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students will gather at the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) on Thursday, (Oct. 2) to watch the vice presidential candidates' debate. The IGS event is co-sponsored by two student groups: the Berkeley College Republicans and Cal Berkeley Democrats. It will take place 6 to 7:30 p.m. in...

By blindelof@sacbee.com (Bill Lindelof) Friends and families mourn after Rodrigo "Rod" Rodriguez Jr. was killed outside an Oak Park barbershop on Sept. 17, 2007. The slain man will be honored today with a memorial certificate" from UC Berkeley in lieu of a degree in recognition of his academic accomplishments.

Global warming is causing major shifts in the range of small mammals in Yosemite National Park, one of the nation's treasures that was set aside as a public trust 144 years ago, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, biologists.

 CA - Ralph Freeman has killed cats and kittens in his laboratory at UC Berkeley with no benefit for humans for over twenty years. ...

By Charles Huckabee Berkeley City College, which is part of California’s Peralta Community College District, has been ordered to repay more than $327,000 in extra federal financial aid it gave to students, The Contra Costa Times reported. College officials acknowledged that the district was repaying th...

 CA - Kreisler does intense reading in preparation for talking with each of his guests, most of whom are visitors to the UC Berkeley campus. ...

Inland Empire News  CA - It was a collaboration between professors at UC Berkeley, University of Southern California, UC Riverside and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. ... Study: Asian-Americans key in presidential election Inland Empire News all 2 news articles

 - Dr Millett has received his BS in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and his PhD in chemistry from Stanford University. ...

 CA - By Carol Yur For UC Berkeley graduate student Steven Barcelo, what seemed like an exciting new start in his life-moving with his fiancee into a home in a ...

News > University > Academics and Administration :: Campus officials announced on Friday the launch of the Berkeley-India Joint Leadership on Energy and Environment, a partnership between the campus, Lawrence Berkeley National ...

  USA - 6 pm Ethnic Studies Library, UC Berkeley, 30 Stephens Hall, Berkeley. (510) 642-3947. Talks about "A Persistent Peace." 7:30 pm Capitola Book Cafe, ... Book and author events in your neighborhood for the week of Oct. 5 Los Angeles Times all 2 news articles

 CA - The photos, both on posters and as part of a larger display on the Plaza, show UC Berkeley students and faculty of every shape and size in peaceful, ...

 CA - By Valerie Woolard In the 10 years that have passed since Jake Zim graduated from UC Berkeley, he has gone from lacrosse player and history major to the ...

 CA - The university finds money for everything but it can't find money for workers or students," said Maria Ventura, a UC Berkeley employee for 24 years. ...

 CA - The entire campus community can sample Berkeley’s academic excellence at a range of faculty seminars on Friday and Saturday. Seminar subjects include the ...

Sacramento News & Review, CA - We first met on the picket lines at UC Berkeley during the Free Speech Movement in the mid-1960s. In those early days, he had comfortably positioned himself ...

Topic: Sponsored by Students for Free Culture and Free Culture Berkeley Type: Conference Start Date/Time: Sat, 2008-10-11 09:00 End Date/Time: Sun, 2008-10-12 18:00 Location: Chevron Auditorium, International House, UC Berkeley Abstract: What is Free Culture? Free Culture is a m...

 CA - serve the university as well. It is understandable that many UC Berkeley students and newly graduated professionals are disengaged from local issues. ...

By Kimberly Lau via Laughing Squid]        Escape From Berkeley (By Any Non-Petroleum Means Necessary) is an alternative-fueled road rally that starts October 10th and ends October 13th. The rally begins in Berkeley, California, and finishes in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Sahara. Contestants are requir...

Boston (dbTechno) - University of California, Berkeley professor Robert Tijan has been named as the new president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is one of the largest private funders of ...

By Lessig From Students for Free Culture: Free Culture 2008 Conference October 11-12, 2008 Chevron Auditorium, International House 2299 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley CA http://conference.freeculture.org What's Free Culture? Free Culture is a movement focused on creativity and innovation, commu...

By Nestor With key returning starters and All-American candidate Ryan Anderson leading the team, Cal was expected to challenge for the Pac-10 title this season, instead it has been disappointing season for the players, coaches and its fans in Berkeley.

By webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Vikram Chandra) Vikram Chandra's best-selling Sacred Games was published in 2007. His previous works include Love and Longing in Bombay and Red Earth and Pouring Rain. The New York Times has praised "the Dickensian sweep" of his depictions of life in Mumbai, and Kirkus Reviews raves, "Chandra's writing...

VèVè Amasasa Clark - created Africa diaspora studies at UC Berkeley   USA - Professor Clark was on the African American studies faculty at UC Berkeley for 16 years, serving as a professor, mentor and champion for black scholarship. ...

By mark 50 people held a prayer vigil this evening at the site of the sacred oaks on the UC Berkeley campus, demanding that they be preserved to honor the Ohlone people who used the area as a burial ground. Supplies were delivered to the tree-sitters, while protesters lit candles and burned sage. Sec...

By Jennifer Ouellette There's a lot of really big ideas contained in those two sentences, more than we can even attempt to discuss intelligently in a single blog post. Vast tomes have been written about this, countless papers are published each year in academic journals -- including the one describing the late...

UC-Berkeley protesters can stay in trees  - BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 14 Protesters, their propane tanks and assorted sanitary issues, can stay in an oak grove near University of California-Berkeley's ...

UC Berkeley campus police arrested two people Wednesday trying to resupply protestors in a grove of oak trees.

By Sean Aqui The latest issue of Scientific American has a informative article on the current state of climate science: why we know the earth is warming, and why we know human activity is partly to blame. The authors are William Collins of UC-Berkeley; Robert Colman, an Australian; James Haywood of th...

By Seth Roberts I recently met an undergraduate named Samantha who is majoring in Economics at UC Berkeley. She is almost done. I asked her a few questions about her education: SR: Did UC Berkeley help you figure out what you were good... SR: Did UC Berkeley help you figure out what you enjoy doing?

By T. Michael Testi Country Joe and the Fish were founded in the San Francisco area in 1965-66 as a political device; partially of necessity, and partially for entertainment when the Free Speech Movement was organizing a series of demonstrations on the Berkeley campus against the war in Vietnam. Joe McDona...

By Seth Roberts One recent Dean of the College of Letters and Science (also a professor) began his tenure as dean, she told me, by giving a talk in which he emphasized his belief that students were "gaming the system." He acted on this belief by rigidly enforcing the rules, with few exceptions. (Many Berkele...

By ejskolnick A: They did not put a microphone in front of me, let me stress that. I am there, just kind of hanging in the background. I am hanging around during Hangin' Around. But sometimes, they'll have moroccas or a tamborine, and I'll just grab it to make it look like I'm being productive, when I'm really n...

By Jay Rosen Henry teaches journalism at UC Berkeley, after a distinguished career at the Washington Post. He has a new book out, American Carnival ("Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media.") According to this account, Henry almost became dean at the Berkeley J-School.

By David Pescovitz David Pescovitz: The Shipyard is a unique collective for artists and makers in Berkeley, California where the residents build out shops inside shipping containers. Over the years, the city of Berkeley has given the Shipyard lots of problems, even denying them access to the electrical g...

The state Attorney General's Office has denied Berkeley's request for a stay on an off-track wagering facility to be constructed in neighboring Toms River. In a letter from Attorney General Stuart Rabner to Berkeley Township attorney Patrick Sheehan, dated April 25, 2007, Rabner stat...

By David Pescovitz David Pescovitz: UC Berkeley researchers are designing a millimeter-long robotic flea that uses a tiny rubber band to launches itself into the air. The current prototype is seven millimeters long and tests have shown that it could jump 20 centimeters off the ground. The graduate student...

By editor This may sound like I'm shilling for Ledger's Liquors (Berkeley, CA), but in fact, proprietor Ed Ledger and his wife, Susan, stock a primo list of beers – enough to make me a regular. But now, WOW. They have begun stocking Hop Back Summer Lightning.

California took a small step backward last season, but football fever in Berkeley is still going strong.In fact, a lot of Cal fans, fired up by the electrifying running backs and the strong-armed defenders, think this is the season they've been waiting for since Jeff Tedford took over a mo...

Responding to a news story about former Chancellor Robert Berdahl, UC Berkeley Associate Vice Chancellor George Strait details Chancellor Robert Birgeneau's decision about compensation for Berdahl's recent sabbatical leave, and explains why it was in the best interests of the uni...

 CA - The statement was signed by President David Baltimore, California Institute of Technology; President Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard University; President Susan ... Peter E. Haas, Sr., a legendary supporter and cherished friend of ... UC Berkeley all 2 related

In a statement mourning the death of his friend Peter Haas, Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau eulogizes a gracious and forceful man who left a lasting mark on his beloved university. "We are diminished and profoundly saddened by his passing,"

 CA - The University of California, Berkeley, will hold a public scoping session Thursday on the environmental impact report associated with plans to renovate the ... UC Berkeley holds public meetings on renovations Tri-Valley Herald

  USA - BERKELEY, Calif. - Criticism of how the University of California rewards top employees has prompted state legislators to schedule hearings next spring on the 10 ... State senator calls for hearings on UC pay San Francisco Chronicle all 8 related

  USA - BERKELEY, Calif. - University of California, Berkeley, officials have lifted a ban on alcohol at fraternity and sorority events for most Greek organizations. ... Campus officials lift alcohol ban for most Greek organizations UC Berkeley all 8 related

UC BerkeleyCal student wins Marshall award  CA - BERKELEY — A University of California, Berkeley student who developed clinics in the West Bank to educate people about diabetes and to give diabetics a place ... Berkeley student wins prestigious Marshall Scholarship UC Berkeley

12 against officials of the University of California, Berkeley and the National Science Foundation over religious statements on the “Understanding Evolution ... Evolution fight flares at UC-Berkeley United Press International

Facing the joint stresses of being a computer science grad student and a parent, Ginger Ogle drew on her programming skills to found the Berkeley Parents Network, a virtual forum for sharing advice and resources. Now, a dozen years later, the BPN gets more than 40,000 visits a day with its c...

AP) - A California couple has sued the operators of a University of California-Berkeley Web site designed to help teachers teach evolution, claiming it improperly strays into religion. Jeanne and Larry Caldwell of Granite Bay say ...