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UC Berkeley was awarded a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a Center for Genetically Encoded Materials.
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 11 million students are at risk of losing access to outdoor education if shelter-in-place policies remain until Dec. 31, according to a recent study published by the Lawrence Hall of Science.
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A team of international researchers uncovered data through geological studies suggesting that the previously held timeline for the end-Permian mass extinction is in need of reworking.
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A team of scientists from UC Berkeley, UC San Diego and the University of Washington won a five-year $1 million dollar grant last month from the National Science Foundation, or NSF, to develop CloudBank, a program that will simplify public cloud access for researchers and educators.
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The nine winners of the award from UC Berkeley study a wide variety of research topics that range from detecting radiation emitted after the Big Bang to examining the different ways robots can interact with humans.
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Several large organizations that fund UC Berkeley research closed as a result of the shutdown, including the National Science Foundation, or NSF, NASA, the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts, the Department of Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture.
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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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Prytanean Alumnae Inc. awarded campus assistant professor of astronomy Jessica Lu its 2018 Faculty Enrichment Award and a financial grant of $25,000 Wednesday.
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A study from UC Berkeley economists showed that environmental regulations were the primary driver of a 60 percent pollution decrease in the United States from 1990 to 2008, despite growth in industrial production.
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One of the largest fossilized egg and nest collections in North America is housed at UC Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and was recently used by researchers in a study to trace the evolution of egg shape.
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