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Energy expert Alex Farrell dies at 46

CAPTION: Alexander E. Farrell, director of UC Berkeley's Transportation Sustainability Research Center, was a leading expert on transportation fuels and the role of transportation in climate change.

Credit: Jeffery Kahn/UC Berkeley

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CAPTION: Alexander E. Farrell, associate professor in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley

Credit: UC Berkeley

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Sudden Oak Death pathogen is evolving, says new study that reconstructs the epidemic

CAPTION: These tanoaks were killed by the Sudden Oak Death pathogen on Mount Tamalpais, near one of the sites where the exotic pathogen was first introduced in California. Infected ornamental plants were found to be the most likely source of the introduction.

Credit: Matteo Garbelotto/UC Berkeley

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CAPTION: Up to 100 percent of adult tanoaks have been killed by the Sudden Oak Death pathogen in many sites around the Big Sur region (Monterey County). Despite the extreme severity of the disease, the pathogen was introduced in the Big Sur region well after its introduction in Santa Cruz and Marin counties. Unfortunately, climatic conditions favorable to the pathogen have led to very rapid spread of SOD in this area.

Credit: Matteo Garbelotto/UC Berkeley

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Madagascar conservation map protects species in biodiversity hot spot

CAPTION: Western Wooly Lemurs, such as the pair shown here, are found in the dry, deciduous forests of Western Madagascar. This species is included in a new conservation roadmap developed for Madagascar by an international team of researchers.

Credit: Edward E. Louis Jr.

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CAPTION: Varecia variegata, black-and-white ruffed lemur, found in the rainforests of eastern Madagascar.

Credit: Edward E. Louis Jr.

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CAPTION: Propithecus perrieri is one of the most endangered of all lemurs. Commonly known as Perrier's sifaka, this lemur inhabits a small area of dry forests in extreme northern Madagascar.

Credit: Edward E. Louis Jr.

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CAPTION: Pharmacophagus antenor is Madagascar's largest butterfly, which has a wingspan of 12-14 cm. It is found only on this island nation, living in the spiny desert and forests of the South, West and far North regions.

Credit: Steven J. Phillips

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CAPTION: Mantella aurantiaca, a terrestrial frog species native to Madagascar.

Credit: Ronald A. Nussbaum

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CAPTION: Phelsuma lineata, a species of gecko found in northern Madagascar.

Credit: Miroslav Honzák

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CAPTION: Giant leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus fimbriatus) is found in eastern Madagascar. If disturbed it will raise it tail and head, open its mouth and scream.

Credit: Piotr Naskrecki

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CAPTION: Baobab is the common name of Adansonia trees, native to Madagascar. These deciduous trees, known for their ability to endure harsh, dry conditions, were included in a new roadmap for conservation in Madagascar.

Credit: Steven J. Phillips

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Medieval history professor, devoted to students, dead at 79

CAPTION: Gerard Caspary, a UC Berkeley professor emeritus of medieval history known for his powerful intellect and his exceptional devotion to his students.

Credit: UC Berkeley

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Octopus sex more sophisticated than arm-wrestling

CAPTION: A grey male octopus (at right) mates with a female.

Credit: Roy L. Caldwell/UC Berkeley

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CAPTION: A male octopus's hectocotylus, or mating arm (with pink lining), is inserted into the female's mantle.

Credit: Roy L. Caldwell/UC Berkeley

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CAPTION: Male octopus displays a distinguishing brown stripe.

Credit: Roy L. Caldwell/UC Berkeley

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UC Regents review preliminary design for new Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive

CAPTION: Toyo Ito's conceptual designs include this inviting, street-level entryway to the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive in the heart of downtown Berkeley.

Credit: UC Berkeley

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CAPTION: This map shows the location of the museum planned near the main western entrance to campus.

Credit: UC Berkeley

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Youngest student to publish ADHD memoir

CAPTION: UC Berkeley freshman Blake Taylor has published a self-help memoir called “ADHD & me: what I learned from lighting fires at the dinner table.”

Credit: UC Berkeley NewsCenter/Jeffery Kahn

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Albert Bowker, innovative UC Berkeley chancellor during 1970s, dies at age 88

CAPTION: Albert Hosmer Bowker, a former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, was an expert in statistics and an innovative administrator during his decades-long career in higher education across the country.

Credit: Eliot Khuner

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Rich nations' environmental footprint falls on poor

CAPTION: Chart of the ecological footprints of the world's low-, middle- and high-income nations on each other shows that the environmental damage caused by rich nations falls disproportionately on poor nations.

Credit: Thara Srinivasan

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Teen pregnancy the norm among dinosaurs

CAPTION: Cross-section through the fossilized tibia or shinbone of a 150 million-year-old female Allosaurus skeleton, showing growth rings and the position of medullary bone laid down in the marrow cavity just prior to egg laying. This individual died when a 10-year-old adolescent, shortly before she would have laid her eggs. Silhouettes indicate the relative sizes of a juvenile and a fully-grown Allosaurus.

Credit: Andrew Lee/Ohio University; fossil courtesy of the University of Utah

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Teen pregnancy the norm among dinosaurs

CAPTION: Cross-sections through the fossilized tibia or shinbone of a 120 million-year-old female Tenontosaurus skeleton, showing growth rings and medullary bone laid down in the marrow cavity just prior to egg laying. This individual died at the age of eight, shortly before she would have laid her eggs.

Credit: Sarah Werning/UC Berkeley & Andrew Lee/Ohio University; fossil courtesy of the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

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Professor wins Mellon prize for influential unconventional research

CAPTION: Thomas W. Laqueur, professor of history at UC Berkeley and winner of a 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Mellon Foundation.

Credit: UC Berkeley

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Moss genome tells of origin of land plants

CAPTION: Top view of a colony of the moss Physcomitrella patens, which is slightly more than a half-inch across. The spores of P. patens, a descendent of the one of the first plants to leave the water and colonize land, germinate to produce a network of radiating filaments called the protonema, upon which are borne the leafy shoots

Credit: John Cove/University of Leeds, UK

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VèVè Clark, cosmopolitan African diaspora scholar, dies at 62

CAPTION: VèVè Amasasa Clark, associate professor of African American studies at UC Berkeley

Credit: Jane Scherr photo

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Paleontologist Joseph Gregory has died at 93

CAPTION: Joseph T. Gregory, former director of UC Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology, died Nov. 18 in Houston, Texas, at age 93.

Credit: Courtesy of New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science

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New technique captures chemical reactions in a single living cell for the first time

CAPTION: lights scatter from metallic nanoplasmonic particles upon excitation of an external light source. UC Berkeley researchers coupled the metallic nanoparticles with biomolecules to detect chemical signals within a single living cell at unprecedented resolution

Credit: Gang Logan Liu and Luke Lee, UC Berkeley

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Social standing influences how far elephants travel for food, study finds

CAPTION: A family of elephants leaves a river in Samburu National Reserve upon the arrival of a more dominant elephant family. Monsoon, the matriarch (third from the right in foreground) in the more dominant family, is equipped with a GPS radio collar, allowing researchers to track her movements.

Credit: George Wittemyer

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C.V. Starr East Asian Library to be dedicated Oct. 20

CAPTION: C.V. Starr East Asian Library, viewed from across Memorial Glade.

Credit: Jonathan Martin/UC Berkeley

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CAPTION: Interior of C.V. Starr East Asian Library.

Credit: Jonathan Martin/UC Berkeley

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CAPTION: Interior of C.V. Starr East Asian Library.

Credit: Jonathan Martin/UC Berkeley

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C.V. Starr East Asian Library to be dedicated Oct. 20

CAPTION: Chang-Lin Tien
former chancellor
University of California at Berkeley
1990-1997

Credit: John Blaustein, 1991

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CAPTION: Chang Lin Tien

Credit: Peg Skorpinski

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Methane drizzle on Saturn's moon Titan

CAPTION: VLT and Keck near-infrared images of Titan's surface and lower troposphere can be subtracted to reveal widespread cirrus-like clouds of frozen methane (lower images) and a large patch of liquid methane (dark area within box) interpreted as clouds and morning drizzle above the huge continent of Xanadu (outline). At left is a chart of Titan's aerosol haze versus altitude, indicating higher density haze over portions of the south pole and the heights of frozen and liquid methane clouds.

Credit: Mate Adamkovics/UC Berkeley, W. M. Keck Observatories, ESO

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Stanley Hall dedication heralds new era of bioscience innovation

CAPTION: The exterior of Stanley Hall is clad in Sierra white granite and copper, complementing the nearby Beaux Arts buildings on campus.

Credit: Peg Skorpinski

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CAPTION: UC Berkeley chemistry professor David Wemmer (left), director of the nuclear magnetic resonance facility at Stanley Hall, and Jeffrey Pelton, facility manager, examine data obtained from the 7-ton, 900 megahertz magnet seen in the background. The magnet, one of only a few in operation worldwide,will be used by researchers throughout Central and Northern California.

Credit: Peg Skorpinski

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CAPTION: A number of laboratories look out into the 5-story atrium of Stanley Hall.

Credit: Robert Canfield

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CAPTION: Stanley Hall's exterior is clad in Sierra white granite and copper, complementing the nearby Beaux Arts buildings on campus.

Credit: Peg Skorpinski

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CAPTION: UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau

Credit: John Blaustein photo

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CAPTION: UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau

Credit: John Blaustein photo

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CAPTION: UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau

Credit: John Blaustein photo

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CAPTION: UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau and his wife, Mary Catherine Birgeneau

Credit: John Blaustein photo