In the storerooms of a Venice, Italy, museum, a University of California, Berkeley, scholar and Italian experts are at work on a rare collection, but the objects aren't Renaissance paintings or the art of ancient glassblowers.
On Monday, Dean Paul Ludden announced that he has accepted an offer to become Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Southern Methodist University, beginning in the summer of 2007.
The perception that fruits and vegetables are too expensive helps explain why Fresno County farmworkers eat too few of these foods, according to
Christy Getz, a UC Berkeley specialist who focuses on na
What if genes could jump from organism to organism in passing, like a contagious disease?
Reductions of human-generated air pollution could create unexpected agricultural benefits in one of the world's poorest regions, according to new research by
Maximilian Auffhammer, assistant professor o
Matthew Stuckey, fourth year in Environmental Economics and Policy and Conservation Resource Studies, is researching how the butterfly Colias behrii colonized the Sierra Nevada.
Four Cal students living in a new "Green Apartment" demonstrate sustainable living.
Lagomarsino, third year in Plant Biology, is using nuclear and chloroplast genes to develop a phylogeny, or map of ancestral relationships between species of the genus Heliconia, a tropical plant.
Battrick has made himself an invaluable resource in his five years at ESPM.
Pollinators such as bees, birds and bats affect 35 percent of the world's crop production, increasing the output of 87 of the leading food crops worldwide, finds a new study published Oct.
The John A. Zivnuska Computer Laboratory, is nearing completion at CNR's forestry camp in the Plumas National Forest.
Fire researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are launching a new set of interactive online tools to help homeowners, community leaders and researchers assess the risk of wildfire damage to their homes and communities.
October 25, 2006
4:00-5:30pm
Andersen Auditorium at Haas Business School
This year's Homecoming Celebration, October 6-8, will feature faculty and alumni lectures on "new dimensions in human health," "the foodie landscape in the Bay Area," "40 years of change in forest ownership," and "California's water future."
The Daily Cal has a nice
article on CNR's newest major,
Society and Environment.
From the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle:
From a
letter to the Sacramento Bee by Prof. Michael Hanemann:
A new report delivered to state legislators and led by ARE Professor David Roland-Host says that returning California greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, as envisioned by pending global warming legislation, could significantly stimulate
The U.S. Forest Service has dedicated the first new experimental forest in California in 40 years. The Sagehen Forest is in the Lake Tahoe Basin, eight miles outside of Truckee.