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Stories for Jan. 19, 2000

  
Five Faculty Set Up $1 Million Magnet Fund

  
Berkeley Profs Speak Out on AOL/Time Warner Merger

  
Landscape Architecture Professor Selected to Serve As Jurist for Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Design

  
High-Velocity Clouds Between Galaxies Are Building Blocks of Milky Way

  
Berkeley Spotlight Focuses on International Human Rights

  
Infotainment Traced to Historical Figure

  
Berkeley, LBNL Scientists Snap First 3-D Pictures of the "Heart" of the Genetic Transcription Machine

  
Former Commander of Oakland Naval Supply Center, Kurt Libby, Now Leads Materiel Management

  
Nobelist Czeslaw Milosz Gives Rare Reading of His Own Poetry

  
History of Campus and Area Architecture and Design Explored in New Exhibits

  
Campus Seeks Nominees for Institute Director

  
Collection of Conversations With Berkeley Profs Captures the Spirit of the University

  
Design Competition for Campus AIDS Memorial is Under Way


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Photo of the Week: Back to the Books

Photo: Back to the Books

Freshman Ariane Helou reads her French homework during a sunny Thursday afternoon on faculty glade last semester. Classes resumed Jan. 18, so expect to see more scenes like this. Noah Berger photo.





Top Story: Five Faculty Set Up $1 Million Magnet Fund

Five founders of an international consulting firm specializing in economics and finance -- all of them Berkeley professors -- have pledged $1 million to attract the best graduate students and faculty members to campus.

The donors have designated their gift for students in economics, agricultural and natural resource economics, and business. The fund also is intended to support graduate-level research in economics and business.

These faculty members established the Law and Economics Consulting Group, better known as LECG, a leading firm in the field of applied economics and finance. It is one of the world's largest private sector employers of Ph.D. economists and financial economists.

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January 19 - 25, 2000 (Volume 28, Number 18)
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