The UC-Berkeley team, writing in the journal Science, say that increased longevity can be due to numerous factors, including better sanitation and improved healthcare.
In 1999, UC-Berkeley School of Information dean AnnaLee Saxenian discovered that Indian-born entrepreneurs had founded 7% of all Silicon Valley startups between 1980 and 1998.
Green, who trained as a nuclear engineer at UC-Berkeley, started out doing fractal math to model ecological risk across huge biological systems such as the rainforest.
The UC-Berkeley graduate is no stranger to politically volatile topics.
"At this point we can't make too many firm conclusions, but we see changes at millennial to multi-millennial timescales, where the roughness increases by a factor of five, " explained Ryan Bay, a physicist at UC-Berkeley.
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Jack Kerouac sat on the side with a jug of wine cracking jokes and rapping and being totally entertaining, and a mix of people from the bohemians to some of my professors from UC-Berkeley, the Chinese department, were all there together.
"As we approach the ultimate limits of Moore's Law, however, silicon will have to be replaced in order to miniaturize further, " said Jeffrey Bokor, deputy director for science at the Molecular Foundry at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Professor at UC-Berkeley.
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More to the point, according to Professor Bruce Ames, an eminent biochemist at UC-Berkeley, our foods contain 10, 000 times more natural, endogenous pesticides the result of plants evolving with their own natural defenses against fungi and predators than synthetic ones, but many of the latter are actually less harmful.
Then the 80-20 Initiative, whose members include former UC Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, will urge Asian Americans to donate money to and vote for the candidate it endorses.
Started by a UC Berkeley scientist in 2005, the Darfur Stoves Project has distributed over 20, 000 fuel-efficient Berkeley-Darfur Stoves.
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He is also serving as an Executive-in-Residence at the Haas Business School of UC Berkeley.
Ron Ashkenas is a senior partner in Schaffer Consulting, (Stamford, Connecticut), and an executive-in-residence at the Haas Business School at UC Berkeley.
Ron Ashkenas is an executive-in-residence at the Haas Business School of UC Berkeley and a senior partner of Schaffer Consulting in Stamford, Connecticut.
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Ron Ashkenas is a senior partner of Schaffer Consulting, a Stamford, Connecticut consulting firm and an executive-in-residence at the Haas Business School of UC Berkeley.
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Ron Ashkenas is a senior partner of Schaffer Consulting, a Stamford, Connecticut consulting firm and an executive-in-residence at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
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Two well-known cynics, David Pimentel of Cornell and Tad Patzek of UC, Berkeley, calculate that producing a gallon of corn ethanol consumes 29% more fossil fuel energy than the ethanol displaces.
Richard Lyons, dean of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, recently posited that to create a different kind of B-school graduate, the key first step is creating a different kind of B-school culture.
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Friedberg, 26, has an astrophysics degree from UC, Berkeley and left his job in business development at Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) last summer to start Weatherbill.
Building on an idea floated earlier this year by theoretical physics guru and Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek of MIT, a team led by UC Berkeley researcher Tongcang Li has created a schematic for a crystal with a fourth dimension -- movement in time.
On top of his wish list are companies like ibm and Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ) and American universities like Stanford (his alma mater), Carnegie Mellon and UC, Berkeley.
As elaborated by UC, Berkeley regent John Moores in an essay in Forbes (Mar. 29), diversity can be attained-and less-qualified students admitted-by introducing "fuzzy factors" into the admission equation.
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