UC Berkeley faculty awarded funding to study US contraceptive demand
Anu Gómez
UC Berkeley associate professor Anu Gómez has been awarded a two-year grant to study the state of contraceptive access and demand in the United States.
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UC Berkeley hosts virtual toast to honor Bauer Wurster Hall reaffirmation
UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ and UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, or CED, Dean Vishaan Chakrabarti hosted a virtual toast Wednesday to celebrate the renaming of the CED’s Wurster Hall to Bauer Wurster Hall in honor of Catherine Bauer Wurster and William Wurster.
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‘We have a lot to contribute’: UC Berkeley student advocates talk accessibility, disability
UC Berkeley student advocates Katie Savin and Alena Morales recently reflected on their work and progress toward making campus accessible and welcoming for students with disabilities.
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‘Activist-scholar’: UC Berkeley’s 1st female graduate dean Mary Ann Mason dies at 76
Mary Ann Mason, UC Berkeley’s first female graduate dean, died July 27 at the age of 76.
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2 UC professors discuss approaches for coping with trauma amid COVID-19 pandemic
In a livestream Tuesday, two leading professors discussed practical approaches for coping with trauma and stress related to the coronavirus pandemic as a part of UC Berkeley’s virtual conversation series.
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Linda Burton named dean of UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare
Linda Burton, current James B. Duke Professor of Sociology at Duke University, was named the new dean of the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare on Monday.
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Faces of Berkeley: Jonah Markowitz has been attending the same class at UC Berkeley for 20 years
Every semester, Political Science 179, a guest speaker colloquium class, attracts new students across every major — but among the crowd, there is one veteran student who is all too familiar with the class.
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$3.4M grant to fund new Latino Center of Excellence
UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare received a $3.4 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration — an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services — to fund its new Latino Center of Excellence, a campus press release announced Friday.
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Campus researcher to study link between medical marijuana and opioid use
A UC Berkeley researcher and HelloMD — a digital healthcare platform specializing in medical cannabis — announced Tuesday that they had teamed up to study the connection between medical marijuana and opioid use.
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