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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Former UC Berkeley students start biosoftware company
Amid a semester of campus closures and online learning, three former UC Berkeley students made the decision to leave school and start Latch Bio, a San Francisco-based company that aims to revolutionize software in biology.
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Berkeley Forum announces fall 2021 lineup of diverse speakers, panels
The Berkeley Forum announced its Fall 2021 lineup of 12 events featuring panels and speakers from a variety of different fields and disciplines.
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‘The Berkeley inside us’: UC Berkeley graduating senior honored with University Medal
Despite the frenzy of online classes and remote learning amid COVID-19, the UC Berkeley 2021 University Medal medalist and finalists were not stopped in their march to success.
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A letter to my future self
If you’re lucky enough to contribute to change in the world, never take no for an answer and never forget your roots or those who helped you along the way.
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Brainwashing myself
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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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UC Berkeley students petition for alternative grading models for semester
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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UC receives 20th CRISPR patent before end of 2019
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 chemist Polly Arnold appointed as chemical sciences director at Berkeley Lab
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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Patent board announces interference between UC, Broad Institute CRISPR patents
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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