13 May 2010
Professor Awarded Prestigious BREAD Grant
The National Science Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have awarded Professor Brian Staskawicz a BREAD Program grant. Staskawicz is the current chair of the department of plant and microbial biology at the College of Natural Resources. He is one of 15 grantees in the US being funded by the NSF-Gates partnership. He will receive a $1.3M grant to support his project on the bacterial blight disease of cassava.
BREAD is a new five-year program jointly funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The two entities are partnering to support innovative scientific research designed to address key constraints to smallholder agriculture in the developing world.
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 0:39
18 December 2000
Alumni gift of $1 million to benefit College environmental management fund
NEWS RELEASE, 12/18/00
Contact: Jose L. Rodriguez (510) 643 7123
BERKELEY -- Two Connecticut-based alumni of the University of California, Berkeley have established a $1-million fund to improve environmental management around the world. The gift by Carolyn and Dick Beahrs will help address a wide range of inter-related issues affecting development and the environment, including global warming, water management, population, and poverty. The Richard and Carolyn Beahrs International Environmental Leadership Program will encompass an intensive summer certificate course in sustainable environmental management. Leaders and policy makers from around the world will come to Berkeley each summer to attend courses that will combine theory and methods with case studies from California and the world.
The new program will strengthen UC Berkeley's already significant expertise in the College of Natural Resources and the Center for Sustainable Resource Development. "Carolyn and Dick Beahrs have a passion for environmental management and developing countries," said Richard Malkin, dean of the College of Natural Resources. "They understand that an institution like UC Berkeley can effectively bring together some of the best and most creative minds from around the world to solve real-world problems, using sound science. The unique insights of farmers and practitioners can provide extraordinary perspective when they are matched with Berkeley's world-class faculty."
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 3:59
06 May 2009
NST Professor Wins Searle Scholars Award
Assistant Professor Danica Chen of Nutritional Science and Toxicology has won a 2009 Searle Scholars Award, one of 15 young professors nationwide.
The Searle research grant provides $100,000 per year for three years to promising assistant professors early in their careers.
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 4:12
30 October 2008
Indonesian biodiversity grant, CNR toxicologist seeks to discover human health solutions in Indonesian biodiversity
University of California scientists have received a five-year, $4 million grant to study the biodiversity of fungi, bacteria, plants, insects and vertebrates on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, a southeast Asian island threatened by the loss of biodiversity in its tropical forests.
An international team of collaborators will conduct biodiversity surveys, screen microbes and plants for applications to human health and energy needs, recommend strategies to conserve endangered species, and develop and encourage local conservation. The project is organized into six associate programs -- five led by UC Davis scientists while one program, focusing on discovery of human health solutions is being led by Len Bjeldanes, professor of toxicology at CNR.
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Posted by Cyril at 2:01
10 January 2008
Mark Tanouye receives award to investigate brain diseases
Mark A. Tanouye, professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, recently received one of six 2008 Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Awards from the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience.
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Posted by Cyril at 9:50
06 December 2007
$5.2 million grant from Moore Foundation funds ambitious project to barcode an entire ecosystem
In the middle of the South Pacific, about 12 miles west of Tahiti, is a tropical island that soon will emerge as a model ecosystem, thanks to the efforts of a U.S.-French research team led by University of California, Berkeley, biologists.
Video: Cataloging an ecosystem |
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Posted by Cyril at 0:24
28 June 2007
Carolyn Merchant Awarded Berkeley Research Futures Grant
Professor Carolyn Merchant from the department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management has been awarded the spring 2007 Berkeley Research Futures Grant. The grant, funded by the office of the chancellor for research as well as CNR, will provide $50,000 in support of Merchant’s work, “Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Emerging Technologies.â€
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Posted by Stephanie Ludwig at 1:06
25 January 2007
Atkins Foundation pledges $10 million to Center for Weight and Health
The Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Foundation has pledged $10 million to the Center for Weight and Health at the University of California, Berkeley, to support nutrition research and obesity prevention programs.
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Posted by Cyril at 5:15
02 January 2007
Undergrad Subhajit Poddar researches genetics of green algae
Until he met the slimy green algae called Chlamydomonas, undergraduate Subhajit Poddar didn’t know he was interested in plant biology. “Once I began working with mutant strains of algae, I was totally hooked,†he says.
Poddar, fourth year in Plant and Microbial Biology, studies the green algae Chlamydomonas under the mentorship of Professor Krishna Niyogi. His research has focused on identifying and cloning genes responsible for two compounds involved in photosynthesis.
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Posted by Cyril at 0:33
23 January 2006
With $1.6 million grant, new HydroWatch Center seeks full view of Earth's water cycle
Inez Fung, co-director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment, and her research team have received $1.6 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation to establish the Keck HydroWatch Center at UC Berkeley.
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