is appointed |
| 16 Jan | - | It's My Job |
| 16 Jan | - | Discover magazine cites Berkeley research among 2007’s top stories |
| 16 Jan | - | Ant parasite turns its host into something resembling a ripe, red berry : The better to facilitate parasite population growth through consumption of avian droppings, researchers conclude |
| 16 Jan | - | Stem-cell grant to Berkeley bioengineer will spur research on rejuvenating muscle: Irina Conboy looks ahead to a time when, like now, many of us are falling apart . . . but we’ll be able to do something about it |
| 16 Jan | - | Research Roundup |
| 16 Jan | - | Obituary: Donald Kaplan |
| 16 Jan | - | Obituary: Andrew Imbrie |
| 16 Jan | - | Obituary: VèVè Clark |
| 16 Jan | - | Obituary: Paul Plouffe |
| 16 Jan | - | News Briefs |
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