Associate Professor Rachel Morello-Frosch has received the Damu Smith Environmental Achievement Award from the Environment Section of the American Public Health Association
Russell Jones receives the Berkeley Citation Award
Professor Jones was presented with the Berkeley Citation at a reception honoring PMB faculty
Jillian Banfield to receive Franklin Medal, L'Oreal award
Jillian Banfield, a University of California, Berkeley, biogeochemist and geomicrobiologist, will receive two prestigious awards — the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth and Environmental Science and the L-Oréal-UNESCO "For Women in Science" award — for her groundbreaking work on how microbes alter rocks and interact with the natural world.
CAL Student Wins Prestigious Technology Prize
Iain Clark has won the prestigious 2010 International Huber Technology Prize in Munich, Germany, for his research on removing contaminants from groundwater. Clark, an Environmental Engineering Ph.D.
Oil Spill Aftermath
Discover Cal offers perspectives from Berkeley experts about the effects on the environment and efforts to make oil companies more careful, accountable, and socially responsible.
California Winegrowers Get $2.3 Million
Federal Farm Bill funds research and marketing programs
By: Kerry Kirkham, Wines & Vines
By: Kerry Kirkham, Wines & Vines
Matteo Garbelotto as Scientific Advisor to the EFSA
Matteo Garbelotto has been appointed as a Scientific Advisor to the European Food Safety Authority
ESPM's graduate program ranked among the best by National Research Council Study
The National Research Council (NRC) has just released detailed rankings of doctoral programs at research universities.
PMB's graduate programs ranked among the best by National Research Council Study
The National Research Council (NRC) has just released detailed rankings of doctoral programs at research universities.
Professor Daniel Zilberman Wins $2.1 Million NSF Grant
Professor Daniel Zilberman of Plant & Microbial Biology has won a $2.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study how to develop new technologies that will increase crop yields, directly addressing the problem of hunger in our society.
ARE ranked among the best in the nation in the National Research Council Study
The National Research Council released its rankings of graduate education programs and for the first time agricultural and resource economics was a field of study ranked in the survey.
CNR's graduate programs ranked among the best in the nation by National Research Council study
The National Research Council (NRC) has just released detailed rankings of doctoral programs at research universities.
President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts
On September 17, 2010, President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint several individuals as Members of the President's Committee on the National Medal of Science of which CNR Professor Inez Fung has a designated place.
The Philomathia Symposium at Berkeley
Sponsored by the Philomathia Foundation and hosted by the University of California, Berkeley, the event, which is free upon registration, will be held at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in downtown Berkeley and will feature presentations on cutting-edge developments in four key energy-related areas: supply, demand, policy and environment.
CNR Student Co-manages Recycling Program
The Exchange is the virtual face of the campus's ReUSE program, which hosts material-exchange stations in academic buildings and residential halls that student-volunteers keep stocked with office supplies and other materials.
California's climate change policy is topic of conference
A conference sponsored by the University of California Giannini Foundation and UC Agricultural Issues Center will pick apart California’s climate change policies as expressed in a state law called AB 32 scheduled for Oct. 4 at the California Museum, 1020 O Street, in Sacramento.
Every year one million acres of farmland are lost to development
Film The Last Crop tells a personal tale of a family caught in the middle of a delicate interplay between urban and agricultural space in California’s Central Valley. The evening will consist of a 20 minute screening of the film followed by a panel discussion.
PMB Scientist receive corn biofuel grant
Two UC Berkeley scientists have been awarded a 3-year grant to study how to develop strains of corn that use the leaves and stems of the plant in biofuel production.