Tag: Berkeley
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Science & Tech
The star chemist
Junior Fellow Mireille Kamariza is an award-winning scientist and entrepreneur, who was recognized for inventing a portable, low-cost diagnostic tool to detect tuberculosis.
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Arts & Culture
Seeing things Wiseman’s way
Harvard will welcome a trio of filmmaking greats for this year’s Norton Lectures, including legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman.
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Nation & World
UC Berkeley joins edX
EdX, the online learning initiative founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and launched in May, announced today the addition of the University of California, Berkeley, to its platform.
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Campus & Community
Political science, in his marrow
Using history as a lens to predict future political trends has been the focus of Daniel Ziblatt’s career and informs his work as an educator, researcher, and author.
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Health
New way to explore how life, disease work
Researchers have built a map that shows how thousands of proteins in a fruit fly cell communicate with each other. This is the largest and most detailed protein interaction map of a multicellular organism, demonstrating how approximately one-third of the proteins cooperate to keep life going.
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Health
More from spores: How they spread
Researchers discover how fungi developed an aerodynamic way to reduce drag on their spores so as to spread them as high and as far as possible.
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Science & Tech
Cracking flight’s mysteries
Harvard engineers have created a millionth-scale automobile differential to guide tiny aerial robots.
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Health
It’s all in the cortex
Research suggests that the brain’s lateral prefrontal cortex plays an important role in showing how well someone can rebound emotionally the day after an argument.
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Nation & World
Harvard joins in support for open-access publication
Five of the nation’s premier institutions of higher learning — Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley—announced their joint commitment to a compact for open-access publication.