Tag Archives: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The Berkeley Wire: 1.27.10
When Alice Waters calls asking you to bake bread, you bake bread [Chewwise]
City will send letter to Iran urging release of UC grad students [Daily Cal]
Arrest made in Monday’s Shattuck Avenue bank robbery [CBS5]
Eeek: Berkeley Lab scientists make fuel using E-coli [SF Business Times]
[Photo: Rainy day at Lawrence Hall of Science by ereneta/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.]
The Berkeley Wire: 12.10.09
Wildfire hazards in the Berkeley hills? Don’t expect much help from FEMA [Oakland Tribune]
7-1 to send coat hangers. Agit prop from the city council [SFGate.com]
Chalk up another $16 million for LBL in stimulus funding [LBL]
Is there really less free speech today than in 1964? [Berkeley Blog]
[Photo of Tilden in the snow on Monday from EBRPD Public Affairs]
Alivisatos to lead Berkeley Lab
Paul Alivisatos was confirmed as director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory today by the University of California Regents. Alivisatos succeeds Steven Chu, who joined the Obama administration as Secretary of Energy in 2009. Alivisatos had been serving as interim director for the last 11 months.
Alivisatos runs LBL’s Helios solar research initiative, where he is leads research on artificial photosynthesis and photovoltaic technology through the creation of nano-inspired devices. Alivisatos has been a member of the faculty at UC … Continue reading »
The Berkeley Wire: 11.13.09
Berkeley Opera needs a new name — it’s moving to El Cerrito [Berkeley Opera]
Sad things sometimes happen in Berkeley: fifth slaying of the year [Mercury News]
The Shanghai Symphony sounds great, and they’ll be here on the 22nd [NY Times]
Get the lead out — of piezoelectrics. More wonders from Lawrence Berkeley Lab [LBL]
The Berkeley Wire: 10.29.09
When ants attack! UCB researchers find the chemicals that turn friendly ants aggressive [Science Daily]
The Internet as the “mothership of creativity”. Or have we blurred the distinction between mall and university? [Berkeley Blog]
Dance off that Halloween candy at Ashkenaz on Sunday [Soul Sanctuary Dance]
Ho hum. Another $7 million for research at LBL. No, it’s really a great thing that we have an administration that believes in science. I just need some snark in these short items [LBL Newscenter]
Photo of South Hall by Refractionless from Flickr
The Berkeley Wire: 10.28.09
How Amoeba Records got its name and what it says about them [Fritinancy]
Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman coming to Berkeley [Democracy Now]
Social networking: friend or foe? Someone went to the UC Berkeley conference so you don’t have to [Social Media Today]
LBL opens to apprentice electricians [LBL Newscenter]
[Photo of Halloween pumpkins on Russell Street: brothergrimm on Flickr]
