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/2008/06/17_carnegie.shtml Honoring what it called two higher education "visionaries" and "champions of excellence and equity in education," the Carnegie Corporation announced it has awarded UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau and Syracuse University Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor its 2008 Academic Leadership Award. Published: 17 June http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/06/06_breath.shtml At a time when only about half of California's 90-plus indigenous languages have living speakers, a language conference being held this month at the University of California, Berkeley, may help tribal members become the first to speak their endangered tribal languages in 50 years. Published: 06 June http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/04/16_Distinguished.shtml Four professors in the arts and humanities, social sciences and environmental design are recipients of this year's Distinguished Teaching Award at UC Berkeley. Published: 16 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/03/05_admission.shtml The University of California will continue to offer admission in fall 2008 to all undergraduate applicants who meet its eligibility requirements, despite the fact that the governor's budget proposes to cut state funding for the university in 2008-09, UC officials announced last week. Published: 05 March http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/02/27_research.shtml With subscription costs for traditional academic journals on the rise, the newly launched Berkeley Research Impact Initiative offers subsidies to campus scholars wishing to take the open-access publishing route, and hope for a new model of sustainability. Published: 27 February http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/02/27_pace.shtml A new report from Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) says California's public school students lag behind much of the nation in most areas, but have managed to hold steady or improve across subjects and grade levels, with graduation rates also eking upward in era of lagging resources, a growing population and increasing diversity. Published: 27 February http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/02/25_macaward.shtml An online mystery game in which student sleuths will monitor air pollution in South Central Los Angeles and in Cairo, Egypt, and a project using cell phones to teach English to children in India have won funding for two University of California, Berkeley, professors. Published: 25 February http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/01/30_rjb_affordability.shtml Even before Harvard announced plans to extend financial aid to students from families with incomes up to $180,000, Chancellor Birgeneau was addressing the challenge of ensuring that qualified low- and middle-income students could afford to attend UC Berkeley. In this interview with the Berkeleyan, he talks about what he's learned - and what needs to be done. Published: 30 January http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/01/22_bowkerobit.shtml Albert Bowker, a former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, an expert is statistics and an innovative administrator during his decades-long career in higher education across the country, died Sunday in a retirement home in Portola Valley, Calif. He was 88 and had been suffering from pancreatic cancer. Published: 22 January http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/01/17_craigslist.shtml UC Berkeley announced plans on Jan. 17 to establish the first endowed faculty chair at the Berkeley Center for New Media with a donation of $1.6 million from craigslist, one of the most popular Web sites in the world. The donation, which will support research, symposia and lectures, will be matched with $1.5 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for a total of $3.1 million. Published: 17 January http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/12/14_calteach.shtml Officials and students gathered at UC Berkeley Dec. 11 to celebrate a $2.4 million grant from the National Science & Math Initiative to the Cal Teach program, which promotes science and math teaching among Berkeley's science, math and engineering undergraduates. Published: 14 December http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/10/25_CalTeach.shtml Science and math education in the United States may be viewed as flawed experiments lately, but some 200 University of California, Berkeley, students majoring in math, science and engineering may help fix that through a new program promoting teaching of these crucial subjects. Published: 25 October http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2007/10/17_miller.shtml "This is the greatest investment I've ever made," says George A. Miller about the program he founded to help low-income, first-generation community-college transfer students make the adjustment to life at Berkeley. "And I was in investment banking for 35 years." Published: 17 October http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/10/05_dynes.shtml The 'power of 10' keeps the University resilient in the face of 'dark forces,' Dynes tells faculty Published: 05 October http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2007/09/19_opinion.shtml The shortest-lived controversy in recent UC history is over - isn't it? Two Boalt Hall professors share their opinions on the Drake/Chemerinsky brouhaha at UC Irvine. Published: 19 September