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/2009/06/15_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Published: 23 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/04/21_twain.shtml As a collection of 24 previously unpublished works by Samuel Clemens - aka Mark Twain - hits bookstore shelves, the general editor of the Bancroft Library's Mark Twain Papers & Project says Clemens is very much still worth reading. Published: 21 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/04/20_AAAS.shtml Four UC Berkeley professors are among the latest leaders in the arts, humanities and sciences named fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences today (Monday, April 20). Published: 20 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2009/04/02_butler.shtml A leading voice in the developing intellectual field of critical theory has received a $1.5 million Mellon Foundation award that she'll use to create a “Thinking Critically About War” program at Berkeley. Published: 02 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/04/02_ito.shtml Acclaimed Japanese architect Toyo Ito will visit the UC Berkeley campus this month to discuss contemporary Japanese architecture and to attend an open house about the new Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, which he designed. Published: 02 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/03/19_butler.shtml Judith Butler, a UC Berkeley professor of comparative literature and rhetoric, is a winner of the 2008 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award. Published: 19 March http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2009/03/19_twain.shtml Though held back from publication by Twain himself, these varied pieces, his anthologizer says, are “well crafted, clear, and wickedly funny.” Published: 19 March http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/03/17_twain.shtml Fans of another famous author, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, best known by his pen name, Mark Twain, will likely be lining up for "Who is Mark Twain?" - an intriguing collection of two dozen previously unpublished sketches and essays by Twain that will be in bookstores on April 21. The materials come from The Mark Twain Papers and Project at UC Berkeley. Published: 17 March http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/03/03_arzabe.shtml Grad-student artist Miguel Arzabe explores his complicated appreciation of nature using a wide assortment of media - paint, video, laser etchings, online social-networking tools, public enactments and installations, and the Etch A Sketch. Published: 03 March