A group of doctoral and postdoctoral students is holding a career conference Friday aiming to introduce graduate students to private-sector jobs in light of diminishing availability of academic careers. Read More…
A new application developed by UC Berkeley researchers will harness mobile phones — thousands of mini-computers that often lie idle — to be used in tandem as the equivalent of a multimillion-dollar supercomputer. Read More…
With less than 48 hours until the sequester spending cuts are set to take effect, UC Berkeley administrators are estimating that the campus could lose about $49 million in federal funding for research. Read More…
Thanks to a multi-million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation announced on Feb. 21, UC Berkeley will participate in an educational program aimed at fostering innovation by connecting university research and entrepreneurship. Read More…
The robot can’t walk. It can’t talk or clean your living room, but it might one day save your life. A team of faculty and students at UC Berkeley are attempting to transform the way surgery is performed by inviting robots into the operating room and allowing surgeons to hand Read More…
Randi Engle, a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Education, died in her home Friday after a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Read More…
Sudden Oak Death has killed more trees this year than in the last two years, causing UC Berkeley researchers to be concerned that the epidemic is becoming more deadly. Read More…
Two UC Berkeley professors are developing a new advanced placement computer science course geared in part at increasing historically low female and minority enrollment in the field.
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Damon Lisch, a researcher in the College of Natural Resources, was granted $1.3 million out of $3.4 million to conduct research on epigenetics using corn. Read More…
A $10 million grant awarded to UC Berkeley March 29 by the National Science Foundation will help advance efforts to organize, extract and analyze massive amounts of data. The five payments of $2 million per year will be allocated to the campus’s Algorithms, Machines and People Lab to track and Read More…
