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A different look at why the humanities matters Many thanks to Martin Jay for his defense of the humanities (“Why the humanities,” July 8). Alongside a halfhearted suggestion, half-abandoned in the penultimate sentence, that a humanities major is good for the career, he suggests that the humanities are about critical
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The University of California has done the right thing in joining the nationwide open access movement by officially coming out April 26 in support of California state assembly bill AB 609. AB 609, which was introduced to the state assembly in February, aims to make results of government-funded research freely
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President Barack Obama officially announced an expansive new brain research initiative in a press conference Tuesday, after weighing input from top U.S. scientists including three from UC Berkeley.
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Here at Cal, we like to tackle the big questions. After all, we are one of the world’s premier research universities. Continuing with this tradition, UC Berkeley scientists are now attempting to answer one of the biggest questions in existence: how did life on earth begin? Told you it was
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With less than 48 hours until the sequester spending cuts are set to take effect, UC Berkeley administrators are estimating that the campus could lose about $49 million in federal funding for research.
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Apparently, Gov. Jerry Brown doesn’t understand the critical role of research at the University of California. In an article published last week in The Washington Post, Brown said professors should spend more time in the classroom and less time doing research, claiming that “the faculty’s primary role is teaching.” He
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For more than 30 years, UC Berkeley has been at the forefront of GMO research and development. Many faculty members have been divided between work to bring genetically modified products to the marketplace and attempts to challenge their dispersal in the environment.
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It is a felony to share knowledge created by the faculty, staff and students of the University of California with the public. Wait. What? In 2011, online rights activist Aaron Swartz was accused of using the MIT computer network to download millions of scholarly journal articles with the intent of
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UC Berkeley Professor Ulrike Malmendier was awarded the prestigious 2013 Fischer Black Prize for her research in economics at this year’s American Finance Association (AFA) conference on Jan. 7.
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UC Berkeley has reached a new multi-year Facilities and Administrative rate agreement with the federal government which will increase the amount of money the campus will receive for research projects.
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