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(Newser) - California's budget crisis has taken an $813 million toll on its famed UC system, Time reports. The University of California's 10 campuses are attempting to deal with the 20% budget cut by instituting mandatory furloughs for 80% of staff, drastically cutting or even freezing new hires, and increasing tuition by... More »

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California • higher education • UC Berkeley • University of California • college tuition • budget deficit • budget gap • hiring freeze • furlough

Bush Lawyers Face Calls for Dismissal

But disbarring Yoo
or impeaching Bybee
is an uphill battle

May 7, 09 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Justice Department has signaled it won't prosecute the Bush administration lawyers who approved interrogation tactics widely considered to be torture, but they may have trouble keeping their jobs. A forthcoming report from the DoJ will recommend possible disciplinary action by state bar associations for the Bush lawyers, sources tell... More »

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torture • Department of Justice • impeachment • UC Berkeley • John Yoo • harsh interrogation • Jay Bybee

Bankers Leave Street in Rear View; Head for Academia 

Execs take teaching jobs amid crisis

Apr 21, 09 1:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - With the financial tornado buffeting Wall Street, some of its leading figures are ditching their careers for work in academia, Time reports. Merrill Lynch’s former president is teaching at Yale; Citigroup’s former merger boss headed to Berkeley; a onetime Goldman Sachs exec is now at Harvard. “It’... More »

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Wall Street • Goldman Sachs • Merrill Lynch • UC Berkeley • college • university • academia • Harvard • Princeton • Yale • bankers • banks • financial crisis

(Newser) - Private colleges across the nation are boosting the number of students they're accepting and the length of their waiting lists in case applicants can't write the tuition check when the time comes, reports the Washington Post. Applications are at a record high 3 million, but universities fear students planning on... More »

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college admissions • UC Berkeley • college • UCLA • Johns Hopkins University • economy • college applications • fiscal crisis

Torture Lawyer Flees Berkeley Amid Protests 

Law prof takes 1-year gig at OC's Chapman U.

Feb 11, 09 11:48 AM CST
(Newser) - It can be hard to be a professor: publish or perish, sit on committees…dodge protesters? Just ask John Yoo, author of the memos that laid out and justified the harsh interrogation tactics used by the Bush administration. Yoo, a Berkeley law professor, has taken leave from his left-leaning professional... More »

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California • torture • UC Berkeley • Berkeley • Chapman University • waterboarding • John Yoo • Berkeley Law School • torture memo

 10 Biggest College Libraries 

Labyrinthine stacks good for more than reading

Jan 11, 09 7:09 AM CST
(Newser) - Whether your purpose is to study, flirt or nap, college libraries are "labyrinths" of opportunity. The editors of College on the Record list the biggest, and why they like them.
  1. Harvard (13,617,133 books): "Because size matters."
  2. Yale (9,932,080 books): "Because
... More »

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University of Illinois • University of Texas • UC Berkeley • reading • Harvard • Yale • library

APPRECIATION

Hoops Coach Newell 'Simply the Best There Ever Was'

Wooden, Knight just two to praise man who scored Olympic gold, NCAA, NIT titles

Nov 18, 08 3:05 PM CST
(Newser) - Pete Newell will be remembered as perhaps the “greatest basketball coach of all time,” Bruce Jenkins writes for the San Francisco Chronicle. The legendary UC-Berkeley coach died yesterday, at 93; he was the first man to win NIT and NCAA titles and Olympic gold.  “He built... More »

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California • NCAA • San Francisco • basketball • obituary • UC Berkeley • NIT • Pete Newell • Bobby Knight • John Wooden • University of San Francisco

 10 Most-Buzzed-About Schools 

Harvard beats out Columbia for most internet references

Sep 30, 08 3:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Institutions of higher learning care about their brand as much as any business, so the Global Language Monitor has ranked universities and colleges for the amount of buzz they command on the internet. The winners:
  1. Harvard University
  2. Columbia University
  3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  4. University of California, Berkeley
  5. Stanford
... More »

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Internet • Columbia University • Princeton University • Yale University • college rankings • Stanford University • University of Chicago • UC Berkeley • college • publicity • Cornell University • University of Michigan • Harvard • University of Wisconsin Madison

 UCSC Tree-Sitters 
 Hold Their Perches 

Protesters refuse to budge, despite truce with UC Berkeley

Sep 11, 08 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - UC Berkeley’s tree-sitters may have surrendered their perches earlier this week, but demonstrators at UC Santa Cruz are not ready to give up their redwood-saving fight. The activists, nearing the 1-year anniversary of their protest, suspect the university will cut down trees before classes begin in two weeks, but... More »

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UC Berkeley • college • UC Santa Cruz • protesters • tree-sitters • redwoods • environmentalists

 UC-Berkeley Can 
 Chop Sitters' Trees: Judge 

School within environmental, seismic rights in plan for sports facility; time yet for appeal

Jul 23, 08 4:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - After a year and a half of wrangling, a California judge gave UC Berkeley the green light yesterday to cut down dozens of trees in order to build an athletic training center next to its football stadium. Three protesters are still living in one tree at the site and are... More »

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UC Berkeley • protesters • tree-sitters • Memorial Stadium • Alameda County

 Ruling Doesn't Chop 
 Tree-Hugging Stalemate 

UC Berkeley dismantles treehouses; protesters cheered construction can't proceed

Jun 19, 08 4:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - UC Berkeley can't yet proceed with a $140 million athletic center, a judge ruled yesterday, even as the university continued to dismantle structures belonging to protesters trying to save a grove of trees that would be cut down during construction, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Earthquake safety is the major... More »

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trees • UC Berkeley • protesters • tree-sitters

Cheap Malaria Drug Holds Promise for Millions

It's based on 2000-year-old herbal remedy

Jun 4, 08 3:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The lives of millions of children  may be saved by a new technique for producing a malaria drug at a 10th of the cost of current treatments, making it accessible the world's most impoverished people, reports the Independent.  The technique involves inserting a dozen synthetic genes into yeast cells,... More »

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malaria • genetic modification • artemisinin • UC Berkeley • mosquito • World Health Organization • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation • genetic engineering • Chinese medicine • synthetic biology • bioreactor • Artemesia annua • wormwood • Royal Society • Jay Keasling

Berkeley Fights Donation Policy Without Protests

Instead of boycotting, gay students recruit substitute blood donors

Apr 8, 08 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Several San Francisco-area campuses have banned blood drives to protest federal policies preventing sexually active gay men from donating blood, but at UC-Berkeley, students are making a point without resorting to boycotts. Instead of withholding blood on grounds the 25-year-old FDA rule is discriminatory, Cal is encouraging gay students to... More »

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FDA • UC Berkeley • blood drives • San Jose State University • donated blood • blood donation guidelines • gays

Intel, Microsoft
Fund Multicore
Research

Future products call for chips with many more microprocessors

Mar 17, 08 12:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Intel and Microsoft will fund researchers at two universities working on new programming techniques for multicore chips, sources told the Wall Street Journal. The companies will reportedly provide $2 million annually for five years, to speed the development of chips that can contain dozens—or even hundreds—of microprocessors... More »

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Microsoft • Intel • computer programming • UC Berkeley • computer chip • microprocessors • computer science • multicore chips

Berkeley, Stanford Partner with Saudi University

American schools to help develop science and technology graduate school

Mar 5, 08 2:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Berkeley and Stanford University will help choose faculty and develop curricula for a new university in Saudi Arabia, reports the San Jose Mercury News. The graduate-level King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, funded by a $10 billion gift from the king, will focus on fields like petrochemicals and nano-technology... More »

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Saudi Arabia • King Abdullah • higher education • Stanford University • UC Berkeley • nanotechnology • mathematics

Best Undergrad Biz Schools

Wharton keeps the top spot for undergraduate business education

Mar 1, 08 6:10 PM CST
(Newser) - The financial world may be on its ear, but undergraduate business schools are booming as increasing numbers of quality high school grads drive up standards and B-school grads command more on the employment market. Here are the 10 best, as ranked by Business Week:
  1. Pennsylvania (Wharton): Can be too
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MIT • University of Texas • UC Berkeley • business school • Notre Dame • NYU • Emory University • University of Virginia • University of Michigan • Indiana University • Wharton School of Business • Ross School of Business • BYU

UC Berkeley Rumbles Over City Council's War Criticism

Pro- and anti-war groups plan protests

Feb 12, 08 4:42 PM CST
(Newser) - Berkeley is getting a little of its ‘60s vibe back, with pro- and anti-war groups gearing up for a night of demonstrations as the City Council decides whether to revoke a letter critical of the Marine Corps, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The council’s letter, written 2 weeks... More »

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US military • UC Berkeley • protests • political activism • Marine

Craigslist Gives $1.6M for New Media Chair

Donation to Berkeley
is largest ever for classified-ad giant

Jan 18, 08 8:44 PM CST
(Newser) - Internet mainstay Craigslist is giving $1.6 million to help the University of California-Berkeley set up a faculty chair devoted to new media, the San Jose Mercury News reports. The gift will help create a setting "where scholars and students can explore the powerful effect of new media and... More »

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California • UC Berkeley • Craigslist • university • donation • endowment • new media

College Gets Podcasted

Apple serves up free education with iTunes U

Nov 24, 07 2:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Want to attend Yale for free? Thanks to Apple, you sort of can. Many colleges, including Yale, Stanford and MIT, now offer free lecture downloads through iTunes U. You won’t get a diploma, but thousands of non-traditional learners don’t mind, the LA Times reports. “They thirst... More »

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Stanford • Yale University • MIT • iTunes • higher education • iPod • UC Berkeley • podcast • iTunes Store

Radio Thinner Than Hair Invented

Nanotube radio could have widespread applications

Nov 2, 07 5:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - A UC Berkeley team has invented the world's smallest radio, composed of a single carbon nanotube 10,000 times thinner than a human hair. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the device is the first fully functional radio to qualify as a piece of nanotechnology -- inventions no larger than... More »

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radio • UC Berkeley • nanotechnology

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