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Sarah Shourd, a UC Berkeley alumna who was detained in an Iranian prison for over a year after being accused of spying with two other alumni, will be speaking on campus Sunday. Hosted by the Berkeley Lecture Series, Shourd will appear with the families of Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer,
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A tantalizing twist in the understanding of how emotions impact memory formation was revealed in a study published Tuesday by a team of UC Berkeley neuroscientists. In the study, published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, researchers were able to explain that the brain’s center for processing emotional information — called
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One of seven teams within the campus cost-cutting Operational Excellence initiative may soon be another step closer to seeing its proposals enacted. After proposals from the student service initiative team received guidance from the initiative’s program committee, the coordinating committee — composed of one staff member and one faculty member
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A private Berkeley company is making strides to push computers toward a hands-free era with the announcement of its new product — the world’s first foot-controlled interface device. Developed nearby at the offices of Keith McMillen Instruments on Fourth Street between Channing Way and Bancroft Way, this device allows the
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The National Nuclear Security Administration announced June 9 that it has chosen UC Berkeley to lead a multi-institution consortium that will work to further nuclear nonproliferation and safety in nuclear technology. The new National Science and Security Consortium will continue technical research being done in nuclear technology and will work
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Harold Heady, a professor emeritus of forestry in the UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources, known for his sense of humor and unconventional teaching style, died April 28 in La Grande, Ore. He was 95. Born on March 29, 1916, in Buhl, Idaho, Heady was orphaned at the age of
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With the help of UC Berkeley’s Geospatial Innovation Facility, the California Energy Commission has launched a website that grants public access to California’s climate change data, including past information and future projections. Cal-Adapt, which was launched Tuesday, is an interactive website that the facility began developing in August 2010 which
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A UC Berkeley graduate student’s ongoing research on the human auditory system has given more insight into how the system is wired — that it is made of a network of volume settings that can selectively silence and amplify the sounds people make and hear. Previously, scientists believed the auditory
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Patients from Pennsylvania to Hawaii who were previously unable to use their legs will be able to test a Berkeley-developed exoskeleton, which enables them to walk, as the product prepares to hit the market sometime early next year. The Exoskeleton Lower Extremity Gait System (eLEGS) was created by Berkeley Bionics,
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Twenty-eight members of a team from the UC Berkeley community are currently among about 2,350 other participants in the midst of a seven-day bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles to raise funds and awareness about HIV and AIDS. The 545-mile journey, which began last Sunday and will end
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