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/2009/10/20_latino_toddlers.shtml Two new studies led by UC Berkeley researchers find that immigrant Latina mothers, who typically live in poor neighborhoods, give birth to healthy babies, but their toddlers start to lag behind middle-class white children in basic language and cognitive skills by the age of 2 or 3. Published: 20 October http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/09/08_honorarydegrees.shtml Approximately 500 Japanese Americans, whose education at UC Berkeley was interrupted by a 1942 executive order that confined about 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry to internment camps, are eligible to receive honorary degrees at a special campus ceremony on Sunday, Dec. 13. Published: 08 September http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/09/03_loanforgiveness.shtml In an effort to help its students and alumni during the current economic crisis, the UC Berkeley School of Law has significantly strengthened its Loan Repayment Assistance Program, already one of the nation's most generous loan forgiveness plans. Published: 03 September http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/09/01_schoolintegration.shtml A new UC Berkeley-UCLA report says the Berkeley Unified School District's plan to maintain diversity could serve as a model for other public schools nationwide that are seeking constitutionally sound desegregation programs. Not only has the integration plan achieved substantial integration, it was upheld earlier this year by the state appellate court, a decision that the California Supreme Court allowed to stand. Published: 01 September http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/08/21_usnews.shtml U.S. News & World Report's 2010 guide to "America's Best Colleges," released yesterday, ranked Berkeley 21st among 262 public and private "national universities" offering doctoral degrees. Published: 21 August http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/08/12_mcnair.shtml Last weekend 300 undergrads from around the country converged on the Berkeley campus for the four-day McNair Scholars symposium, where they shared research findings in a wide range of fields, from sociology to bioscience, and celebrated their completion of the program and their ambitions for grad school and the future. Published: 12 August http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/08/04_lawschool.shtml The LSAT, in tandem with GPA, the gold standard for U.S. law-school admissions, may do a great job identifying potentially stellar law students - but picking the ones who will ultimately make the best lawyers takes a broader approach, according to groundbreaking research by two Berkeley experts. Published: 04 August http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/07/28_matterhorn.shtml As a growing number of worldwide learners log on, free of charge, to video and podcast lectures and events at UC Berkeley, the campus is leading an international effort to build a communal Webcasting platform to more easily record and distribute its popular educational content. Published: 28 July http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/07/24_ucbrip.shtml In a July 22 blog post on the Atlantic website, correspondent Erik Tarloff decried the impending cuts at UC Berkeley, resulting from California's budget crisis, as a "great tragedy" whose damage is "likely to be irreversible." Chancellor Robert Birgeneau responds. Published: 24 July http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/07/06_moorea.shtml Graduate student Brad Balukjian spent a year teaching biodiversity to Tahitian 5th graders on the island of Moorea while pursuing study of the island's endemic insects. Published: 06 July http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/05/15_ucbcuts.shtml With a slate of critical ballot propositions facing voters on Tuesday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday offered two revised scenarios for mending the state's worsening budget outlook. One is bad news for the University of California. The other, for some, is too grim to contemplate. Published: 15 May http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2009/05/07_mentor.shtml A recent round of awards honor the campus's invaluable graduate-student instructors . . . and the faculty who mentor them. Published: 07 May http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2009/04/09_cultures.shtml "Tough conversations" about race and ethnicity occur almost daily at Berkeley, many of them in classes designed to meet a campus requirement dating to the late 1980s. Published: 09 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/03/26_teacherpay.shtml New ways of compensating teachers in an era of ferocious budget shortfalls will be the topic of discussion for about 400 school superintendents, leaders of teacher organizations and school board members from across California at conferences next Monday and Tuesday (March 30-31) in Oakland and Los Angeles. Published: 26 March http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/03/20_gspp.shtml Political scientist Henry E. Brady, a leading scholar of public opinion, political movements, politics and public policy in the United States, Canada, Russia, Estonia and other countries, has been appointed dean of the University of California, Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy. Published: 20 March