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Courtney Dressing, a UC Berkeley professor of astronomy, received a Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering for her research focused on the composition of small planets and the search for other habitable planets.
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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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Cal Astronomy Professor Alex Filippenko reacts to critical, harsh and strange reviews left by students on the “Rate my Professor” platform
We call on students, staff, faculty and community to join the efforts to protect Mauna Kea and to collectively demand that the University of California end its partnership with this project. We call on our community to heed the words of Mauna Kea leader Pua Case when she declares “this time we speak for the mountain and the mountain says no.”
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At UC Berkeley, students in the sciences look to their professors as mentors as they attempt to navigate the often overwhelming field of research. But what should students do when these same mentors fail to impart the importance of ethics in their work?
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Haynes Stephens studies gravitational microlensing events with professor Jessica Lu to glimpse invisible black holes in our galaxy.
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Move over Hubble — there’s a new telescope in town. Two UC Berkeley astronomy professors will lead research teams to test the capabilities of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, which will replace the Hubble telescope.
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The total solar eclipse will be the first to stretch across the United States in almost 100 years, and the country’s first total solar eclipse since 1991.
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After a six-month-long investigation, renowned UC Berkeley professor of astronomy Geoffrey Marcy has been formally implicated in a breach of campus sexual harassment policies.
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Editor’s note: This blog post has been retracted because of personal safety concerns. Sarah Harris is the editor in chief. Contact her at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter at @sharris_DC.
