Comments(0) State Auditor Crit Luallen says Kentucky should quit giving merit based scholarships. Luallen says Kentucky simply can’t afford to keep giving cash to students who can afford to pay for college. Here’s the story from the AP: …
Comments(0) An important new paper by Chancellor Birgeneau outlines his “personal vision” of what the Berkeley campus must accomplish in the next several years to sustain its preeminence and continue to fulfill its public mission for California. The chancellor is inviting campus comments on the document.
Comments(0) The University of California Board of Regents on Thursday approved a 2009-10 budget proposal that does not increase student fees, but warned that fee hikes and limits on freshman enrollment would be necessary if the state does not provide sufficient funding.
Comments(0) As state funds shrivel, faculty reflect on how to avoid the potential pitfalls of the campus’s growing dependence on private research dollars.
Comments(0) Film at 11? That’s so Old School — try Flash at dawn, streaming video at noon, and enthusiastic local coverage around the clock. Berkeley’s first-year journalism students aim to succeed where newspapers have failed.
Comments(0) Detainees released from U.S. detention in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and Afghanistan live shattered lives as a result of U.S. policies in the war on terror, according to a new report by human rights experts at UC Berkeley.
Comments(0) More than a century ago, the development of the earliest motion picture technology made what had been previously thought “magical” a reality: capturing and recreating the movement and dynamism of the world around us. A breakthrough technology based on new concepts has now accomplished a similar feat, but on an atomic scaleby allowing, for the first time, the real-time, real-space visualization of fleeting changes in the structure and shape of matter barely a billionth of a meter in size. Such “movies” of atomic changes in materials of gold and graphite, obtained using the technique, are featured in a paper appearing in the November 21 issue of the journal Science. A patent on the conceptual framework of this approach was granted to Caltech in 2006. The new technique, dubbed four-dimensional (4D) electron microscopy, was developed in the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology, directed by Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail.
Comments(0) Two prominent researchers from Caltech have been named among the country’s 24 top leaders by U.S. News Media Group in association with the Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at Harvard Kennedy School. The 2008 edition of America’s Best Leadersavailable online at http://www.usnews.com/leaders and on newsstands Monday, November 24includes honors for Caltech’s David Baltimore and Fiona Harrison. According to U.S. News, the Best Leaders issue features “some of the country’s most visionary individuals,” highlighting those professionals “who continue to offer optimism and hope through their work.”
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For Georgia Tech fans, finding licensed gear can sometimes be compared to digging for buried treasure.
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