University of California, Berkeley Press Release
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| 01/22/2020 - 00:00 |
Environmental groups call on California restaurants to drop lawsuit against Berkeley's gas phaseout Berkeley, Calif.-- Today, a group of 12 environmental and green building organizations sent a letter to the 29 restaurants who make up the California Restaurant Association (CRA) asking them to drop the lawsuit against the City of Berkeley’s ordinance that phases gas hookups out of new buildings. |
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| 01/21/2020 - 21:51 |
Stanford researchers study fungal diversity and its relationship to the future of forests Stanford researchers predict that climate change will reduce the diversity of symbiotic fungi that help trees grow. |
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| 01/21/2020 - 21:38 |
Antiviral treatments inspire Stanford researchers to develop a new kind of cancer drug An effort to thwart viral diseases like hepatitis or the common cold led to a new collaboration and a novel class of cancer drugs that appears effective in mice. |
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| 01/16/2020 - 02:51 |
Swinerton Names Eric Foster CEO Jeff Hoopes, Swinerton’s Chief Executive Officer since 2013, retired at the end of 2019 after 35 years with the company. This marks only the 11th CEO leadership change in the company’s 132-year history. |
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| 01/15/2020 - 21:58 |
Bacteria as Master Regulators of Mating, Morphogenesis, and Motility in the Closest Living Relatives of Animals Nicole King, Ph.D., investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; professor, department of molecular and cell biology, University of California, Berkeley. |
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| 01/14/2020 - 03:57 |
On equal terms: UC Berkeley celebrates 150 years since women were first admitted The women’s rights movement of the early 19th century set the stage for a cultural shift and a reexamination of what it meant to be a woman in America. But while many elite private universities across the country didn’t admit women as students until women’s suffrage was accepted and ratified in the early-to-mid-1900s, UC Berkeley refused to wait. |
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| 01/07/2020 - 13:31 |
Photoresist Pioneers Receive the 2020 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering Washington , D.C., United States, January 07, 2020 — The National Academy of Engineering announced today that the 2020 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering will be awarded to Jean Fréchet and C. Grant Willson “for the invention, development, and commercialization of chemically amplified materials for micro- and nanofabrication, enabling the extreme miniaturization of microelectronic devices.” The $500,000 biennial award is given to engineers whose accomplishments have significantly benefited society. |
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| 01/06/2020 - 23:40 |
GSE Solutions Elects New Board Member COLUMBIA, MD – December 20, 2019 – GSE Solutions (GSE, GSE Systems or the Company) (Nasdaq: GVP), a leader in delivering end-to-end training, engineering, compliance, simulation, and workforce solutions to the power industry, today announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously elected Kathryn O’Connor Gardner as a Class III Director and member of the Audit, Compensation, and Nominating & Governance Committees effective December 17, 2019. |
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| 01/05/2020 - 23:16 |
Innate Immune Sensing of Pathogen-Specific Activities Other Tri-Institutional Events Patrick Mitchell, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley. |
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| 01/05/2020 - 21:35 |
Mechanistic Insights into Biology: From Membrane Fusion to CRISPR-Cas Targeting Other Tri-Institutional Events Tina Liu, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley. |
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| 01/03/2020 - 14:41 |
Berkeley Talks: Artist Paul Chan on the Bathers Dilemma Subscribe to Berkeley Talks, a Berkeley News podcast that features lectures, conversations and interviews at UC Berkeley. |
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| 12/27/2019 - 12:04 |
VSP Ventures Acquires Stocktons Largest Optometric Practice, Brookside Optometric Group RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif., December 27, 2019 – VSP® Ventures announced today the acquisition of Brookside Optometric Group in Stockton, Calif. Founded in 1998 by the late Craig Hisaka, OD, Brookside Optometric Group was established after the five largest optometric practices in Stockton merged together. |
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| 12/22/2019 - 16:56 |
Chancellor to winter graduates: The world is now yours to shape But I know you will not retreat from those challenges. You’ll face them head-on — just as you’ve been doing here at Cal.” |
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| 12/21/2019 - 19:05 |
Festive winter commencement puts a focus on justice, public service Graduate Han Na Choi — “Hanna” to her friends — gives a speech at UC Berkeley’s winter commencement ceremony in Haas Pavilion on Saturday, Dec. |
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| 12/20/2019 - 17:14 |
GSE Systems Elects New Board Member Until recently, Gardner was a Senior Vice President and Corporate Credit Research Analyst within AllianceBernstein’s high-yield research group, focusing on the energy sector. She oversaw all energy-related investments for traditional high yield portfolios with roughly $35 billion in assets under management. |
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| 12/20/2019 - 13:15 |
Twin Astronomer Probes DNA of Twin Stars to Reveal Family History of the Milky Way Astronomer Keith Hawkins (left), an assistant professor at UT Austin, is pictured with twin brother Kevin Hawkins. |
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| 12/19/2019 - 04:40 |
Chancellor confronts challenges in campus space, diversity UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ took questions from students, staff and faculty at this week’s Campus Conversation. |
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| 12/18/2019 - 10:21 |
Xencor Appoints Allen Yang, M.D., Ph.D., as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer He will be responsible for leading clinical development strategy and overseeing clinical operations for Xencor’s portfolio of XmAb® antibody drug candidates, including bispecific antibodies and cytokines. Dr. Yang joins Xencor from Jazz Pharmaceuticals, where he served as senior vice president, head of clinical development and acting chief medical officer. |
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| 12/18/2019 - 07:39 |
Scientists find way to supercharge protein production Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) |
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| 12/17/2019 - 23:38 |
Berkeley SkyDeck spreads culture of entrepreneurship to state capitol Seven companies a year will graduate from Berkeley SkyDeck and begin work in Sacramento under the new partnership. |
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| 12/16/2019 - 13:12 |
CLARK ART INSTITUTE NAMES CAROLINE FOWLER AS DIRECTOR OF ITS RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC PROGRAM Fowler joined the Clark staff in 2018 as associate director of the Research and Academic Program. She was named interim director later that year and has led the program for the past year. |
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| 12/12/2019 - 20:52 |
BAMPFA and SFMOMA Partner for Agnes Varda Film Retrospective Janus Films’ National Touring Series Marks First Major Posthumous Retrospective for Acclaimed French Filmmaker Program Includes Limited Engagement of Varda’s Final Film Varda by Agnès |
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| 12/12/2019 - 20:45 |
UH Hilo Chancellor Irwin to provide keynote address at Fall Commencement University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Chancellor Bonnie D. Irwin delivers the keynote address at the 2019 University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Fall Commencement Saturday, December 21, 9 a.m., in Vulcan Gym. The public is reminded that doors open at 8:15 a.m. |
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| 12/12/2019 - 20:41 |
Restoring arm, hand function after spinal cord injury focus of clinical trial Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) |
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| 12/12/2019 - 04:29 |
Intel Research to Solve Real-World Challenges What’s New: This week at the annual Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Intel is contributing almost three dozen conference, workshop and spotlight papers covering deep equilibrium models, imitation learning, machine programming and more. |
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