April 2, 2012, 12:05 AM
You are a big bag of germs. And just by walking into a room, you add 37 million bacteria to the air for every hour you remain there. At least, that’s what researchers at UC Berkeley and Yale University have discovered about the presence of a person in a room. “We live in...
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November 21, 2011, 5:09 PM
The dean of UC Berkeley's College of Engineering expressed support today for a recommendation from a student group that the college create a recruitment and retention plan for women and underrepresented minority students. The move came after representatives from several engineering...
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November 11, 2011, 12:05 AM
Officials at the UC Berkeley College of Engineering plan to meet this month to discuss strategies for making the environment more inclusive following a California Watch report on one female undergraduate’s experience with sexism. In an Oct. 28 story about women in engineering...
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October 28, 2011, 12:05 AM
Female engineering majors attend the same classes, take the same tests and earn equally good grades as men. But a new study in the October issue of the American Sociological Review finds that even though female engineering majors went through the same program as men, they developed less...
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May 19, 2011, 12:05 AM
When Rep. Hilda Solis inserted remarks in the Congressional Record praising Los Angeles activist John Perez as “an asset to the labor movement,” she was recounting the life story of a man who would later become California’s Assembly speaker. “After graduating from the...
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April 15, 2011, 12:05 AM
Full professors at Stanford University make on average $39,000 more than their counterparts at UC Berkeley, reinforcing fears about UC's ability to recruit and retain top professors in the face of deep reductions in state support. A full professor at UC Berkeley makes an average of...
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March 18, 2011, 12:05 AM
Billionaire Bill Gates' critique of the nation's public schools is flawed. That is the view of Richard Rothstein, a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley and senior fellow at the Earl Warren Institute at Berkeley Law School. Rothstein has...
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March 8, 2011, 12:08 AM
After decades of federal support, an acclaimed writing program that began at UC Berkeley 37 years ago, faces a difficult future due to budget cuts agreed to by Congress and the Obama administration. The $25 million elimination of federal funds to the National Writing Project, which...
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March 1, 2011, 12:05 AM
A team of scientists is hoping to end the debate over climate science by bringing it all – their research, models, arguments and analysis – into the open. The Berkeley Earth project is the inspiration of Richard Muller, a UC Berkeley physicist. Frustrated by the debate and...
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February 23, 2011, 12:05 AM
As it gets more funding from the federal government, and less from Sacramento, UC Berkeley is effectively morphing from a state university into a federal university, according to Chancellor Robert Birgeneau. In an interview yesterday, Birgeneau said the transformation will "require...
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February 7, 2011, 12:05 AM
University of California President Mark Yudof has set a target for the Berkeley campus to cut $80.8 million from its budget for the coming year, as the 10-campus university system struggles to come to terms with a $500 million reduction in funds proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown. A cut of...
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October 29, 2010, 12:05 AM
Allies of Syngenta, a company that produces a ubiquitous but controversial herbicide, have continued attacks on UC Berkeley Professor Tyrone Hayes, a leading critic of the chemical who has fought the company through outrageous e-mails laced with rap lyrics, original rhymes and raunchy put-downs....
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August 23, 2010, 12:05 AM
Just as the vaunted U.S. News and World Report rated UC Berkeley as the nation's top public university last week, a less-noticed ranking system from the conservative American Council of Trustees and Alumni gave UC Berkeley an "F" because it only requires students to take one out of...
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August 19, 2010, 12:05 AM
A new report from the National Collegiate Athletics Association shows that Division I athletic programs are spending more money than they earn and are becoming increasingly reliant on their colleges and universities for financial support. The report comes amid increasing pressure for athletic...
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July 22, 2010, 12:05 AM
Assemblyman Chris Norby, R-Fullerton, has introduced a bill that would prohibit the California State University system from requesting DNA samples from enrolled or prospective students for genetic-testing purposes and would ask the University of California to refrain from doing so as well. ...
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