http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/ Headlines from the University of California, Berkeley Steve McConnell - steve.mcconnell@berkeley.edu en-US http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/04/30_calperformances.shtml Cal Performances' 2008-09 season will be an extended sendoff for its longtime director, Robert Cole, featuring a wealth of celebrated performers, promising emerging artists, and newly created works in 10 series: Classical and Modern Dance, Theater, Recital, Opera, Chamber Music and Orchestra, Music Before 1850, World Stage, Jazz, 20th-Century Music and Beyond, and Strictly Speaking. Published: 30 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/04/21_studentreads.shtml What do UC Berkeley students read? From Why do Men Have Nipples? to the novels of J.K. Rowling and Jane Austen, three large surveys of freshman reading habits, each conducted a decade apart, identify ephemeral - and enduring - undergraduate reading choices. Published: 21 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/04/16_filmfestival.shtml Springtime signals the arrival of the San Francisco International Film Festival, which has served up a banquet of global film for 51 years. Among the festival's venues is the campus's Pacific Film Archive, whose senior film curator, Susan Oxtoby, personally chooses the works that will screen there - 36 of the festival's 100-plus invited films this year. Published: 16 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/04/09_abrams.shtml In her first novel, English lecturer Melanie Abrams takes a literary yet erotic approach to dominant/submissive sex. Published: 09 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/04/09_hass.shtml Robert Hass, an award-winning University of California, Berkeley, professor of English and former U.S. poet laureate, has won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his latest book, “Time and Materials.” Published: 09 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/04/08_guggenheim.shtml Six UC Berkeley faculty members, all from the College of Letters & Science, have won prestigious Guggenheim fellowships. They are among 190 artists, scientists and scholars across the nation who were awarded the 2008 fellowships this week. Published: 08 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/04/07_pulitzer.shtml Robert Hass, an award-winning UC Berkeley professor of English and former U.S. poet laureate, has won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his latest book, "Time and Materials." Published: 07 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/04/03_scandinavian.shtml Want to learn how to say "I love Cal Day" in Swedish? How about in Norwegian, Danish or Finnish? On Cal Day in Room 33 of Dwinelle Hall, the Scandinavian Department will offer free, 30-minute lessons starting at 11 a.m. that essentially offer highlights of the first day of UC Berkeley classes in beginning Finnish, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian. Published: 03 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/04/02_piano.shtml Generosity and serendipity both play a part in the first Berkeley Piano Competition. Published: 02 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/03/19_paris68.shtml An exhibit of photos by Serge Hambourg at the Berkeley Art Museum captures the spirit of the 1968 Paris student revolt that nearly brought down the government of Charles De Gaulle. It's complemented at the Pacific Film Archive by "The Clash of '68," a series of films based on the theme of rebellion that infused the '60s generally. Published: 19 March http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/03/18_bampfa.shtml The University of California Regents Committee on Grounds and Buildings today (Tuesday, March 18) got its first peek at Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects' preliminary conceptual design for a new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) near the main western entrance to the UC Berkeley campus. Published: 18 March http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/03/03_fashion.shtml Battered hats and dirt-encrusted brown corduroy pants might scream 1990s grunge. But these shabby fashion statements were all the rage at UC Berkeley in the late 1890s and early 1900s. "The more disgusting they were, the higher status they held," said William Benemann, curator of a new campus exhibit "From Plugs to Bling: A Century of Cal Student Fashion." Published: 03 March http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/02/29_gordo.shtml The "Gordo" comic strips, which beginning in 1941 introduced millions of people in the United States to life south of the border, is part of the rich archive of cartoonist Gus Arriola's work now residing at the University of California, Berkeley's Bancroft Library. Published: 29 February http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/02/27_kahn.shtml For this edition of Faculty Nightstand, Vicky Kahn, of the department of English and comparative literature, describes a novel by a modern writer whose works are likely to become part of the literary canon: South African novelist J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. Published: 27 February http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/02/15_grammy.shtml"> <rssT>Music student adds kudos to his CV - a Grammy</rssT> </a> </span><br> <rssD>As a musician and a scholar, "I'm very much about saying 'we're here,' " says American Indian singer and composer John-Carlos Perea. Over the weekend that message of Native survival got a worldwide stage, when the Paul Winter Consort CD Crestone - featuring contributions from the UC Berkeley doctoral student - won a Grammy for Best New Age Album.</rssD><br> <span class="date">(<rssDt>15 February</rssDt>)</span></p> <p><span class="headline"> <rssL><a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/02/14_ballet.shtml The State Ballet of Georgia launches its first-ever U.S. tour at UC Berkeley Feb. 14, presented by Cal Performances at Zellerbach Hall in shows that run through Sunday. The ballet's American visit highlights the once-struggling troupe's resurgence after an era of political repression and economic deprivation Published: 14 February