CAL Prep, the charter school co-founded and co-run by UC Berkeley educators, gets kids ready for Cal — and Cal ready for those kids.
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The Berkeley-based Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center is coordinating a new multi-disciplinary, multi-year research program to develop new ground-motion models for the Central & Eastern United States, with support from a consortium of federal agencies.
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So much for the empty nest blues. A UC Berkeley study that tracked the relationships of dozens of women has found evidence that marriages improve once the kids have flown the coop.
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Students hunting for internship opportunities and organizations seeking bargain-rate new talent are finding each other online, at a hook-up site launched by three Berkeley undergraduates. With audio
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Broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables have long been known to have anti-cancer benefits, and UC Berkeley researchers have now found out why. The discovery of one target of a chemical found in broccoli will help to design better anti-cancer drugs and to target treatment to specific types of cancer, including late-stage breast and prostate cancers. With recipes
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Due to a heavy server load that frustrated some last-minute applicants, the Dec. 1 deadline for submitting applications and recommendation letters for several graduate programs has been extended.
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Children from well-off families have an inherent advantage over those from poor families, but new research shows an added plus. The brains of kids from low socioeconomic levels show decreased activity in the prefrontal cortex — which governs attention and deals with novel situations — compared to the brains of children from high socioeconomic levels.
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Bringing clean tech innovations into the marketplace faster is the purpose of a new partnership launched this fall between scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and students of the Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative, an interdisciplinary organization founded by MBA students at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
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While studying for their PhDs in public policy, lawyers Layda Negrete and Roberto Hernández made a film about one man's encounter with Mexico's deeply flawed criminal-justice system. Their documentary, "Presumed Guilty," debuted recently at the 21st International Documentary Film Festival, in Amsterdam, where audiences rated it among their 10 favorite entries; También en español. With video
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