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/2009/11/05_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/2009/11/05_gradlectures.shtml Published: 05 November http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/11/04_finchhicks.shtml Linda Finch Hicks, administrative manager in the history department, died Sunday, Nov. 1 at Alta Bates Hospital of pancreatic cancer. She was 55. Published: 04 November http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/11/02_benefits.shtml The University of California President's Task Force on Post-Employment Benefits will hold a forum on Tuesday, Nov. 10, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in Sibley Auditorium in Bechtel Engineering Center, for staff to ask questions and weigh in on the future of the university's pension and retiree health programs. Published: 02 November http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/10/28_bloggers.shtml A growing number of campus scholars are using Web 2.0 blogging tools to reach a larger audience, create intellectual community, and be more proactive in relation to the media. Published: 28 October http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/10/28_athletics.shtml The Berkeley division of the Academic Senate will focus next week on the contributions and costs of the campus's Intercollegiate Athletics program. The Senate's fall meeting will host a fact-based discussion, debate, and exchange among faculty, Athletics Director Sandy Barbour, and Nathan Brostrom, vice chancellor for Administration. Published: 28 October http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/10/26_berkeley_blog_launch.shtml UC Berkeley's best and brightest are often asked to share their insights at the White House, on Wall Street and with the media worldwide. Now, they are furthering that conversation in a new format - The Berkeley Blog. Published: 26 October http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/10/23_goldman.shtml Over the years, the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley has emerged as a leader in proposing solutions to major issues facing society, and now a new $5 million gift from the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund will make it possible for the school to make a greater impact in the world. Published: 23 October http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/10/20_openenrollment.shtml Open enrollment for UC's health-and-welfare benefits runs from Thursday, Oct. 29, through Tuesday, Nov. 24, at 5 p.m. Published: 20 October http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/10/20_imj_hughes.shtml As coordinator of University Health Services' PartySafe@Cal program, Karen Hughes works to curb students' use of booze by focusing on the factors that inform their drinking choices, rather than lecturing them about the dangers of alcohol. Published: 20 October http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/10/14_libe.shtml Thanks to gifts from Berkeley parents, library hours across campus will return to normal, and weekend reductions forced by state funding cuts will end over the next month. Published: 14 October http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/10/14_beer.shtml The Hearst Museum's Beer Symposium and Fair was the third in a series of annual events on the anthropology of food. Published: 14 October http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/10/13_marchant.shtml For more than 20 years, the Marchant Building on San Pablo Avenue has been a de facto warehouse for UC Berkeley. With the building's recent sale, however, the day of reckoning has come. All the stuff must go … somewhere. Published: 13 October http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/10/12_nobel.shtml Williamson, the Edgar F. Kaiser Professor Emeritus of Business Economics, and Law at UC Berkeley, a pioneer of the multi-disciplinary field of transaction cost economics, and one of the world's most cited economists, is a winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics. Published: 12 October http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2009/10/05_adieu.shtml Berkeleyan bids adieu to print Published: 05 October