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• Obituaries

  - 2008-02-02

  IDA MAE BROWN Passed away on January 25, 2008. Service will be Monday, February 4, 2008 at 11:00am, Baker- Williams Mortuary, 980 8th Street, Oakland. Viewing will be Sunday, February 3, 2008 from 3 to 5 pm, Baker-Williams Mortuary. She is...

  Tags: California, CAREER, grandchildren, Oakland, sister, University of California at Berkeley

• Woman who helped husband win Nobel dies

  - 2006-09-08

  Helen L. Seaborg, whose behind-the-scenes help contributed to her late husband Nobel laureate Glenn T. Seaborg's accomplishments, died Aug. 29 from pneumonia. She was 90. Mrs. Seaborg was born March 2, 1917, in a Florence Crittenden home in Sioux City, Iowa, and was adopted by George and...

  Tags: California, CAREER, FINANCE, husband, Investment, University of California at Berkeley

• Viticultural giant Harold Olmo dies at 96

  - 2006-08-01

  Dr. Harold P. Olmo, who died June 30 at the age of 96, was a legend in California and world viticulture. Olmo, who retired in 1977, is credited by many with being of utmost importance in the emergence of modern viticulture in California. He received his BS degree in horticulture...

  Tags: California, CAREER, Dr., professor, University of California at Berkeley

• Asking personal questions.(oral history interviewing techniques)

  - 2002-06-22

  You might say I was grandmothered into the Regional Oral History Office at UC Berkeley as an interviewer-editor in 1970. In those days, there were few courses in oral history methods. The idea of a graduate oral history program was just a glimmer on the horizon. It...

  Tags: California, CAREER, Government, PRODUCTIVITY, SOFTWARE, technique, University of California at Berkeley

• Development Projects in Berkeley, Calif., Gain Support, Opposition.

  - 2002-02-05

  By Greg Cannon, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 5--BERKELEY, Calif.--Patrick Kennedy builds the centrally located, mixed-use, mixed-income developments close to mass transit that urban planners often prescribe as the solution to suburban sprawl and freeway gridlock. ...

  Tags: California, CAREER, developer, sprawl, University of California at Berkeley

• Berkeley, Calif., Professor to Design Wall of Steel for Skyscrapers.

  - 2001-10-19

  By Curtis L. Esquibel, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 19--BERKELEY, Calif.--UC Berkeley civil engineering professor Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl has built his career on finding ways to protect American skyscrapers during colossal tragedies. Before Sept. 11, car...

  Tags: California, CAREER, concrete, Government, University of California at Berkeley, World Trade Center

• Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif., Business Bulletin Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2000-08-20

  Aug. 20--MONDAY: Experience Unlimited of Pleasant Hill, a no-fee, nonprofit volunteer organization sponsored by California Employment Development Department to help professionals seeking new jobs holds an orientation meeting, 8:30 a.m. at 367 Civic Drive, Pleasant Hill. Free. Call 925-602-7700 to register. Single Toastmasters...

  Tags: breakfast, California, CAREER, SOFTWARE, University of California at Berkeley, workshop