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A team of UC Berkeley researchers was chosen as one of nine teams to analyze untouched moon samples collected during the last Apollo missions nearly 50 years ago, NASA announced in a press release Monday.

William Satariano, director of undergraduate health programs at the School of Public Health and campus professor of epidemiology and community health sciences, died May 28 at the John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek after a long battle with lymphoma. Satariano was 70.

Celebrated local children's author Joyce Carol Thomas — a poet, playwright and winner of the National Book Award — died Aug. 13 at Stanford University. She was 78 years old.

If you haven’t been simultaneously bombarded with Vietnamese and Cantonese while eating in a Thai restaurant on University Avenue, you might wonder where the first half of your fall semester went.

Emil Plamenov Stefanov, a UC Berkeley graduate student pursuing a doctorate in computer science, died in his home on March 27. He was 26 years old.