UC Berkeley Public Affairs
Europe is banning bee-harmful pesticides; US should take the lead
By Claire Kremen, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and Co-director of the Berkeley Food Institute.
Dirks: "Our thoughts are with the people of the Philippines"
In response to the devastation in the Philippines caused by Typhoon Haiyan, UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks sent out this message on Tuesday, Nov. 12:
To Berkeley faculty, staff, students and alumni:
Excellence Honored with CNR Citations
Four faculty members and one external supporter were honored for their outstanding contributions to the College of Natural Resources in a ceremony on Friday, Nov. 1.
Fire detection satellite could prevent big blazes
As firefighters emerge from another record wildfire season in the Western United States, University of California, Berkeley, scientists say it’s time to give them a 21st century tool: a fire-spotting satellite.
Kremen Named CAS Fellow
Claire Kremen, professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, has been named a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences along with two Berkeley colleagues.
First University-Community Gill Tract Event Seeks Unity, Vision
This Sunday (October 13) marks a key milestone in the relationship between UC Berkeley, urban agriculture activists, and residents local to the plot of agricultural land near the Albany-Berkeley border known as the Gill Tract.
Got Calcium? Mineral is Key to Restoring Acid-Rain Damaged Forests
By Sarah Yang, UC Berkeley Public Affairs
Bedbugs Won't Take the Bait
UC scientists combat resurgence of bedbug in behavioral studies and monitor trials
By Pam Kan-Rice, UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Grant for Newborn Genetic Screening
Computational Biologist Steven Brenner will be part of an ambitious effort to assess whether large-scale gene sequencing aimed at detecting disorders and conditions can and should become a rou
What Can We Learn From the Rim Fire?
The Rim Fire raging near Yosemite National Park since August 17 has already destroyed nearly 200,000 acres and has become the 6th worst fire in California history.
The Libyan Spring's Environmentalists
By Ann Brody Guy, UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources
What do you do if you have three academic degrees in forestry-related topics and your home country is a desert? Plant trees, of course.
Berkeley front and center in "alternative" food prize nominations
In a opinion piece responding to the World Food Prize being awarded to a Monsanto executive, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman served up several alternative nominations from prominent voices, most of whom have UC Berkeley and CNR co
CNR fire experts on KQED Forum
After two years of sparse rains, California fire officials say this year's wildfire season has started a month earlier than usual and that the fires are stronger.
Gilless Reappointed CNR Dean
J. Keith Gilless has been reappointed as the Dean of the College of Natural Resources, effective July 1, 2013, for a five-year period.
UC researchers are engineering the tobacco plant to produce biofuels
By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times