Federal government will increase recovery rates for campus research projects
UC Berkeley has reached a new multiyear 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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Campus professor wins prestigious finance award
Ulrike Malmendier/CourtesyUlrike Malmendier, pictured above won the 2013 Fischer Black prize for her research in economics. UC Berkeley professor Ulrike Malmendier was awarded the prestigious 2013...
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UC research should be free
Kira Walker/StaffIt 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...
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A history of genetically modified organisms at UC Berkeley
Christopher Yee/StaffUC Berkeley Professor of Agroecology Miguel Altieri speaks during teach-outs at the occupy the farm encampment in Albany on Saturday, April 28, 2012.Originally published in The...
View ArticleBrown is wrong on research
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...
View ArticleUC Berkeley to lose $49 million in research funding if sequester cuts take...
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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Life on earth started by … comets?
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...
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UC Berkeley researchers join Obama’s BRAIN map project
President Barack Obama officially announced an expansive new brain research initiative at a press conference Tuesday after weighing input from top U.S. scientists, including three from UC Berkeley. The...
View ArticleEducation democratization
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...
View ArticleLetter: July 15 – July 21
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...
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Electrostatic sight over the insect world
Danielle Shi/FileElectrostatic effects on nature are so ubiquitous that they commonly play tricks on us: restyling our hair like a porcupine’s, emitting “firefly” flashes while we put on clothes,...
View ArticleNew mobile app crunches researchers’ data
Renting time on supercomputers can be expensive and prevent some researchers from crunching the sometimes massive amounts of data generated by their projects. A new application developed by UC Berkeley...
View ArticleGill Tract project may feed many
Sixteen months after advocates for community urban farming took over the university’s Gill Tract agricultural experiment station on Earth Day, April 22, 2012, community members are back in the land and...
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When scholarship is like Pearl Harbor
Writing a thesis entails a quantity of research approaching the obscene. One must spend innumerable hours in the library and searching scholarly databases to find relevant sources and determine from...
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A laywoman’s view on gushing
I was relatively late to the sex game. It wasn’t until well after my first sexual romp that I had the desire or mental wherewithal to masturbate. This yearslong mental obstacle overcome, imagine my...
View ArticleErrors in experiments, incorrect conclusions plague social science research,...
Social science findings in fields from psychology to economics may be plagued by a set of harmful mistakes, according to a paper published by an interdisciplinary group of academics. The article,...
View ArticleStudy sheds light on divergence of Neanderthals and humans
Last week, a team of scientists published new findings indicating that the divergence between Neanderthals and modern humans occurred more recently than previously thought. Scientists from various...
View ArticleAn Omelas for animals in Berkeley
“The door is always locked; and nobody ever comes, except that sometimes — the child has no understanding of time or interval — sometimes the door rattles terribly and opens, and a person, or several...
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A Survey of Senior Theses
Nicole White/StaffA senior thesis can be a daunting prospect. 50 pages? That’s hefty! That’s a novella! That can’t be accomplished in a typical undergraduate one-night frantic Main Stacks extravaganza....
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The Beaker Blues
The Beaker Blues Simone Anne Lang/Staff Here’s a question: What’s a problem a theoretical neuroscientist, a biochemist and a zoologist can’t solve? The answer is how to combat barriers in their very...
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