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…
The financial future of the largest captive group of hyenas in the world, which UC Berkeley researchers have studied for over two decades, looks uncertain as federal funding runs out. The hyena colony faces an impending expiration of a grant from the National Science Foundation in 2013, and its grant Read More…
Over 800 UC Berkeley researchers have been invited to share how overworked they are in a nationwide survey of federally funded researchers that is sponsored by the Federal Demonstration Partnership. The survey — whose initial results are expected to be released by the end of this year — is seeking Read More…
The age-old Internet security advice for kids has always been to never release their phone numbers on the Web. But in an age in which Google and Facebook request phone numbers for increased security, recent studies by UC Berkeley and Stanford University found that Web users are still at risk Read More…