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/2009/05/15_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 http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/03/19_foreign.shtml Most foreign nationals studying at universities in the United States say American higher education is the best in the world, but few plan to remain in this country after graduation to pursue their careers, according to a new study co-authored by a UC Berkeley, authority on technology and the global economy. Published: 19 March http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2009/03/11_pedagogy.shtml While technology has revolutionized the classroom, the past decade has seen a wave of new research on how people learn. Barbara Gross Davis rewrote her 1993 Tools for Teaching to address both these developments. Published: 11 March http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2009/03/04_Stiles.shtml It's a student-services center, a cauldron of social causes, an incubator for campus and community initiatives, and an important contributor to Berkeley's diversity. Published: 04 March http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/03/03_kepler-lhs.shtml Just as NASA's Kepler mission and its search for habitable planets has grabbed the public's attention, Alan Gould hopes that the mission will galvanize student interest in science as well. Since 2001, Gould, coordinator of the Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS) space science programs, has been gearing up for launch as Kepler's co-investigator for education and public outreach. Published: 03 March http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/02/10_elcc.shtml Ten teams from top business schools around the country will set their sights on improving the public school system in the nation's capitol in the third annual Education Leadership Case Competition at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business on Feb. 20-21. Published: 10 February http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/12/11_BILD.shtml The Berkeley Initiative for Leadership on Diversity reaches farther in year two. Published: 11 December http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/12/03_prep.shtml CAL Prep gets kids ready for Cal - and Cal ready for those kids. Published: 03 December http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/12/03_initiative.shtml Helping schools and departments think through what their undergrads should know. Published: 03 December http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/12/03_highed.shtml To dig out of recession, campus researcher advises, expand access to colleges and universities for tomorrow's 'human capital' Published: 03 December http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/12/02_cortex.shtml Children from well-off families have an inherent advantage over those from poor families, but new research shows an added plus. The brains of kids from low socioeconomic levels show decreased activity in the prefrontal cortex - which governs attention and deals with novel situations - compared to the brains of children from high socioeconomic levels. Published: 02 December