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Realizing what I had done in choosing to write a column was like pulling over to throw up in a Wendy’s for dignity’s sake — only to wake 17 hours later having signed a contract for nine more weeks of throwing up in a Wendy’s.
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Members of the campus community have started two petitions calling for alternative grading systems to be implemented to compensate for the changes caused by the COVID-19, colloquially known as the coronavirus, outbreak.
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office issued the UC system’s 20th CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology patent with the arrival of the new year, according to a press release by Berkeley News.
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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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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced an interference between multiple UC and multiple Broad Institute patents, a signal that the USPTO will resolve the seven-year ownership debate regarding CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing in eukaryotic cells.
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This change is intended to appeal to international students who look for jobs in the United States after graduation from UC Berkeley.
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After four years of litigation battles, the US Patent and Trademark Office, or USPTO, has finally approved a third CRISPR patent for the University of California.
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Speed, stamina and a quick wit. These are the skills it takes to succeed in the Berkeley Mystery Hunt, a campuswide puzzles challenge that ran biannually on the UC Berkeley campus from 2011-16.
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Estrin, a computer scientist, and Sly, a mathematician, were each recognized for their potential to shape the future in their respective fields and were granted $625,000 with no strings attached, according to the MacArthur Foundation’s website.
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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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