University of California, Berkeley

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By Rubble Rubble interviews U.C. Berkeley clerical worker Toni Mendocino, a member of the Coalition of University Employees and Campus Radical Women. Toni gives an overview of the issues faced by students, faculty, and other campus workers, along with demands and upcoming activist actions. (8:15...

By Rubble Rubble interviews U.C. student Marika Goodrich on problematic student conditions, educational demands, and solidarity with faculty and other campus workers. Marika is in her Senior year of undergraduate education, concentrating in American Studies. She also interns with AFSCME Loca...

By Rubble Rubble interviews Toni Mendocino, U. C. Berkeley clerical worker, Coalition of University Employees and Campus Radical Women; Katherine Lee, U.C. Berkeley Lecturer (contract status teaching staff), College Writing Programs, on working conditions for the faculty and other workers al...

By Wex Seemingly out of nowhere, a horribly ugly assault on women and reproductive rights is happening right now at UC Berkeley. A Christian fundamentalist and Christian fascist road show calling itself the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform CBRMidwest@cbrinfo.org arrived at Sproul Plaza early...

By m OCCUPY THE CRISIS!: the emerging student-worker direct action movement in california (a summary commissioned by the antioch rebel newspaper from a participant in the ucsc actions) On Sept. 24, thousands of students, faculty, and staff walked out of University of California campuses...

By UCB talk today The Invention Of The Jewish Pe Tuesday Oct 13 4PM The Invention Of The Jewish People THE INVENTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE START DATE: Tuesday October 13 TIME: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Location Details: U.C. BERKELEY, 3335 Dwinelle Hall, University of California, Berkeley Free and open to the public Event Type: Speaker TALKS BY PR...

By Rubble On Saturday, October 3rd, Berkeley Liberation Radio DJs and other activists held an event in Peoples Park to push for a Single Payer Healthcare System as an alternative to war. Activists spoke out on health care reform and other activist issues. Blues legend and East Bay resident Jackie Pa...

By BJS Berkeley -- A study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has identified critical biochemical pathways linked to the aging of human muscle. By manipulating these pathways, the researchers were able to turn back the clock on old human muscle, restoring its abili...

By Eric Klein of KPFA Eric Klein of KPFA recorded audio of faculty, students and staff rallying at Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus to protest the cuts.

In two recently published research papers, Berkeley researchers report that older women can achieve the same health benefits from regular, vigorous exercise as do their younger counterparts.

By jhenke Tom Leonard, University Librarian, UC Berkeley; Jason Schultz, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, UC Berkeley School of Law; Michael Zimmer, Assistant Professor of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

In 1959, only two years after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik and ignited the space race, UC Berkeley created a laboratory devoted to space science that has grown to be one of the most active academic space research labs in the country. Published: 28 August

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Mr. Olson received his law degree in 1965 from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) where he was a member of the California Law Review and Order of the Coif. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of the Pacific, ...

A trio of researchers at UC Berkeley are up-and-coming scientists to watch, according to a newly released 2009 list of Top Young Innovators Under 35. Published: 18 August

By dave id audio 32:48) Kelly from Oakland Copwatch speaks about what they are doing to monitor police activity. There is a training on April 29th at the Intertribal Friendship House. Yvetter from BAMN talks about their upcoming Public Tribunal at UC Berkeley on April 22nd. Chuck, a media consultant...

 MA This bottom-up approach to tissue engineering, developed by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley, provides a new solution to one of field's biggest problems: the creation of multicellular ...

By BJS Berkeley -- Even as debate rages over the safety of Australia's "Prepare, stay and defend, or leave early" policy of wildfire defense, fire researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and in Australia say that the strategy is worth consideration in California and other reg...

By rss@youtube.com (shadowchef117) Engineering for kids held at UC Berkeley, teaching kids how to build dams out of mud Author: shadowchef117 Keywords: UC Berkeley E4K Engineering for Kids Added: February 21, 2009

By rss@youtube.com (livestrong) The Shangri-La Diet was created by Seth Roberts, an associate professor of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. Learn how to make healthy food choices for the Shangri-La Diet from a licensed dietician and nutritionist in this health and nutrition video.

By Dave(noreply@blogger.com) If Berkeley brings anything to Washington, it's that there are times when the government must intervene in the economy," said graduate student Jonathan Rose, who has studied under Romer. Berkeley's influence extends to other fields. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu, directo...

By Ashby Jones Next week, Berkeley’s City Council is slated to vote whether to demand the United States charge Yoo with war crimes. Yoo, as many of you likely recall, wrote the memos offering legal justification for torture while he worked in the Bush White House from 2001 to 2003. Here’s the story from the...

By Dave(noreply@blogger.com) FACTS & STATS: Site: Memorial Stadium (71,799) -- Berkeley, California. Television: FSN. Home Record: Washington 0-7, Cal 6-0. Away Record: Washington 0-4, Cal 1-4. Neutral Record: Washington 0-0, Cal 0-0. Conference Record: Washington 0-8, Cal 5-3. Series Record: Washington leads...

Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau's proposal for a University of California tuition policy that would allow Berkeley to charge nearly $2,000 a year more than other campuses is another reminder of the worst-kept secret in California education: Some UC campuses are more equal than...

By Andrew Leonard My kids and I drove to Southern California (from Berkeley) and back this past weekend to visit my grandmother. Three tanks of gas in total -- averaging roughly $2.35 a gallon. At 16 gallons a tank, the cost of gasoline for the whole trip came to about $113.

In addition, he is the namesake of Hilgard Hall, home of the Department of Soil Science at Berkeley, and the Hilgard Chair at Berkeley’s Greek Theater. “And others, including the dairy industry, took up the cause to create the farm”—referring to the University Farm that accepted its firs...

At Berkeley Repertory Theatre, acclaimed actor Delroy Lindo is returning to the powerful play that earned him a Tony nomination - Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson - and, as the show's director, he has chosen four local children to perform with a cast of accomplished profession...

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If you're cooking with children, you can entrust them with the job. Their little fingers are ideal for this type of work Chef Russell Moore Chez Panisse, Berkeley, CA Ingredients: 1 spring onion, sliced 2 tablespoons olive oil ...

Cheap, plentiful, good and fast, with an imaginative selection of salads and sandwiches. Had a chicken and avocado sandwich which was excellent and less than five bucks. The plac...

A Smarter Supercomputer  MA - But now, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in Berkeley, CA, have designed a new type of supercomputer that could be powerful enough to ...

Shooting emergencies: UC police are trained to respond; learn what ...  CA - Feb 20, 2008 At UC Berkeley, the UC Police Department is trained for such emergencies, and offers online tips for the campus community on how to respond if a shooting ...

By erik_flannestad When I used to work at the Westside Bakery Cafe in Berkeley, CA, one of my favorite lunch items was a warm spinach salad with lentils and feta. You’ll need: 1 cup of lentils, an onion or two, a carrot, a can of tomatoes, some garlic, ...

By www.StopBP-Berkeley.org An Environmental Impact Report Hearing was held for UC Berkeley's planned Helios Building and the EBI (Energy Biosciences Institute) on December 17th, 2007, at the North Berkeley Senior Center. The building will be established with $500 million of Bloody Profits from British Petrole...

Tree-Sitters Celebrate One-Year Anniversary  CA - The mood was festive, if at times surreal: UC Berkeley police had two officers videotaping the proceedings, while tree-sit supporters photographed the ... Tree protesters mark one year Daily Review Online

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...

Admissions statistics illuminate trend  CA - UCLA modeled its version of holistic review after UC Berkeley’s, and the year after Berkeley implemented holistic admissions, academic achievement declined ... Increasing racial diversity is not enough The UCLA Daily Bruin

By Radio Zapatista Entrevista con Morning Star, del Intertribal Friendship House, sobre las protestas contra la Universidad de California, Berkeley, donde 13,000 cuerpos de ancestros indígenas se mantienen, sin consulta o diálogo con la comunidad indígena, en el museo Hearst. (3:45 min)

By pastrygirl The winning recipe will net its creator $5000 and will be featured on the menu at Scharffen Berger's Cafe Cacao in Berkeley, CA for month. So if you fancy having your recipe served at one of the most famed chocolate factories around, ...

By Anonymous Part 1 of 2 audio clips from a forum held at UC Berkeley on March 19 2007 in which people supportive of the proposed BP-funded Energy Biosciences Institute made presentations and responsed to selected questions. The forum was announced on in an email by Chancellor Birgeneau. The pdfs of the...

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...

CA to Conduct Unprecedented Review of Voting Systems with UC Berkeley  - Working with UC Berkeley, the state is putting together three teams composed of academics from the university and professionals from the private sector to ...

Alice Waters and Chez Panisse' by Thomas McNamee Los Angeles Times, CA - She went to UC Santa Barbara, then transferred to Berkeley in 1964 and graduated in 1967. Waters was active in the Free Speech Movement. ...

By George Cadman Stephen Dunifer spoke on 3-17-07 at the 12th annual Anarchist Bookfair in San Francisco. Stephen Dunifer is the founder of Free Radio Berkeley in Berkeley, California. Free Radio Berkeley, an unlicensed micropower pirate radio station, was involved in a protracted legal case with the F...

Green stuff Art in the Garden Karen LeGault teaches how to draw and paint flora and fauna while traveling or hiking. Registration is required. 1-4 p.m. Sat. $35. UC Botanical Garden, 200 Centennial Dr., Strawberry Canyon, Berkeley. (510) 643-2755....

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

 CA - 28 issue names Manga, an associate professor in earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, one of the "sexiest men alive.". ... Cal professor shows smart can be sexy Daily Review Online People magazine hot for Cal volcano expert Alameda Times-Star

 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