UC Berkeley loses bitter battle over CRISPR patents
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The U.S. Patent Office ruled Monday that patents for some CRISPR technologies do not belong to the university and other partner institutions.
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UC Berkeley professor emeritus of chemistry Andrew Streitwieser dies at 94
On Feb. 24, the campus College of Chemistry Dean Douglas Clark announced the passing of professor emeritus Andrew Streitwieser in a letter to the campus community.
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Research suggests quantitative abilities learned, not innate
Researchers at UC Berkeley have found in a study that the ability to understand exact numerical values is reliant on language.
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Recalling important UC Berkeley events throughout 2021
If you’re anything like me, you might have forgotten some things that have happened throughout the months. Here are some of the biggest stories to hit the UC Berkeley campus this year.
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Berkeley Forum hosts Turing Award winner Barbara Liskov
MIT professor and Turing Award recipient Barbara Liskov shared insights and details from her computer science career at a Berkeley Forum event Monday.
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UC Berkeley ranks No. 4 in US News global universities list
UC Berkeley was ranked the fourth-best global university by the U.S. News & World Report for 2022, defending its place among other top universities.
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BASC denies guest lecturer, director David Romps resigns in protest
David Romps alleged that BASC faculty rejected his request to invite speaker Dorian Abbot because of Abbot’s social and political beliefs.
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UC Berkeley ranked best public university in US, 4th overall
For the second year in a row, UC Berkeley was ranked the top public university in the country, and fourth-best overall, in the QS World Rankings 2021 list of best American universities.
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UC Berkeley researchers create robotic guide dog for visually impaired people
Researchers at UC Berkeley modified a quadrupedal robot from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology into a robot guide dog.
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UC Berkeley researchers develop artificial intelligence to remove shadows from photos
In order to push casual photography forward, Cecilia Zhang and researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Google and UC Berkeley have developed a way to minimize natural and facial shadows from portraits using artificial intelligence.
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