The final proposal of six finalist sites for a second campus of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will be presented tonight. One of three potential sites that would be at least partially in Berkeley, tonight’s presentation will be for a site located in Emeryville and Berkeley on property already owned Read More…
Supporters of one of six finalist sites under consideration for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s second campus described the potential environmental, economic and community service benefits the site could bring at a crowded public meeting Thursday night. Berkeley Aquatic Park West is one of six finalist sites the lab is Read More…
Since the middle of last month, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been listening to the proposals of cities stretching from Richmond to Alameda in order to decide where the lab will erect a second campus. According to lab spokesperson Jon Weiner, the proposed second campus is an effort to Read More…
Both Alameda and Richmond will do just about anything to be chosen as the location for the second campus of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, including displaying billboards and lawn signs all over their cities to make for stronger advertising campaigns. The lab will be building a second campus to complement Read More…
A technique that makes it possible for irradiated materials to be tested at a nanoscale level was developed by researchers from UC Berkeley, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIIdPEzB8Hs&w=318&h=261] The study, published online in Nature Materials on June 26, looked at copper that Read More…
On June 7, the Daily Cal reported on the demonstrated trapping of long-lived antihydrogen atoms by the Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus collaboration, which includes members of the Fajans and Wurtele research groups in the UC Physics department. As a follow-up, the graduate students of these groups would like to offer Read More…
Former UC Berkeley professor William Berry, a passionate paleontologist with an ardor for teaching environmental sustainability, died May 20 from skin cancer complications. He was 79. Born and bred in Boston, Berry completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Harvard University in 1953 and 1955, respectively, and later earned his Read More…