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UC Berkeley on Friday announced a landmark fundraising campaign to raise $3 billion to secure for future generations its status as the nation's preeminent public teaching and research university. Nearly $1.3 billion of the goal has already been raised through gifts and pledges.
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Robert Orlando Briggs, director emeritus of UC Berkeley's storied Cal Band and soft-spoken mentor to generations of marching band members, died Wednesday at UC San Francisco Medical Center of complications from gall bladder surgery. He was 81.
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Geophysicist Raymond Jeanloz was honored with the 2008 Hans Bethe Award for studies showing that America's nuclear stockpile will be stable for decades, obviating the need to develop newer weapons. Jeanloz, who also led assessments of the nation's nuclear weapons policies, was "a responsible voice" within the Department of Energy, according to the Federation of American Scientists.
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It's taken this long to bring just five likely Khmer Rouge killers before a tribunal. Wouldn’t it be easier simply to 'bury the past' and move on? Sophal Ear isn’t sure.
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Karyn Houston keeps the campus’s note-taking service running smoothly as manager of ASUC Lecture Notes Online, a godsend to notation-challenged students in dozens of courses.
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From the propaganda posters of the Cultural Revolution to modern forms of self-expression, "Mahjong," the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive exhibit of contemporary Chinese art, covers a roiling swath of history.
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Paola S. Timiras, a neuroendocrinologist and professor emerita who studied how the body ages and showed by example how to age while remaining vigorous in mind and body, died Sept. 12 of heart problems at the age of 85.
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NASA has awarded a $485 million contract to the University of Colorado, Boulder, to work with UC Berkeley and NASA Goddard to build a Mars orbiter to study the planet's past climate. The mission, dubbed MAVEN, will carry charged particle and electromagnetic field detectors built at the Space Sciences Laboratory under the direction of physicist Robert Lin.
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How would the large-scale cultivation of biofuels affect food supply and food prices? What is their impact on soils, waterways, the air, and nearby food crops? Chris Somerville, director of the new Energy Biosciences Institute, discusses the web of scientific, technical, and social questions that EBI researchers have begun to probe in an attempt to "truly understand" the potential benefits and pitfalls of large-scale biofuel production. 
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