|
Year:
2000
|
| October
2000 |
| 18Oct |
- |
UC
Berkeley professors measure exploding world production of
new information |
| 18Oct |
- |
Interplanetary
Network detects gigantic gamma-ray burst that breaks all
distance records |
| 17Oct |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: Regulating
on the Technological Edge |
| 17Oct |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: Building Better Health
Systems: Leadership Challenges for the 21st Century |
| 16Oct |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY:Mario
Savio Memorial Lecture: "Forward and Backward: Women, Globalization
and the New Class Structure" |
| 11Oct |
- |
UC Berkeley economist Daniel
McFadden receives this year's Nobel Prize in economics |
| 09Oct |
- |
UC
Berkeley law students to hold offbeat auction on Friday,
Oct. 13, for minority student fellowships |
| 09Oct |
- |
Innovative
"town and gown" community partnerships honored by UC Berkeley
Chancellor and Mrs. Robert M. Berdahl |
| 04Oct |
- |
Huge
Calder sculpture outside UC Berkeley Art Museum to get conservation
makeover |
| 03Oct |
- |
California
botanist Robert Ornduff, former director of UC Botanical
Garden and UC Berkeley professor, dies at 68 |
|
September
2000
|
| 28Sep |
- |
UC
Berkeley demographer finds first evidence that maximum age
at death in humans is rising |
| 27Sep |
- |
UC
Berkeley's annual Homecoming, Reunion and Family Weekend
to be held October 13-15 |
| 26Sep |
- |
Car
shoppers save by buying on the Internet says UC Berkeley/Yale
study |
| 25Sep |
- |
Foundation
funds new technology and science reporting professorship
at UC Berkeley's journalism school |
| 25Sep |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: Maximizing
Shareholder Value: Lessons from the Natural World |
| 19Sep |
- |
Beware
of plant supplements called flavonoids; they could make
you sick, warn UC Berkeley public health experts |
| 18Sep |
- |
UC
Berkeley alumnus creates $1million fund to renovate Wurster
Hall and study issues affecting gays and lesbians in architecture |
| 14Sep |
- |
New
fossil find pushes age of terrestrial fungi back 60 million
years, to the same era when green plants pulled themselves
onto land |
| 14Sep |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: "Who
Owns the Body?" |
| 14Sep |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: Leading
Edge Technology Conference |
| 13Sep |
- |
Statement
on hospitalization of Dr. Chang-Lin Tien |
| 13Sep |
- |
UC
Berkeley professor emeritus and noted economic historian
Carlo Cipolla dies in Italy following long illness |
| 13Sep |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: Conference
on Housing and Urban Policy hosted by UC Berkeley's Haas
School of Business |
| 13Sep |
- |
UC
Berkeley computer scientists receive nearly $9.5 million
to tackle some of today's major computer and Internet problems |
| 07Sep |
- |
Proposed
historic pact between UC Berkeley, Cuban libraries encourages
research, share materials |
| 05Sep |
- |
Historic
UC Berkeley study finds profound impact on adult lives of
children 25 years after their parents' divorce |
| |
| August
2000 |
| 30Aug |
- |
NSF,
NIH give $5.2 million to UC Berkeley to train scientists
for the post-genome world |
| 30Aug |
- |
Largest
corporate gift ever to UC Berkeley's College of Chemistry
helps launch new center for organic chemistry |
| 30Aug |
- |
UC
Berkeley's Lunch Poems series kicks off Sept. 7 with readings
by faculty, staff members |
| 29Aug |
- |
Future
workplaces will function best with Stone Age features, UC
Berkeley professors suggest |
| 29Aug |
- |
UC
Berkeley, backed by local fire agencies, to begin effort
to reduce wildland fire risk in hills above the campus |
| 24Aug |
- |
UC
Berkeley's journalism school opening experimental center
to safeguard the documentary
|
| 24Aug |
- |
UC
Berkeley teaching high-tech era students how to give their
money away, run non-profit organizations
|
| 24Aug |
- |
Class
of 2004 begins arriving for new school year at UC Berkeley,
where most classes start Aug. 28
|
| 21Aug |
- |
STATEMENT
FROM CHANCELLOR ROBERT M. BERDAHL |
| 17Aug |
- |
State-of-the-art
measuring techniques show northern Hayward fault slips freely,
meaning less chance of a major quake |
| 16Aug |
- |
W.
James Hill, former assistant dean under several administrations
at UC Berkeley's law school, dies at 82 |
| 15Aug |
- |
Leslie
Lipson, political scientist and UC Berkeley professor for
more than 30 years, dies at 87 |
| 11Aug |
- |
Nobel
Laureate John C. Harsanyi, UC Berkeley economist and game
theory pioneer, dies at 80 |
| 09Aug |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: Money and Influence in Politics |
| 08Aug |
- |
SETI@home
teams with The Planetary Society and Project Voyager to
continue search for intelligent signals from space |
| 07Aug |
- |
Astronomers
report discovery of three new extrasolar planets, plus hints
of many multi-planet systems |
| |
| July
2000 |
| 31Jul |
- |
UC
Berkeley reports greatest number of gifts given in one year
from alumni and friends |
| 27Jul |
- |
UC
Berkeley physicists create tiny bearings and springs out
of carbon nanotubes for use in microscopic machines |
| 26Jul |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: Wine barrel shake test will be conducted on the
nation's largest earthquake simulator at the University
of California, Berkeley |
| 25Jul |
- |
New
UC Berkeley program to prepare principals for California's
urban schools gets major boost with $7.5 million gift |
| 25Jul |
- |
Faulty
practices threaten success of California condor program,
says new report |
| 21Jul |
- |
UC
Berkeley professor takes D.C. post, is latest in long line
of campus economists advising Clinton Administration |
| 20Jul |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: "Go" workshop at MSRI |
| 13Jul |
- |
Paul
H. Mussen, UC Berkeley pioneer in developmental psychology,
dies at 78 |
| 13Jul |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: "Footprints from the Past" |
| 12Jul |
- |
Political
Reform Act of 1974 needs reform, says bipartisan commission
assisted by UC Berkeley scholars |
| 11Jul |
- |
UC
Berkeley offers $500 rebate to students who graduate at
end of Summer Sessions |
| 11Jul |
- |
Surprising
X-ray flare on brown dwarf is first evidence of magnetic
activity on these failed stars, astronomers report |
|
June
2000
|
| 30Jun |
- |
Professor
A. Richard Newton appointed new dean of UC Berkeley's College
of Engineering |
| 30Jun |
- |
Experimental
solid state physicist and former dean Walter Knight has
died at the age of 80 |
| 28Jun |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: The 13th International Congress on Photobiology
|
| 27Jun |
- |
Barbara
Christian, UC Berkeley professor and pioneer of contemporary
American literary feminism, dies at age 56 |
| 27Jun |
- |
Two
distinguished professors join UC Berkeley's senior management
team as vice provosts |
| 22Jun |
- |
UC
Berkeley excavations at San Francisco's historic Presidio
turn up three centuries of artifacts, plus the oldest colonial
deposits yet |
| 16Jun |
- |
Environmental
study finds no significant impact in adding permanent lights
to Memorial Stadium |
| 14Jun |
- |
UC
Berkeley economist Matthew Rabin wins MacArthur "genius"
fellowship for work on human behavior |
| 12Jun |
- |
American
power elites have lost exclusive rights to frame 'the story,"
says UC Berkeley linguist |
| 08Jun |
- |
UC
Berkeley's 2000 Summer Reading List introduces incoming
freshmen to great writers on campus |
| 08Jun |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY - media
tour of UC Berkeley's historic Hearst Mining Building, a
1907 Beaux Arts treasure being retrofitted, rehabilitated
and restored |
| 08Jun |
- |
Garrett
Eckbo, UC Berkeley professor known for inspiring the modern
landscape movement, dies at 89 |
| 07Jun |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY - "Breath of Life" workshop devoted to
resurrecting extinct Native American languages |
| 07Jun |
- |
It's
not glue, suction or static electricity that keep geckos
from falling off the ceiling, says new study from UC Berkeley,
Lewis & Clark, Stanford |
| 06Jun |
- |
UC
Berkeley music professor's research leads her into the arena
for 17th-century equestrian ballet |
| 06Jun |
- |
UC
Berkeley discovery to make possible June 7 attempt to cure
California's sick eucalyptus trees |
| 05Jun |
- |
UC
Berkeley's robotic telescope discovers record number of
supernovas in nearby galaxies |
| 01Jun |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: Computer camp for UCB professors |
| 01Jun |
- |
Prominent
figure in real estate finance who helped found UC Berkeley's
real estate program dies in Mexico |
| 01Jun |
- |
ATTENTION:
LEGAL AFFAIRS REPORTERS, NEWS DESKS: Berkeley Professors
available to speak on court-ordered grandparents' rights |
|
May 2000
|
| 26May |
- |
SETI@home,
UC Berkeley's search for extraterrestrial life, celebrates
first anniversary, is named finalist in Computerworld Smithsonian
Awards |
| 25May |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: "Seeing the Difference/Seeing Differently" |
| 24May |
- |
Stock
analysts' forecasts usually fall short of realized revenues,
says new UC Berkeley study |
| 23May |
- |
UC
Berkeley names two distinguished women professors to key
leadership posts |
| 22May |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: Quake 2000 |
| 18May |
- |
New
UC Berkeley admissions director is campus alumna who rose
through the ranks |
| 18May |
- |
Preeminent
statistician Lucien Le Cam, who helped establish the mathematical
foundations of modern statistics, dies at 75 |
| 17May |
- |
Upcoming
Venture Capital Institute at UC Berkeley's Haas School of
Business to share Silicon Valley-style secrets of success |
| 17May |
- |
Los
Angeles high school students team with community groups
in new UC Berkeley outreach program |
| 17May |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: Future of social work and social services for
children |
| 11May |
- |
UC
Berkeley faculty receive big honors: five elected to National
Academy of Sciences; three appointed HHMI investigators |
| 10May |
- |
UC
Berkeley wildlife specialist tries mission impossible: to
help ranchers in Kenya make peace between predators and
livestock |
| 09May |
- |
MAXIMA,
a balloon-borne experiment directed by UC Berkeley, finds
evidence for a flat universe, inflation and a cosmological
constant |
| 08May |
- |
Major
new work on the Pacific Islands by UC Berkeley archaeologist
buries the enduring myth of humans in paradise |
| 05May |
- |
A
diverse ecosystem offers little or no protection against
invading species, says a new UC Berkeley study |
| 05May |
- |
Madeleine
Albright heads a distinguished list of commencement speakers
as UC Berkeley's Class of 2000 graduates |
| 03May |
- |
Whitaker
Foundation grants $15 million to bioengineering |
| 03May |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: Landmark series of earthquake experiments |
| 02May |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: Robert Reich to speak at UC Berkeley |
| 02May |
- |
UC
Berkeley's top graduating senior is driven by thirst for
knowledge, good books and a commitment to others |
| 02May |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: Madeleine Albright to speak at UC Berkeley |
| 01May |
- |
Smokers
much more likely to quit if workplace smoke-free, UC Berkeley
study finds |
| 01May |
- |
Even
a brief closure at UC Berkeley after a major earthquake
would mean economic loss for the region |
April 2000 |
| 28Apr |
- |
Integrative
approach to studying penguins, cockroaches and little hairy
noses makes comparative biomechanics group at UC Berkeley
the nation's best |
| 27Apr |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: "The Economic Benefits of a Disaster Resistant
University," May 1 |
| 25Apr |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: "Take Your Child to Work Day," April
27 |
| 24Apr |
- |
UC
Berkeley to announce nation's first high-tech law clinic
to provide public conscience for Silicon Valley, voice for
consumers |
| 21Apr |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: Press conference to announce the creation of a
first-of-its-kind law clinic |
| 20Apr |
- |
Three
UC Berkeley professors will receive Distinguished Teaching
Award on April 25 |
| 20Apr |
- |
UC
Berkeley sees big drop in 1999 in the number of violent
crimes on campus |
| 19Apr |
- |
First
prototype of revolutionary SETI telescope unveiled at 40th
anniversary of the world's first scientific search for extraterrestrial
intelligence |
| 18Apr |
- |
Virgin
Earth, where are you? Earth Day finds UC Berkeley professor
searching for what's left |
| 17Apr |
- |
Sherwood
L. Washburn, father of modern primatology and UC Berkeley
professor of anthropology emeritus, dies at age 88 |
| 14Apr |
- |
Striking
at peak moment, UC Berkeley overhauls its Web site, goes
after top students with new recruiting tool |
| 13Apr |
- |
Astronomers
detect distant quasar near outer limits of our universe |
| 12Apr |
- |
Moving
magma under Mammoth Lakes area may be splitting rocks deep
underground, UC Berkeley seismologist reports |
| 12Apr |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: Cal Day, UC Berkeley's annual open house, is April
15th |
| 11Apr |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: "Sites along the Nile: Rescuing Ancient Egypt,"
a new Egyptian exhibit at UC Berkeley |
| 10Apr |
- |
Cal
Day 2000 on April 15 is expected to draw thousands of visitors
to UC Berkeley |
| 10Apr |
- |
MEDIA
ADVISORY: California State Treasurer Philip Angelides to
speak on upcoming unprecedented growth in California |
|
07Apr
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley moves forward on plans for more student housing
and a seismically secure dining complex
|
|
07Apr
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley student receives Truman Scholarship, is chosen
from among 599 candidates
|
|
06Apr
|
-
|
MEDIA
ADVISORY: "e-Campaigning: Ethics and the Internet," a
conference on political campaigning in the digital age
|
|
06Apr
|
-
|
Former
UC Berkeley dean of agriculture Earle Gorton Linsley has
died at the age of 89
|
|
06Apr
|
-
|
MEDIA
ADVISORY: "China, Japan and the U.S. at the Millennium,"
a forum on the three nation's relations, media influences
and foreign policy
|
|
05Apr
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley to dedicate renovated Goldman Field on Saturday
at invitational track meet
|
|
05Apr
|
-
|
MEDIA
ADVISORY: Press briefing on UC Berkeley's plans to build
new student housing
|
|
05Apr
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley biologist disputes current dogma that gentic
mutation is the cause of cancer
|
|
05Apr
|
-
|
Anthropologist
William Shack, prominent African scholar and graduate
dean emeritus, dies at 76
|
|
03Apr
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley will welcome crowds to Cal Day 2000, its free
April 15 open house
|
|
03Apr
|
-
|
University
of California, Berkeley Announces Admissions to Its Fall
2000 Freshman Class
|
March 2000 |
|
29Mar
|
-
|
MEDIA
ADVISORY: Etiquette lessons for UC Berkeley students
|
|
29Mar
|
-
|
MEDIA
ADVISORY: Presentation of The Berkeley Medal
|
|
29Mar
|
-
|
Planet
Hunters on trail of worlds smaller than Saturn
|
|
29Mar
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley psychologist finds evidence that male hormones
in the womb affect sexual orientation
|
|
29Mar
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley football players help high school athletes tackle
homework, consider college
|
|
27Mar
|
-
|
New
social venture competition at UC Berkeley lures business
plans from nation's top business schools
|
|
24Mar
|
-
|
Newest
version of UC Berkeley computer model, used widely by
semiconductor industry, will help with design of future
speed electronics
|
|
24Mar
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley collaboration with Celera Genomics concludes
with publication of nearly complete sequence of the genome
of the fruit fly
|
|
23Mar
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley alumna receives top award for educational reforms
in her homeland of India
|
|
23Mar
|
-
|
Symposium
Sat., March 25, to honor Professor Daniel Koshland Jr.:
biochemist, visionary and UC Berkeley benefactor
|
|
22Mar
|
-
|
Infamous
"van Gogh" beverage contains potent toxin with curious
brain effects, UC Berkeley scientists discover
|
|
22Mar
|
-
|
Spring
break for 70 UC Berkeley undergrads means recruiting college
students from Southern California
|
|
21Mar
|
-
|
Hip-hop
culture becomes a world-wide language for youth resistance,
according to UC Berkeley course
|
|
20Mar
|
-
|
MEDIA
ADVISORY: "Restructuring Medicare: Why? What? When?,"
a presentation at the University of California, Berkeley
|
|
17Mar
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley's student debaters win the national parliamentary
championship for the campus with their own money
|
|
16Mar
|
-
|
Prominent
environmental and human rights advocate to headline UC
Berkeley Charter Day ceremony
|
|
14Mar
|
-
|
MEDIA
ADVISORY: A presentation about ways to ensure that sweatshop
conditions do not occur in factories that manufacture
collegiate apparel and other products
|
|
14Mar
|
-
|
MEDIA
ADVISORY: "The Academy Awards: Boys, Girls, Men and Women
in the 1999 Film Year," a lunch hour critique by Carolyn
Patty Blum
|
|
13Mar
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley undergraduates show off their research at UC
Day in Sacramento, March 13 & 14
|
|
10Mar
|
-
|
MEDIA
ADVISORY: The Earl "Fatha" Hines Symposium, an event to
honor the late legendary jazz pianist and band leader
|
|
09Mar
|
-
|
Former
UC Berkeley chancellor, Smithsonian chief I. Michael Heyman
returns to Berkeley campus
|
|
09Mar
|
-
|
Meteoroid
bombardment of moon has intensified in past 500 million
years, coinciding with blossoming of life on Earth
|
|
09Mar
|
-
|
New
study suggests humans will not live long enough to see
Earth recover from a mass extinction
|
|
08Mar
|
-
|
Panhellenic
Games to be revived again this June at UC Berkeley excavation
site in Nemea, Greece
|
|
08Mar
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley will welcome crowds to Cal Day 2000, its April
15 open house
|
|
07Mar
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley professor working with Chechen colleagues to
save endangered language
|
|
03Mar
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley chemists find reliable way to grow quantum rods
and pack them into microscopic solar cells and LEDs
|
|
01Mar
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley's "Lunch Poems" proves among most popular of
ongoing public poetry readings
|
February 2000 |
|
29Feb
|
-
|
New
cryogenic detectors probe recent evidence for dark matter
particle
|
|
28Feb
|
-
|
Sociologist
Troy Duster appointed to lead an expanded American Cultures
program at UC Berkeley
|
|
25Feb
|
-
|
Newfound
quasar wins title "most distant in the universe," UC Berkeley
and Caltech astronomers report
|
|
25Feb
|
-
|
New
UC Berkeley "bionic chip" features living biological cell
successfully merged with electronic circuitry
|
|
20Feb
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley professor says best approach to learning science
is deeper study of fewer topics
|
|
20Feb
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley and Colorado scientists find valuable new source
of hydrogen fuel, produced by common algae
|
|
20Feb
|
-
|
Increased
international trade could be death knell to many of our
native species, says UC Berkeley ecologist
|
|
17Feb
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley professor finds talking with hundreds of students
no laughing matter
|
|
16Feb
|
-
|
First-ever
images of atom-scale electron clouds in high-temperature
superconductors could help in design of new and better
materials
|
|
15Feb
|
-
|
Law
professor John P. Dwyer appointed new dean of UC Berkeley's
Boalt Hall
|
|
14Feb
|
-
|
Revised
model of protein-drug interactions could make job of drug
designers a little easier
|
|
09Feb
|
-
|
Lisa
Capps, gifted young UC Berkeley psychologist, dies of
lung cancer at 35
|
|
09Feb
|
-
|
Little
houses of the less affluent draw the scholarly attention
of UC Berkeley architecture professor
|
|
07Feb
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley's Berkeley Pledge outreach program posts significant
gains in K-12 math and literacy
|
|
04Feb
|
-
|
Suzanne
Fleischman, UC Berkeley French professor who also explored
the language of illness, dies at age 51
|
|
03Feb
|
-
|
Smokers
could benefit from even a modest addition of vitamin C
to their diet, according to study by UC Berkeley and USDA
|
|
03Feb
|
-
|
Engineering
Dean Paul R. Gray selected to become UC Berkeley's new
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
|
|
02Feb
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley's new Free Speech Movement Café, honoring
1964 struggle, to be dedicated Thursday
|
|
01Feb
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley music department scores big hit hiring prominent
saxophonist Steve Coleman to teach, do research
|
January 2000 |
|
27Jan
|
-
|
Patent
filed on energy discovery: UC Berkeley and Colorado scientists
find valuable new source of fuel
|
|
27Jan
|
-
|
Art
on the Internet? Leading authorities will debate its evolution
and future at UC Berkeley symposium
|
|
25Jan
|
-
|
Geography
professor Bernard Nietschmann, a champion of indigenous
people around the world, has died of cancer at age 58
|
|
25Jan
|
-
|
"Designing
Campus of Tomorrow" celebrates architectural legacies,
explores higher education's needs
|
|
20Jan
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley geographer's new book, "Imperial San Francisco,"
details damage cities wreak on surrounding countryside
|
|
19Jan
|
-
|
Economy
booms but health insurance lags: More Californians lack
coverage, new UC report finds
|
|
18Jan
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley professor's book on childhood in America helps
define the country's past, future
|
|
14Jan
|
-
|
High
velocity clouds between galaxies identified as remnants
of early universe and seeds of the Milky Way Galaxy
|
|
11Jan
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley landscape architecture professor selected to
be jurist for Martin Luther King Memorial design
|
|
10Jan
|
-
|
Scholars
from around the world converge on UC Berkeley to discuss
Web-based research community
|
|
06Jan
|
-
|
Experimental
psychologist Arnold Leiman, a leader in undergraduate
education at UC Berkeley, has died at 67
|
|
05Jan
|
-
|
Lack
of after-school programs for preteens gives kids an advantage
in conflict with parents, says UC Berkeley researcher
|
|
04Jan
|
-
|
UC
Berkeley faculty members set up $1 million fund to attract
top graduate students and professors
|
