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Five faculty honored for distinguished teaching

Mon., 2017-03-20 03:04pm
A ceremony on April 19 will honor the five UC Berkeley faculty who have been selected as recipients of the 2017 Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus’s most prestigious honor for teaching

Forestry Club students reforest Tightwad Hill

Mon., 2017-03-20 02:24pm
Taking advantage of a recent break in the rain, members of the UC Berkeley Forestry Club joined staff from UC’s grounds department and the campus landscape architect to plant new trees on Tightwad Hill. The

Survey results show how the campus commutes

Mon., 2017-03-20 01:25pm
Results of a survey completed by 6,000 students, faculty and staff show a continued decrease in single drivers in cars and increased use of transit

First-gen students pack inaugural career conference

Mon., 2017-03-20 12:00pm
The March 18 First-Generation Career Conference was the first ever held in the UC system.

Library commits to accelerating universal open access

Mon., 2017-03-20 11:43am
The University Library took a major step today in its commitment to achieving universal open access for scholarly journal literature by signing the OA2020 Expression of Interest, in collaboration with UC Davis and UC San Francisco

Iranian American comic Maz Jobrani to keynote Berkeley commencement

Mon., 2017-03-20 08:00am
He uses comedy to combat stereotypes of immigrants from the Middle East, often drawing from his own experiences

Makeathon to build tech for people with disabilities

Fri., 2017-03-17 02:44pm
The Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation will be taken over by nearly 100 makers for a three-day technology-building marathon

Stressed out by the news? Nature videos will make you happier

Thu., 2017-03-16 12:22pm
Being out in wild nature has been shown to reduce stress and lift our spirits. But does watching nature documentaries have a similar effect? A study from UC Berkeley and BBC Earth suggests so.

Introducing UC Berkeley’s 11th chancellor: Carol Tecla Christ

Thu., 2017-03-16 11:00am
A popular, highly regarded administrator and scholar, she will be the first female chancellor in Berkeley’s 149-year history

Hawaiian biodiversity has been declining for millions of years

Thu., 2017-03-16 08:30am
Because of constantly shrinking land area, the older islands have been losing bird, insect and plant species for millions of years

Energy Biosciences Institute signs multimillion-dollar partnership with Shell to fund new energy technology research

Wed., 2017-03-15 08:58am
UC Berkeley’s Energy Biosciences Institute and Shell have entered into a five-year research agreement to spend up to $25 million USD over five years on fundamental research in the areas of global energy transition and new energy technology.

Barbara Lee, at Berkeley, talks about health inequality, the ACA and the GOP

Tue., 2017-03-14 02:46pm
The East Bay Democratic congresswoman brought the fight over federal health policy to campus Monday, speaking at a forum held by the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine

Vigil held for Guatemalan girls killed in children’s home fire

Mon., 2017-03-13 05:00pm
Dozens gathered at Sather Gate Monday to mourn the lives of 40 Guatemalan girls who were killed when a government-run children’s home caught fire, reportedly set in protest against abuse at the center.

Does lactate, the bane of athletes, help drive cancer?

Mon., 2017-03-13 05:00pm
Exercise experts argue that lactate or lactic acid may fuel cancer cells

Carol Christ named UC Berkeley chancellor-designate, pending regents’ approval

Sun., 2017-03-12 05:00pm
The UC Regents will vote on Christ's nomination this Thursday, March 16

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor pays a visit

Fri., 2017-03-10 12:29pm
After talking with students at Berkeley Law, the justice capped her day with an on-stage conversation with Interim Law Dean Melissa Murray — her former clerk — before a full house in Zellerbach Hall

Berkeley engineers join $24 million push for craniofacial repair therapies

Thu., 2017-03-09 08:44am
Berkeley joins six other California universities to treat and repair craniofacial disease and damage. The consortium has been awarded $12 million by the NIH, part of a larger $24 million effort to develop strategies for treating craniofacial defects, which affect millions of Americans.

Oral delivery system could make vaccinations needle-free

Wed., 2017-03-08 11:00am
New technology developed at UC Berkeley could one day let patients give themselves vaccinations by holding a pill-sized capsule called a MucoJet inside their mouth and jet-releasing a stream of vaccine, removing the need for injections

Campus rallies for International Women’s Day

Tue., 2017-03-07 04:00pm
Sun beamed down on Lower Sproul Plaza Wednesday as women and women’s allies, many clad in red and pink hats, took the mic to read poems, sing songs and speak from the heart.

UC Berkeley, power company Enel launch innovation hub

Tue., 2017-03-07 01:30pm
The Enel Innovation Hub joins the CITRIS and the Banatao Institute at UC Berkeley to foster collaboration with promising Berkeley-affiliated startups. The hub will scout startups to join the hub and develop business projects with the fledgling companies in the United States and internationally.

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