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Thursday, October 8, 2020

UC Berkeley graduate diversity program awards $1.5M in grants

The College of Chemistry was recently awarded one of nine four-year grants from the UC Berkeley Graduate Diversity Pilot Program. The program, which was implemented in July, selected each department that was awarded a grant based on the projected effectiveness of the department’s proposal for itself and the campus community.

UC Berkeley’s Graduate Diversity Pilot Program awarded a total of $1.5 million in grants to nine university departments, according to an Oct. 1 announcement from the campus graduate division.
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Obituary

Thursday, August 20, 2020

‘Incredibly vibrant’: UC Berkeley linguist Geoffrey Nunberg dies at 75

Far-reaching NPR linguist and adjunct UC Berkeley professor Geoffrey Nunberg died Aug. 11 at the age of 75.
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Campus

Monday, April 6, 2020

COVID-19 may resurge if outbreak subsides by fall, UC Berkeley professor says

UC Berkeley public health professor Arthur Reingold said a resurgence of COVID-19 is nearly certain if the disease dissipates this summer in a livestream as part of a campus virtual conversation series that kicked off Friday.
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Campus, Women's Issue 2020

Thursday, April 2, 2020

Female faculty faces challenges despite increase in UC Berkeley gender diversity

Gender diversity in campus faculty has been increasing over the past 40 years, but many women still face challenges with recognition and access to opportunities.
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Research & Ideas

Thursday, October 10, 2019

UC Berkeley awarded $188,000 to grow projects at ‘intersection of public service and technology’

UC Berkeley received a $188,000 in grant money million grant on Monday from the Public Interest Technology University Network, or PIT-UN, a partnership between 21 different universities intended to grow the field of public interest technology.
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Campus

Monday, April 15, 2019

UC Berkeley community talks sustainability, equality, artificial intelligence at town hall

Campus community members gathered in the Sibley Auditorium on Monday to discuss signature initiatives surrounding sustainability, equality and artificial intelligence at a town hall sponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research.
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Administration

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Search committee solicits undergraduate input on new data science division leadership

The search committee whose majority is made up of professors and administrators, along with representatives from Witt/Kieffer, a firm the university chose to help with the search process, held the forum to answer three key questions.
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Commentary

Friday, September 14, 2018

Culture of subtlety: On the language of Facebook

And while these reactions have certainly served their purpose well, providing analytics for companies to know what’s going well and allowing a richer range of emotion to be displayed, they have come with subtle but loaded meanings.
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Cal Day 2018

Saturday, April 21, 2018

Photo Essay: Schools in session

UC Berkeley’s 14 schools and colleges offer a nearly endless supply of degrees — from undergraduate minors in education to doctorate programs in information management. What do they all have in common? The students, who act as a constant source of ingenuity and passion on campus.
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Features

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, manager of knowledge

Ten o’clock Monday morning at UC Berkeley. Outside, people are hustling in every direction, hundreds of people throughout the day: frazzled people, fast people, people peering at other people, people buried in their phones or in books or magazines, many people not looking at anything at all — and
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