UC Berkeley professors share their favorite summer memories
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How have UC Berkeley professors spent their favorite summers? Read on to find out what campus faculty have done during their most memorable summers.
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Professors react to ‘Rate my Professor’ reviews: Alex Filippenko
Cal Astronomy Professor Alex Filippenko reacts to critical, harsh and strange reviews left by students on the “Rate my Professor” platform
UC Berkeley researchers find black holes do not constitute all dark matter
In an article published Monday, UC Berkeley researchers disproved existing notions that dark matter is mostly composed of black holes.
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Childhood reading in retrospect: Conversations with UC Berkeley professors
I became curious to know if others had experienced this phenomenon — if their careers and interests could similarly be traced to their favorite childhood book. More specifically, I wanted to know if this was the case for professors here at UC Berkeley.
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What was your professor’s most memorable 1st day of school?
My most memorable first day of school was my first day as a graduate teaching assistant. — John Kihlstrom, professor emeritus of psychology
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UC Berkeley professors talk on their favorite summers in college
What do illegal camping, bilingual sailing lessons and Robert Kennedy have in common? They each could be your path to a future university professorship — or, at least, they each were part of a UC Berkeley faculty member’s road to success.
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UC Berkeley researchers discover farthest star ever observed, 9 billion light years away
The most distant star ever observed — at a distance of about nine billion light years — was captured using the Hubble Space Telescope by a group of researchers, including members of the UC Berkeley department of astronomy.
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UC Berkeley’s ‘revolutionary’ findings over 150 years tackle world’s biggest challenges
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, more commonly known as Berkeley Lab, was founded in 1931 by campus physics professor Ernest O. Lawrence and is currently located in the hills east of campus.
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Amateur astronomer makes history with photo of 1st light of exploding star
Victor Buso, an amateur astronomer, skyrocketed to fame after Sept. 20, 2016, when he became the first person to photograph the initial stages of an exploding star.
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A dishwasher, a garbage man, a gas station attendant: UC Berkeley professors talk their first jobs
Before they were our illustrious gatekeepers of knowledge and information, UC Berkeley professors and lecturers were just like us: scraping by on hard-earned tips, scoring coveted research positions and all the while scrubbing the dishes of some stranger.
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