17 May 2013
ESPM Team Wins First Place at Big Ideas@Berkeley, Improving Student Life Category
Team members Karen Adrade (right) and Zack Fischmann (next to Karen) making their pitch for the Science Shop.
Big Ideas@Berkeley is an annual innovation contest which aims to provide support, funds, and encouragement to interdisciplinary teams of students on campus.
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15 May 2013
CRS Grad Wins Stronach Research Prize
Nathan Bickart shows a group of graduate students how to identify and uproot invasive grass.
Conservation and Resource Studies major Nathan Bickart is one of seven graduating seniors selected as recipients of the 2013 Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize, it was announced this week.
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Posted by Ann Guy at 6:46
29 April 2013
UC researchers are engineering the tobacco plant to produce biofuels
By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times
Tobacco plants genetically modified to produce biofuels. PHOTO: Anastasios Melis, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
Once celebrated as an economic mainstay, the tobacco industry has been hard hit by health concerns, bans, lawsuits and the social stigma of cigarette smoking.
Now, UC researchers are testing the plant’s potential to be genetically modified in order to produce socially acceptable bio-fuels to power airplanes, cars and trucks. Preliminary results are encouraging, but more research is required before tobacco can be commercially farmed as an energy crop to meet the demand for alternatives to fossil fuels.
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Posted by Ann Guy at 5:11
23 April 2013
Do Western Audits Protect Chinese Workers?
By Sarah Yang, UC Berkeley Media Relations
Labor conditions at manufacturing firms in China have recently come under increased scrutiny – and audits.
Auditing of worker conditions at manufacturing firms in China provides little help for Chinese laborers, according to a new paper by economists Guojun He and Jeffrey Perloff at the University of California, Berkeley.
Labor conditions at manufacturing firms in China have recently come under increased scrutiny – and audits.
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Posted by Ann Guy at 3:01
23 April 2013
A Window Into the Pre-Vet Life
The website DugDug launched its Future of Veterinary Care series with an interview with Amanda Wong, a junior in the Molecular Environmental Biology major. Wong is vice president, webmaster, and historian at the Cal Pre-Vet Club, and has experience with small and zoo animals.
The series will feature interviews with students across the nation’s pre-veterinary and veterinary programs to learn more about their experiences and paths towards becoming certified veterinarians.
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