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Dire climate forecast inspires upbeat film about solutions for a warmer ‘Tomorrow’
Anthony Barnosky's warning of climate tipping point inspires French filmmakers to focus on solutions for 'Tomorrow'
Cal Nourish, giving a holiday gift of food
UC Berkeley is offering food gift-card sales as a way to help students who struggle to cover their food costs, especially around the holidays. The deadline to take part in this year's Cal Nourish program is Friday, Dec. 11.
UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab and Tsinghua team up to tackle climate change
Institutions establish Berkeley Tsinghua Joint Research Center on Energy and Climate Change
Notes from Paris: COP21 initial impressions
Reporting from Paris on Day 2 of the U.N. climate summit, 2015 Berkeley grad Noah Deich describes enthusiastic support for climate action in principle, and under-the-radar interest in removing carbon already in the atmosphere, through sequestration and other technologies.
One grad student’s story: from English lit to global climate talks
Valeri Vasquez is a graduate student with UC Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group. She is taking time off from her graduate work to spend time is Paris, acting as counselor to the co-chair of the United Nations climate negotiations, Daniel Reifsnyder.
Construction to begin on Berkeley Way West complex
Construction is scheduled to begin this month on an eight-story complex in downtown Berkeley to house the campus's Graduate School of Education, School of Public Health and the Department of Psychology.
Film with ties to Berkeley wins ‘best short doc’ at Red Nation festival
Tribal elder Harry Williams, a UC Berkeley community scholar, shared the stage with director and Cal alum Jenna Cavelle as "Paya: The Water Story of the Paiute" won “best short doc" at the 2015 Red Nation Film Festival.
Energy: Recommended reads for 2015
With the global warming in the headlines and the holidays on the near horizon, environmental economics expert Catherine Wolfram offers a timely list of readable books concerning energy.
AMP Lab: Solving big data’s problems
At the 4-year-old AMPLab at UC Berkeley, highly collaborative efforts tackle some of the biggest problems in the world of Big Data — and have come up with blockbuster, open-source systems.
CRISPR inventor calls for pause in editing heritable genes
At international summit in Washington Dec. 1-3, Jennifer Doudna and others discuss the ethical and societal issues surrounding germline gene editing
Exiled exoplanet likely kicked out of star’s neighborhood
An exoplanet unusually far from its star may have been kicked out of its birthplace, Gemini Planet Imager reveals
Berkeley at the Paris climate talks
UC Berkeley faculty and students have taken their expertise to Paris this week for the historic COP21 conference, where the world is grappling with climate change.
‘Why I’m going to COP21’ in two words: carbon removal
Cal grad Noah Deich is headed for the 2015 U.N climate summit in Paris, where he'll spotlight carbon removal (of carbon already in the atmosphere) as a means to reduce global warming. Deich, who earned his M.B.A. this year, directs a new nonprofit, the Center for Carbon Removal, and is posting updates on its site.
Grad student, ‘excited and curious,’ heads for climate summit
Graduate student Ian Bollinger, who studies climate change and its effects on snowpack and water management -- and is part of a Berkeley team designing a sustainable tiny house -- discusses the 2015 U.N. climate summit and related events he'll attend in Paris.
Missing link between turbulence in collapsing star, hypernovae and gamma-ray bursts
A supercomputer simulation shows how turbulence in a collapsing star can fuel a hypernova explosion and bright gamma-ray burst
Report: California’s ailing K-12 facilities need funding fix
With forecasts of a super wet California winter, findings released today by UC Berkeley’s for Cities and Schools may set off alarms: more than half of the state’s K-12 public school districts fail to meet
Coming to a monitor near you: a defect-free, molecule-thick film
Researchers overcome barrier to use of material in transparent displays, nanoscale transistors and more
In Rim Fire’s wake, fungi hold hope for rebirth
New research points the way for forest regneration after the catastrophic 2013 Yosemite fire
Public radio to air the many ways to say ‘thank you’
Public radio show looks at appreciation from the perspective of chimpanzees, businesses and Samaritans
‘Connector hubs’ are the champions of brain coordination
To hit a fastball, or perform other complex tasks, these hubs do most of the heavy lifting.