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Distinguished heavy-element chemist Polly Arnold has been appointed as director of the Chemical Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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Throughout his career, Vishaan Chakrabarti has acted as a longtime social impact architect and urban planner, improving public spaces in New York City.
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UC Berkeley will begin offering courses to Dubai Electricity and Water Authority employees as part of a $40 million educational partnership beginning June 1, according to a College of Engineering press release.
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On April 23, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued UC Berkeley its fourth patent for CRISPR Cas-9, a revolutionary gene-editing technology.
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Elwyn Berlekamp, a UC Berkeley professor emeritus in mathematics and electrical engineering and computer sciences, or EECS, died April 9 at his home in Piedmont, California from complications of pulmonary fibrosis. He was 78.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ultimately ruled that patents held for inventions by the Broad Institute, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are distinct from the UC’s patents. The institutions have engaged in a long battle over the patents, which have the potential to secure both prestige and billions of dollars in licensing agreements.
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Berck earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He returned to campus as an assistant professor in 1976, where he remained for the duration of his career. Berck never retired, continuing to advise students and conduct research even as his illness worsened, according to his wife Cyndi Berck.
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Three UC Berkeley affiliates — electrical engineering and computer science, or EECS, assistant professor Alessandro Chiesa, EECS graduate student Chelsea Finn and research scientist John Schulman, who earned a doctorate from the UC Berkeley EECS department — were recognized in the Massachusett Institute of Technology, or MIT, Technology Review’s 2018 list of “35 Innovators Under 35.”
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CRISPR-Cas9, the gene-editing technology co-invented by a UC Berkeley professor, is again in the courts, as the University of California fights the Broad Institute, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, over patent rights that could yield billions.
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Michael Cohen, a rising star in the computer science field and a research fellow at the UC Berkeley Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, died last week in Berkeley at the age of 25. Berkeley police said he died of natural causes, but the specific cause of death is still pending.
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