Tag Archives: Berkeley

Peavlers commit $1.6 million to graduate education in the humanities

The gift is the largest ever made by a faculty member in the College of the Liberal Arts, according to Susan Welch, dean of the college. The couple are donating their family ranch in Colorado a......

Particle Beams Once Again Accelerated in Large Hadron Collider at CERN

Particle beams are once again zooming around the worlds most powerful particle acceleratorthe Large Hadron Colliderlocated at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. On Nov. 20 at 4pm ......

Atomic-level snapshot catches protein motor in action

If you want to understand how an enzyme works, and perhaps eventually develop therapeutic drug that will gum up the works and stop the motor from doing its job, it helps to know what the motor ......

Chinese Developer of Biodegradable Bone Screw Technology Wins Silicon Valley Entrepreneurial Award

Second place went to CaptchaAd of Technical University Munich in Germany for the development of an innovative Web site security technique that incorporates interactive video advertising. Third ......

CSC’s Dr. Sharon Hays Among Women Worth Watching in 2010

FALLS CHURCH, Va., CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced today that Dr. Sharon Hays, vice president of the Office of Science and Engineering for its North American Public Sector line of business, was liste......

New nano color sorters from Molecular Foundry

Currently, optical fibers employ light to transport data with very high bandwidth, but the technique hits a roadblock as light is squeezed into smaller and smaller photonic circuits. This road......

Michigan and MIT displace Harvard atop Internet Media Buzz Ranking

The GLM rankings were also the first to include specialty schools, such as Art, Business, Music and Engineering schools, as well as online universities. In the University category, there appea......

Rapid supernova could be new class of exploding star

An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf ont......