Undergraduate

Enhancing the IB and MCB Undergraduate Experience at Cal

Submitted by mjalbe on Mon, 02/01/2016 - 16:11

The IB and MCB Departments have partnered up to support undergrads and their love for the biosciences.

More than 200 students attended this exciting networking event held on Jan 21st from 2-5pm in the Li Ka Shing Lobbies. Even more incredible? That this event was made BY students (both IB and MCB) FOR students. A whopping 26 clubs and organizations dedicated their time and efforts to the student community.

What Shapes Your Identity? Skin Color? A Surname? Or What’s in Your Fridge?

Submitted by rhkayen on Fri, 10/09/2015 - 13:30

Leslea J. Hlusko, Associate Professor of Integrative Biology was interviewed by CALIFORNIA Magazine about the question of: What is race?

"Questions of race and ethnicity are hard to answer, and even risky to ask. We asked them anyway, and here’s what people on the UC Berkeley campus had to say."

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Resurvey of 1802 Humboldt data featured in NPR Science Friday

Submitted by rhkayen on Fri, 10/09/2015 - 13:17

Research by postdoc Naia Morueta-Holme from the Ackerly lab showing strong upslope shifts in plant distributions 210 years after Alexander von Humboldt is featured on NPR Science Friday as part of a story on a newly published Humboldt biography.

UC Berkeley in "Elite Six"

Submitted by khansen on Fri, 03/20/2015 - 13:44

Times Higher Education, the United Kingdom’s leading educational news publication, has name UC Berkeley as one of the “elite six” world universities in its 2015 reputation rankings.
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Los Gatos: Climb Up an 850-Year-Old Redwood Tree

Submitted by rhkayen on Mon, 02/23/2015 - 11:38

Climbing trees is every kid's right of passage, but climbing a 200-foot coastal redwood tree is something else altogether. Yet that's exactly what master tree climbing instructor Tim Kovar and redwood biologist Cameron Williams with the Department of Integrative Biology at UC-Berkeley, will be doing in late March.

Profile of IB157

Submitted by khansen on Mon, 02/03/2014 - 05:45

The Daily Californian has an excellent profile of Integrative Biology 157, “California Ecosystems,” taught by Assistant Professor Paul Fine.
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Bowie Awarded 2013 Distinguished Teaching Award

Submitted by khansen on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 09:58

Assistant Professor Rauri Bowie has been selected for the 2013 Distinguished Teaching Award by the UC Berkeley Committee on Teaching.

Rare Octopus at a home in Alameda and in a UC Berkeley lab

Submitted by aaaboe on Fri, 02/22/2013 - 11:12

A breed of octopus that was not to have known to exist until 20 years ago is being bred and raised in a lab here on campus! According to Professor Roy Caldwell, they are the "most beautiful octopuses I have ever seen." Read more details on the SF Gate web page: http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Rare-octopus-breeding-in-Alameda-bedroom-4299276.php

Biology and Gender

Submitted by aaaboe on Mon, 10/29/2012 - 14:41

Is Biology Just Another Pink-Collar Profession?

By Marlene Zuk and Sheila O'Rourke

More women than men are earning degrees in biology, contradicting those people who used to claim that girls simply weren't interested in science, or that the mathematics required for a biology degree was, in the immortal words of Barbie, too "tough." ..... READ MORE

Math / Science Teachers win $175K Grants to Teach

Submitted by aaaboe on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 13:43

Berkeley’s CalTEACH program, which graduated its first credentialed teacher in 2011 and its first full cohort of students this year, places undergraduates in local classrooms to beef up math and science education and to serve as college-going role models. See what two recent Berkeley grads are doing now, teaching science and math. http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/05/two-young-mathscience-teachers-win-175000-grants-to-teach/ Students who major in IB can earn a Single Subject Teaching Credential, while pursuing their undergraduate degree, through CalTEACH.