It’s cool to be kind: Berkeley lecturer’s award honors the good-hearted
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by Gretchen Kell
6h ago
The $1,000 Chris Kindness Award, given monthly by Alan Ross, a UC Berkeley lecturer and distinguished teaching fellow, celebrates random acts of kindness ..read more
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Rare beetle, rediscovered after 55 years, named in honor of Jerry Brown
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by Kara Manke
6h ago
While sampling for insects on the former governor’s ranch, a UC Berkeley researcher found a species of beetle that has not been observed by scientists since 1966 ..read more
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Berkeley Talks: Jitendra Malik on the sensorimotor road to artificial intelligence
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by Public Affairs
3d ago
For a robot to have the ability to navigate specific terrain, like stepping stones or stairs, it needs some kind of vision system ..read more
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Ali Bhatti on Ramadan and how his faith guided him through deep loss
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by Anne Brice
4d ago
For the Berkeley Ph.D. candidate in science and math education, the month of Ramadan is a time to remember what he’s thankful for ..read more
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Black, Latinx Californians face highest exposure to oil and gas wells
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by Kara Manke
4d ago
Living near active oil and gas wells can expose people to higher levels of pollution has been linked to a variety of health problems ..read more
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An update on campus finances and plans for budget challenges
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by Public Affairs
5d ago
Chancellor Carol Christ, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Benjamin Hermalin and Vice Chancellor for Finance and Chief Financial Officer Rosemarie Rae Balla sent the following message to the campus community on Wednesday: We are writing ..read more
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Surprisingly simple explanation for alien comet ‘Oumuamua’s weird orbit
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by Robert Sanders
5d ago
Six years ago, an interstellar comet whipped around the sun in an orbit that defied explanation. A Berkeley astrochemist now lays out a conclusive scenario for its unusual trajectory ..read more
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‘Be the Change’: Purvi Shah on the moments of beauty as a civil rights lawyer
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by Anne Brice
5d ago
"The work over the years will transform you. It will teach you. And that hope and that imagination, that sense of it’s possible, I think that’s such a powerful thing," Shah says in this Be the Change episode ..read more
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From tort law to cheating, what is ChatGPT’s future in higher education?
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by Jason Pohl
6d ago
Some have said machine-learning tools like ChatGPT will be the death knell to learning. Berkeley scholars say it’s more nuanced than that ..read more
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UC Berkeley professor Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers wins world-renowned Dan David Prize
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by Ivan Natividad
1w ago
This global recognition recognizes emerging scholars whose work “illuminates the past in bold and creative ways ..read more
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