BERKELEY —UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau has joined UCLA Chancellor Gene Block and eight other top university leaders in signing an Association of American Universities’ call for action against gun violence.Here is the text of the statement, sent to the White House and Congress today (Thursday, Jan. 3): Statement on Gun ...

President Obama to confer National Medal of Science, the highest honor bestowed by U.S. government upon scientists, engineers, and inventors Professor Sol Golomb, pictured with students here last spring, continues to teach and research having just celebrated 50 years at USC. Golomb was named a National Medal of Science laureate by ...

SACRAMENTO—The California Department of Education (CDE) today issued this week's Education Roundup of education-related announcements of public interest. California Career Tech Student is Harvard Bound One of the state's high-achieving career technical education students has earned early admission to Harvard University. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson is congratulating Belinda Zeng ...

On New Year's Day, 39,000 Stanford fans will take their seats at the 99th Rose Bowl Game in Pasadena. In addition, alumni and other fans have organized viewing parties in 20 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., and London. With 39,000 tickets sold, the Cardinal rooting section at the Rose Bowl Game on ...

Undergrads get a rare chance to present their research alongside world experts at upcoming biology conference... BERKELEY —Twenty-six young UC Berkeley scientists, many in the Berkeley Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP), will make a rare trip to present their  research at an upcoming major international biology conference. The Society for Integrative and ...

Two cardiology investigators from the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have been awarded grants totaling more than $6 million from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state's stem cell agency. The young physician–scientists, Dr. Reza Ardehali and Dr. Ali Nsair, ...

BERKELEY —At a recent campus book-launch event, sociologist Michael Omi described his colleague john a. powell as “two persons rolled into one” — “john the theoretician, who draws on a range of disciplines to rethink notions of race, racial identity and racism,” and “john the grounded and practical policy analyst.” Both ...

North Korea successfully launched a long-range rocket Wednesday, with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) confirming Pyongyang had "deployed an object that appeared to achieve orbit." The defiant rocket launch has prompted worldwide consternation: Japan has called for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council; the Obama administration ...

After Steven A. Denning completed his final Navy assignment – seven months sailing the Mediterranean Sea aboard an amphibious assault ship, the USS Iwo Jima – he still had a few months free before starting the MBA program at Stanford. So Denning, who became chair of the Stanford University Board of ...

In a sweeping study of the lifting of court-ordered desegregation plans, researchers show the fading of the dream of black and white students attending school together. The lifting of court-ordered school integration efforts over the last 22 years has led to the gradual unraveling of a key legacy of the landmark Brown ...

With a new research center, Stanford scientists from across campus will join a new "information age of genomics." The goal is nothing short of improving human well-being. In an effort to harness vast amounts of genomic data that can benefit human well-being, Stanford's School of Humanities and Sciences and School of ...

Stanford scientists have developed a new technique for watching blood flow in living animals. It involves carbon nanotubes and lasers, and will allow researchers to better study arterial diseases and therapies. Stanford scientists have developed a fluorescence imaging technique that allows them to view the pulsing blood vessels of living animals ...

  Engineers at Stanford's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have developed autonomous underwater vehicles that can photograph regions of the ocean floor that were once too risky for these robotic explorers. Underwater robots just got smarter. Engineers at Stanford and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research ...

At the third meeting of fall quarter, the senate heard an update on the redesign of undergraduate education that the faculty approved last spring. Six months after the Faculty Senate approved sweeping changes in breadth requirements for undergraduates, Harry J. Elam Jr., vice provost for undergraduate education, presented a progress report ...

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors Tuesday voted to allocate $10 million to fund proposals made by Stanford and the City of Palo Alto to expand area bike and pedestrian trails. The decision ends a decade-long debate about how Stanford should satisfy an agreement contained in its 2000 General ...

BERKELEY — To Rosemary Gillespie, the Hawaiian Islands are a unique and ongoing series of evolutionary and ecological experiments. As each volcano rises above the waves, it is colonized by life from neighboring volcanoes and develops its own flora and fauna. A new $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) ...

Stanford students who will begin their studies in England next fall include a master's candidate who hopes to become a writer focused on social issues, and a senior who hopes to better understand attitudes toward mental illness and human vulnerability. Rachel Kolb At her Rhodes Scholarship interview last weekend, Rachel Kolb, ...

Spreadsheets are not typically equated with creativity. But acclaimed novelist Adam Johnson relies on rows and columns to keep him focused and on schedule. In addition to his bestselling novel The Orphan Master's Son, Johnson's numerous short stories and essays have appeared in Harper's Magazine,Esquire and The Paris Review, to name a few. His first ...