Plant & Microbial Biology graduate students continue to do well in securing National Science Foundation Grant Awards.
PMB Graduate Students Score NSF Grant Awards
SF Presidio tree infected with sudden oak death
Scientists have discovered an oak tree in the Presidio with the tree-killing disease known as sudden oak death, only the second time the fast-spreading pathogen has been found in San Francisco.
Partnership to advance understanding of personal genomic variation
By Robert Sanders, Media Relations, UC Berkeley
Unearthing California: Berkeley researchers are uncovering how the land looked when the Spaniards stumbled upon it.
Read about how California’s Ohlone tribes worked with their living landscape.
Japan's Nuclear Disaster Raises Concerns About Contamination of the Global Food Chain
By: William Lajeunesse, FoxNews
Green chemistry conference highlights UC Berkeley's unique approach
By Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley Media Relations
The chemical industry is going “green” in a big way, marketing products as more sustainably produced, less toxic and recyclable.
Look to overweight, not overseas, for source of U.S. health problems, says surgeon general
U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin came to Berkeley’s Alumni House Thursday to deliver her “vision of a healthy and fit nation.”
Genetic technology boosts food production
By: Don, Curlee, Visalia Times-Delta
It looks like genetic technology will be responsible for the next big increase in food production, just in time to meet the world's exploding populations.
A Vision for a Healthy and Fit Nation
The College of Natural Resources and the School of Public Health cordially invite you to attend a lecture by Vice Admiral Regina M. Benjamin Surgeon General of the United States
Homoplasy is A good thread to pull to understand the evolutionary ball of yarn.
Similarity can arise in two species for a number of reasons; studying these can lead to a fuller and more profound understanding of the processes underlying genetic, developmental and evolutionary interrelatedness.
Tick population plummets in absence of lizard hosts
A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, found that areas where the lizard had been removed saw a subsequent drop in the population of the ticks that transmit Lyme disease.
Green Lit at SF Green Film Festival
Lauren Selman ensures eco-friendly production practices for film, tv, radio, and theater around the world.
Berkeley Green Chemistry Conference
Green Chemistry: Collaborative Approaches and New Solutions is the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry’s first national conference.
China Confronts Looming Water Shortages
The Chinese government plans to spend a whopping $600 billion (4 trillion renminbi) over the next 10 years on measures to ensure adequate water supplies for the country. But scientists who have glimpsed the details of the grand effort worry that it may end up harming wetlands and may be ineffective, as several ministries that handle water issues work poorly together.
Globe-trotting researchers find natural enemies of the olive fruit fly
UC scientists and cooperators traveled the world looking for natural enemies of the olive fruit fly – the most important pest of olive trees – and found several parasites of the fruit fly that may help control efforts.
Frances Moore Lappé
Join us at this special event to hear Lappé, author, speak about her quest for Living Democracy — a culture in which inclusion, fairness and mutual accountability are valued
Scientists Warn Against Stifling Effect of Widespread Patenting in Stem Cell Field
“The lack of transparency about who owns what intellectual property rights can hamper stem cell research and development,” Graff says, “and so can the resulting ambiguity of the distinction between what is private property and what is in the public domain.”
Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a land ethic for our time
See the first full-length, high-definition documentary film ever made about legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold and his environmental legacy! Today, Leopold’s ethic inspires projects nationwide that connect people and land.