Alfred Louis Kroeber, the founder of the study of anthropology in the American West, is a powerful symbol that continues to evoke exclusion and erasure for Native Americans.
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UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna wins 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Doudna, the first woman at Cal to win the Nobel, shares the prize with colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier for developing the genome editing breakthrough CRISPR-Cas9.
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UC Berkeley’s Reinhard Genzel awarded Nobel Prize in physics
Genzel, a professor emeritus of physics and astronomy, shares the prize with UCLA’s Andrea Ghez for “the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy.”
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UC Berkeley launches center for psychedelic science and education
With $1.25M in seed funding, the new center will conduct research using psychedelics to investigate cognition, perception and emotion and their biological bases in the human brain.
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UC Berkeley launches trial of saliva test for COVID-19
Scientists from the Innovative Genomics Institute, the same UC Berkeley group that created a COVID-19 testing lab in March, are now trialing a quicker way to obtain patient samples: through saliva.
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Cal carpenter removes letters spelling Boalt Hall after law school is denamed
UC Berkeley carpenter Joe Poppi removes lettering saying Boalt Hall from the Berkeley Law building on Jan. 30, 2020 after the school was denamed due to the racism of its namesake.
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UC Berkeley’s Campanile bell will toll April 4 for Martin Luther King Jr.
The 5.25-ton Great Bear Bell will toll 39 times on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination.
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Why was UC Berkeley’s Saru Jayaraman at the Golden Globes with Amy Poehler?
The actress said she wanted to draw attention to Jayaraman’s research on exploitation in the restaurant industry, particularly of women.