http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/ Headlines from the University of California, Berkeley Steve McConnell - steve.mcconnell@berkeley.edu en-US http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/11/06_late.shtml"> <rssT>BAM/PFA kicks off edgy Friday night series</rssT> </a> </span><br /> <rssD>L@TE nights at Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive aim to bring in fresh energy with outside-the-box programs organized by guest curators. The new Friday evening series begins Nov. 6.</rssD> <br /> <span class="date">(<rssDt>06 November</rssDt>)</span> </p> <p><span class="headline"> <rssL><a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/11/05_hearst_director.shtml Anthropologist Mari Lyn Salvador, a scholar of Panama's native Kuna people and the textiles that they create and an experienced museum professional, has been named director of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the UC Berkeley. Salvador is scheduled to take the new post in late November. Published: 05 November http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/11/04_ueno.shtml Composer and assistant professor of music Ken Ueno said the audience at Monday's San Francisco premiere of his new musical composition, "Archaeologies of the Future," heard sounds they likely never heard before. Published: 04 November http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/10/27_monster.shtml The post-9/11 proliferation of zombie movies tells us a lot about society's fears - and gives us a safe place to experience them. Now zombies are giving way to vampires, and students in the "Monster Movies" media studies class are learning why. Published: 27 October http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/10/15_shorter.shtml Making music goes far beyond putting notes together to create pleasing sounds for saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter, who prefers to think of himself as a "decomposer, someone who takes things apart." Shorter and his acoustic quartet will dismantle Zellerbach Hall when they perform there Oct. 17. Published: 15 October http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/09/17_botero2009.shtml An exhibition of 56 powerful paintings and drawings by Colombian artist Fernando Botero about abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq opens Wednesday, Sept. 23, at the University of California, Berkeley's Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA). Published: 17 September http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/09/17_darwin.shtml An exhibit revealing what inspired and challenged the world's best known biologist, Charles Darwin, is now open at the University of California, Berkeley's Bancroft Library in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth. The Bancroft joins a worldwide commemoration not only of Darwin's bicentenary, but of the 150th anniversary of the publication of his landmark book, "The Origin of Species." Published: 17 September http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/07/28_karlinsky.shtml Simon Karlinsky, a University of California, Berkeley, professor of Slavic languages and literature and a pioneering scholar of Russian classic and émigré literature, died in his Berkeley home on July 5 of congestive heart failure. He was 84. Published: 28 July http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/07/13_linguistics.shtml Hundreds of linguists from around the world are gathering at the University of California, Berkeley, through Aug. 13 to weigh thorny issues such as where grammar comes from, what infants learn before they talk, what DNA says about how related languages spread, and the "linguistically modern man." Published: 13 July http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/06/15_connors.shtml Betty Connors, who for 35 years led the UC Berkeley performing arts organization that ultimately became Cal Performances, died on Thursday, June 11, at her home in Richmond. She was 92. Published: 15 June http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2009/06/12_reading.shtml The annual Summer Reading List is a Berkeley tradition. Entering freshmen (and the rest of us) stock our beach bags with books recommended by campus staff and faculty - this year, on the theme of science. Published: 12 June http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/06/01_amphil.shtml Three University of California, Berkeley, faculty members have been elected to the American Philosophical Society, the nation's oldest learned society comprised of nearly 1,000 eminent scholars from a broad range of disciplines. Published: 01 June http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/05/20_calperfsdir.shtml Robert Birgeneau, chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, today (Wednesday, May 20) announced the appointment of Matías Tarnopolsky as director of Cal Performances. The announcement was made at a press conference in Zellerbach Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. Published: 20 May http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2009/05/01_passion.shtml A new Berkeley Art Museum exhibit showcases the work of six artists grappling with the power of their media to effect social change. Published: 01 May http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2009/04/23_cole.shtml Longtime Cal Performances director Robert Cole, who will step down this August, announces the arts organization's 2009-10 season.The arts impresario also reflects on some of his favorite events during his 23 years at Cal Performances' helm. Published: 23 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2009/04/23_searle.shtml Over the course of his 50 years on campus, John Searle - among Berkeley's most distinguished and engaged public intellectuals - has explored the philosophy of language, to worldwide renown. He's also gotten in some skiing. Published: 23 April