2 men hit, killed by Amtrak train in West Berkeley
Two men were hit by an Amtrak train and killed on the Union Pacific Railroad tracks near Fourth Street and Bancroft Way on Thursday night.
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BART approves quality-of-life initiatives, 19th Street Oakland modernization project
The quality-of-life campaign includes initiatives to expand the elevator attendant program, maintain funding for the Pit Stop program and broaden the geographic reach of the Homeless Outreach Team program.
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BART plans to create 2nd transbay rail crossing for growing Bay Area community
BART spokesperson James Allison said the current BART trains would run out of capacity by 2040, driving the need for a second transbay rail crossing. “Plan Bay Area,” a study by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, estimated that the Bay Area is expected to grow by 2 million people over the next 25 years.
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Nobel laureates need to reflect diversity of STEM fields
This year, UC Berkeley welcomed Frances Arnold (chemistry), James Allison (physiology and medicine) and Paul Romer (economics) to its ranks of Nobel laureates. With the third-highest number of Nobel laureates in the world, UC Berkeley now has 107 individuals formerly or currently associated with the university who have received the
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‘Larger than yourself’: Former UC Berkeley professor Paul Romer wins Nobel Memorial Prize in economics
Former UC Berkeley professor Paul Romer won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday for his integration of technological innovations into macroeconomic analysis.
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Former UC Berkeley professor Paul Romer awarded Nobel Memorial Prize in economics
The 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded Monday to Paul Romer, a former UC Berkeley economics professor, who shares the prize with Yale University professor William Nordhaus.
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‘Honored and humbled’: Former UC Berkeley professor wins Nobel Prize
Amid the crowd at former UC Berkeley professor James Allison’s birthday party was a cancer survivor who owed her life to his newly developed treatment — the very same treatment that earned Allison a Nobel Prize in medicine Monday.
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Nobel Prize awarded to former UC Berkeley research director
Immunologist and former director of the UC Berkeley Cancer Research Laboratory James Allison was awarded the Nobel prize in medicine Monday.
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FEMA grants BART $6.8M to boost security
BART applied for the FEMA grant in June and competed with other transit systems nationwide. It was one of 19 different systems to receive grants, and BART received one of the most substantial grants, according to BART media relations manager James Allison.
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Family of Nia Wilson files wrongful death claim against BART
The claim alleges that these initiatives demonstrate BART’s acknowledgement of the link between fare evasion and violent crime and that BART could have taken measures to prevent suspect John Cowell from allegedly entering the platform.
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