From The New York Times Classifieds Marketplace
ESPM Faculty and Students Receive Notable Campus Awards
ESPM faculty and students were included in major campus honors this spring in addition to recently announced <a data-cke-saved-href="http://nature.b
Brian Wright Name AARES Distinguished Fellow
In February 2012, Brian Wright, a professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics and the department's chair, was named a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian A
Western Bluebirds Provide Pest Control
By Joe Eaton and Ron Sullivan
The Bluebird of Happiness has a new gig. Now it's the Bluebird of Ecosystem Services.
Study: Eat More Often, Weigh Less
Reuters
Jan 13 - Girls who ate frequent meals and snacks put on less weight and gained less on their waistlines over a decade than those who only ate a couple of times a day, according to a U.S. study.
Four CNR Faculty Elected to AAAS
Eleven faculty members at the University of California, Berkeley, have been named 2011 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Scien
Big data can lead to big breakthroughs in research
By James Temple, San Francisco Chronicle
UC Berkeley Professor Dennis Baldocchi has taken on the not-so-modest task of monitoring "the breathing of the biosphere."
UC Berkeley Launches New Sustainable Development Master’s Program
Berkeley is now accepting applications for the inaugural cohort of its new Master’s of Development Practice, a new multidisciplinary program that integrates theory with hands-on experiential learning in the health, natural, social and management sciences as they pertain to sustainable development practice and is part of a global network supported by the MacArthur Foundation.
Taking bushmeat off the menu could increase child anemia, study finds
By Sarah Yang, UC Berkeley Media Relations
Study: Without Action, SF Bay Tidal Marshes Will Disappear
An alarming 93 percent of San Francisco Bay’s tidal marsh could be lost in the next 50 to 100 years with 5.4 feet (1.65 meters) of sea-level rise and low sediment availability, according to a new study led by PRBO Conservation Science (PRBO).