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• UC Berkeley lecturer and New York Editor dies at 82

  - 2008-07-01

  Clay Felker, a lecturer at the UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and pioneer in an era of new journalism in the 1960s, died Tuesday after a long battle with throat cancer. He was 82. "He was always trying to be ahead of the curve in terms of...

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• Teen pregnancy occurred in dinosaurs, study finds

  - 2008-01-15

  WASHINGTON -- Adolescent pregnancy isn't a modern invention, it occurred in dinosaurs millions of years ago. Medullary bone, a type of tissue present in modern birds when they are developing eggs, has been found in three dinosaur fossils, researchers report in Monday's online edition of Proceedings of the...

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• Berkeley professors treated as pop stars

  - 2006-05-01

  Miss class? Your iPod will save you. The University of California, Berkeley has inked a deal with Apple Computers that makes dozens of course lectures available on the popular iTunes Music Store. Students can download video and audio recordings of lectures from select courses...

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• Seats empty as students log on

  - 2006-04-30

  Miss class? Your iPod will save you. The University of California, Berkeley, has inked a deal with Apple Computers that makes dozens of course lectures available on the popular iTunes Music Store. Students can download video and audio recordings of lectures from select courses...

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• UC Berkeley to hire data security expert after theft

  - 2005-04-08

  BERKELEY -- UC Berkeley's chancellor has called for an outside auditor to examine the university's handling of personal computer records following the recent theft of a laptop containing personal information of nearly 100,000 graduate students and alumni. On March 11, a thief entered private graduate division offices...

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• UC Berkeley to hire data security expert

  - 2005-04-07

  BERKELEY -- UC Berkeley's chancellor has called for an outside auditor to examine the university's handling of personal computer records following the recent theft of a laptop containing personal information of nearly 100,000 graduate students and alumni. On March 11, a thief entered private graduate division offices...

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• UC Berkeley to hire data security expert

  - 2005-04-07

  BERKELEY -- UC Berkeleys chancellor has called for an outside auditor to examine the universitys handling of personal computer records following the recent theft of a laptop containing personal information of nearly 100,000 graduate students and alumni. On March 11, a thief stole an IBM laptop from...

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• Oregon State Univ. engineering programs merge, look to future

  - 2003-03-24

  With the recent merger of its Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and its Department of Computer Science, Oregon State University hopes to become one of the top 25 engineering schools in the nation. The two departments are now called the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, which is...

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• Varian, Inc. Brain Imaging System Starts Operation At UC Berkeley

  - 2000-11-21

  Business Editors/Medical Writers PALO ALTO, Calif.--BW HealthWire--Nov. 21, 2000 Varian, Inc. (Nasdaq:VARI) announced today that its 4-Tesla MRI imaging system for research on the human brain is now operating at the University of California, Berkeley. The Varian system is part of the university's Henry H. Wheeler, Jr. Brain...

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