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• UC Berkeley chancellor defends BP energy deal

  - 2007-03-10

  BERKELEY -- University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau is adamantly defending the university's part in a $500 million research deal with energy giant BP Amoco PLC. Speaking to more than 200 faculty members and students at a campus forum Thursday to discuss last month's announcement of...

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• European universities trying to woo Berkeley professors Governments

  - 2007-03-03

  BERKELEY -- The new "Europe of Knowledge" could include a big chunk of the University of California, Berkeley. Professors on the Berkeley campus have received a surprising number of job offers from European institutions in recent months, the latest volley in the battle to keep top faculty...

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• Abu Ghraib art exhibit talk of Cal campus Artists' work depicting

  - 2007-01-31

  BERKELEY -- Colombian painter Fernando Botero's three dozen works depicting Abu Ghraib prison abuses are prompting campus talks about art, and violence, torture, human rights and terrorism. The Botero exhibit, sponsored by University of California, Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies, opened Monday in Room 190 of...

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• A Brookings Briefing: Redistricting Reform After the Ohio and California Initiatives

  - 2005-11-10

  NEWS ADVISORY: WHEN: Tuesday, November 15, 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. WHERE: The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC On Tuesday, November 8, voters in California and Ohio rejected state constitutional amendments that would reform the process for redrawing congressional and legislative districts. Opponents of the...

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• Berkeley nuclear physicist dies at 88

  - 2003-11-21

  LAFAYETTE -- August Carl Helmholz, a nuclear physicist and professor emeritus of physics at UC Berkeley, died Oct. 29 at his home in Lafayette. He was 88. A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday in the Great Hall of the UC Berkeley Faculty Club. ...

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