UC Berkeley Environmental News
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Nov 19 2009 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The University of California Board of Regents on Nov. 19 named Paul Alivisatos director of the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is managed by the university. |
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Nov 18 2009 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
FABS21 users can benchmark a facility across a set of years, as well as compare to a group of similar facilities. They can filter the peer facilities dataset based on climate zone, facility type, and cleanliness level. |
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Nov 17 2009 | PLAYgreen
Easy ways to go green and reduce your carbon footprint with you electronics. |
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Nov 17 2009 | Berkeley Engineering
Symposium urges cautious approach, citing concerns over ridership, cost and environmental benefits.CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’: State high-speed rail planners hope to receive $4.7 billion in federal stimulus funding and break ground as early as 2011 on a system that will move trains at speeds of 200+ mph. |
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Nov 16 2009 | College of Natural Resources
Tom Graff, 65, died yesterday, November 11, 2009, after a two-and-a-half year battle with cancer. Click on link for more information on Tom and his life’s work. |
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Nov 16 2009 | Haas School of Business
A two-day international symposium on “Green Building, The Economy, and Public Policy” will highlight the Haas School's leadership in the growing convergence of sustainability and energy efficiency with the real estate industry. |
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Nov 13 2009 | e! Science News
There is good news for the global effort to reduce the amount of lead in the environment and for the growing array of technologies that rely upon the piezoelectric effect. A lead-free alternative to the current crop of piezoelectric materials has been identified by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley. |
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Nov 12 2009 | UC Berkeley News
University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered the secret to the success of a jellyfish protein whose green glow has made it the darling of biologists and the subject of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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Nov 12 2009 | College of Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry Chris Chang has won the 2009 AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award. The award is presented to two talented academic researchers who have demonstrated distinct potential in synthetic, mechanistic, or bioorganic chemistry. Chang won the award along with Martin Burke of the University of Illinois. (also visit his webpage: http://chem.berkeley.edu/faculty/chang_c/index.php) |
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Nov 12 2009 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The collaboration is intended to help advance carbon capture and storage research in the U.S. and China, which together are responsible for 40 percent of the world’s emissions of carbon dioxide. |
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Nov 11 2009 | School of Public Health
The UC-Berkeley School of Public Health announces new PhD emphases in Population Health beginning in 2010. This Population Health focus builds on Berkeley’s historical strengths in social epidemiology, health policy, and demography, offering students interdisciplinary programs of study to reflect the growing integration of these fields within the profession. |
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Nov 10 2009 | The Berkeley Water Center
The Berkeley Water Center organized the 2009 International Water Resource Economics Consortium Nov. 6 and 7. This event was by invitation only but you can read some of the papers that were presented. |
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Nov 6 2009 | UC Berkeley News
Anthropologist Mari Lyn Salvador has been named director of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Salvador was chief executive officer of the San Diego Museum of Man from 2004 until 2009. There, she earned praise for the physical restoration of the Balboa Park historic landmark and ... Follow link to read full article. |
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Nov 5 2009 | Lawrence National Berkeley Laboratory
One of the most-cited examples of global climate change is retreating ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland. But the detail of how fast they are melting is a mystery that may be solved with a new generation of computer simulations. |
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Nov 5 2009 | UC Berkeley News Center
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have received a five-year, $10.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to evaluate several interventions to combat diarrheal disease in developing countries. An estimated 2.2 million children under the age of 5 die from diarrheal diseases each year, according to the World Health Organization. Most of these diseases are thought to be preventable with improvements in sanitation, water quality and hygiene.
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