School of Optometry announces new dean
John Flanagan, professor of optometry, ophthalmology and vision science, will begin his five-year term as the eighth dean of the UC Berkeley School of Optometry in June 2014. Read More…
UC Berkeley lecturer maps food production, distribution
Maps showing where meat is slaughtered in Maryland, where barley for brewing beer is grown and where taco trucks travel in Oakland, among others, will soon be combined into a crowd-sourced, crowd-funded atlas, thanks to a UC Berkeley lecturer. Darin Jensen, co-editor of “Food: An Atlas” and a cartographer and Read More…
Rich people are more likely to behave unethically, study finds
Wealthy individuals are more likely to engage in unethical behavior, a new study from UC Berkeley and University of Toronto researchers suggests. The study – which was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal – found that those in higher social classes are more likely Read More…
Activist past gives campus chancellor unique worldview
It was the summer of 1965 — well before UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau was a professor, a world-renowned physicist or an administrator at top-notch universities in both the United States and in Canada. In fact, Birgeneau was just a graduate student studying physics at Yale University, wanting to do Read More…