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• New library brings East Asia to UC Berkeley campus

  - 2008-03-14

  The new $46.4 million, four-story East Asian Library opens Monday at UC Berkeley, with 450,000 items in Chinese, Japanese and Korean under one roof for students, scholars and members of the public alike. It houses centuries-old Japanese maps, thousands of manuscripts and more than...

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• New library brings East Asia to UC

  - 2008-03-14

  The new $46.4 million, four-story East Asian Library opens at University of California, Berkeley, Monday, with 450,000 items in Chinese, Japanese and Korean under one roof for students, scholars and members of the public alike. It houses centuries-old Japanese maps, thousands of manuscripts and more than 4,000...

  Tags: Components, Construction, East, HARDWARE, University of California at Berkeley

• Cal stadium debate going to court today

  - 2008-03-07

  BERKELEY -- They wear bandannas on their faces and rarely speak from the tree perches where some have lived for more than a year. The public doesn't know their names because they use pseudonyms, such as Otter and Chewing Gum, to protect their identities from police and...

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• Adhesive mimics gecko toe hairs: Berkeley engineers create gravity-defying bonding agent.(Front Line)(Brief article)

  - 2008-03-01

  A new anti-sliding adhesive developed by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, may be the closest man-made material yet to mimic the remarkable gecko toe hairs that allow the tiny lizard to scamper along vertical surfaces and ceilings. The researchers say that such...

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• Final arguments made in suit over UC center

  - 2007-10-12

  HAYWARD -- The University of California, Berkeley, and its host city clashed in court Thursday as lawyers argued the merits of a proposed sports center opposed by city officials, neighbors and a determined band of tree sitters. After attorneys spent most of the day presenting their closing...

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• Trial begins on plans for Cal sports facility

  - 2007-09-19

  The court trial on the fate of UC Berkeley's contested plans for a new multi-million sports training facility kicked off in a Hayward courtroom today. But a written ruling on the three consolidated lawsuits facing Cal isn't expected to come down until at least later this month. The...

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• Effort to save UC Berkeley oak trees enjoys unlikely ally: a logger

  - 2006-11-30

  BERKELEY - Environmentalists scrambling to save a grove of live oak trees in front of Memorial Stadium hooked up with an unlikely ally this week -- a Northern California timber logger. Save the Oaks at the Stadium has for several weeks been calling on UC Berkeley to...

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• Cal unveils report on stadium plan

  - 2006-11-02

  The University of California, Berkeley, on Tuesday released the final environmental impact report on renovation plans for the campus' southeastern quadrant, including improvements and seismic retrofits at Memorial Stadium. The document, which can be viewed on the Internet and at some area libraries, lays out impacts and...

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• Cal plan expects to turn up sports noise

  - 2006-11-02

  The University of California, Berkeley, on Tuesday released the final environmental impact report on renovation plans for the campus southeastern quadrant, including improvements and seismic retrofits at Memorial Stadium. The document lays out impacts and mitigation measures of the multi-year project. The project will...

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• UC Berkeley invites comment on renovation

  - 2005-12-03

  The University of California, Berkeley, will hold a public scoping session Thursday on the environmental impact report associated with plans to renovate the campus' southeastern quadrant, including improvements to Memorial Stadium. The public can comment on the scope of the environmental review at the meeting from ...

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