NST associate professor Dan Nomura will head up the newly announced Novartis-Berkeley Center for Proteomics and Chemistry Technologies, which will target "undruggable illnesses" like cancers that have eluded treatments. In enlisting Nomura’s lab, Novartis gets reinforcements to help find elusive hotspots on the surfaces of proteins where drugs can latch on and disrupt their role in fueling disease. “Novartis is opening up their internal resources to us... enabling us to do things on a scale we couldn’t accomplish in an academic setting,” Nomura said in an email, adding students will get an up-close look at the industrial side of research.
President Trump wants protectionist measures against Chinese solar power. That’s going to hurt U.S. firms.
ESPM assistant professor Jonas Meckling authored this article for the Washington Post on a recent ruling by the US International Trade Commission that US solar manufacturers are being injured by solar product imports, which gives the federal government an oppportunity to increase duties on imported solar equipment, raising the costs of solar energy for US companies and households. Meckling notes that not only is this protectionist policy based on a basic economic error, it will have major consequences for energy policy and hamper the US's thriving solar industry.
ERG assistant professor Lara Kueppers is featured in this NewsDeeply interview on a recently published study on Sierra Nevada subalpine meadow encroachment. These meadows play an important role in regulating the flow of water from the Sierra snowpack. Kueppers discusses the study and the potential impacts of mountain meadow disappearance on biodiversity, water supply and flood prevention.
ESPM undergrad Grace Treffinger and assistant CE specialist Jennifer Sowerwine are highlighted in this Daily Californian article on the Student Organic Garden Association (SOGA) and a recent panel featuring Karen Ross, CA Secretary of Food and Agriculture.
ESPM associate CE specialist Max Moritz is featured in this Christian Science Monitor article on the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network (FAC Net), a cooperative model where fire management practitioners and communities can share best practices – empowering them to participate in developing their own resiliency to wildfire. As climate change leads to hotter, drier summers, and populations grow in fire-prone regions, fire professionals have increasingly turned to strategies beyond suppression, or putting fires out as quickly as possible. “If we’re going to see more events that are more extreme ... we’re going to have to learn to live in tune with the natural hazards of the environment where we are,” says Moritz.
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ESPM assistant professor Arthur Middleton is highlighted in this NPR review of an award-winning book on the monumental journeys taken by wild animals. "The Elk of Greater Yellowstone" chapter, based on Middleton's research, follows the travel path of a single elk - GPS-collared adult female #35342, a member of the Cody herd - through Yellowstone National Park.
ESPM assistant professor Jonas Meckling authored this article for the Conversation US on the US's solar industry growth and resulting price drops, and the potential impact of the Trump administration's proposed 2018 budget, which would slash support for alternative energy. The authors note that levying duties on imported solar equipment will make solar power more expensive for businesses and consumers, which will reduce its competitiveness against other sources of energy.
ESPM alum Peter Oboyski (Ph.D. '11) is featured in this California magazine article on the Essig Museum of Entomology, where he is the collections manager. Oboyski chats about the museum and discusses a dozen or so species from the Essig's vast collection of over 6 million specimens. One of the largest university collections in North America, the Essig’s regional emphasis is primarily on California, but it also expands to the Pacific Rim, including the islands of the central Pacific. Oboyski, a moth specialist who earned his Berkeley Ph.D. in 2011, has identified nine new species himself—seven from Hawaii, and two from Tahiti.
ESPM grad student Colin Carlson is featured in this New York Times article on a study recently published in Science Advances that suggests global climate change threatens parasites with extinction, which could have big consequences for ecosytems. The study was co-authored with ESPM grad student Eric Dougherty and alum Carrie Cizauskas. Stories on this topic have appeared in many sources around the world, including the Pacific Standard, Independent, Smithsonian, Xinhua, and Daily Californian.