Like many UC Berkeley students, Ryan Peden is a chronic late-night sleeper. His regular sleep schedule is from 3 or 4 a.m. to about 8 in the morning, which is 2 to 3 hours less than the widely recommended 7-to-8 hour sleep period. Read More…
Thirteen women and three organizations were honored for furthering the involvement of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, known collectively as STEM fields, by state Assemblymember Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, on Thursday. The honorees of the 15th Assembly District’s annual Women of the Year Award ceremony were all proponents Read More…
The creators of the site Politify have expanded their vision into a new tool called Outline, which would allow anyone to visualize how public policy changes affect them at the state level. Read More…
Amid decreasing enrollment and waning interest in humanities courses across the country, a national humanities commission delivered a report to lawmakers in Washington on Wednesday that makes a case for the study and research of the humanities and social sciences. The report, which included input from more than 50 academics, business Read More…
Although UC professors voiced support for the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision against human-gene patenting last Thursday, some expressed concern over the uncertainty that remains about other types of genes that could be held for profit. Read More…
UC Berkeley alumna, Kim Wong Keltner, will be holding an author talk in Berkeley this Saturday to discuss her recent memoir Tiger Babies Strike Back, an account of her personal struggles being raised with an authoritative and cold or “tiger-parenting” style. Read More…
Instead of cracking codes and shutting down networks, UC Berkeley students participating in a hackathon hosted by Bloomberg this week, put their computer programming skills to use, improving their humanitarian business ventures. Read More…
Recent findings from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory reveal one of the causes of why some breast cancer patients relapse years after treatment. Read More…
UC Berkeley professor John Kubiatowicz presented a new operating system called Tessellation at the Design Automation Conference in Texas on Wednesday. Read More…
The Energy Biosciences Institute, a research program that partners with UC Berkeley and is funded by energy company BP, announced on Wednesday the recent awarding of its first intellectual property patent since the institute’s formation in 2007. The patent, originally granted in April, is entitled “Methods and compositions for improving sugar Read More…
