UC Day 2011 sent a determined group of alums, staff and students from Berkeley to Sacramento to make the case for the university's contributions to the state. Zach Gentry, MBA '05, and Juliann Martinez, '87, a 22-year staffer, made the trek knowing the budget stakes have seldom been higher.
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Berkeley chemists have engineered bacteria to churn out a gasoline-like biofuel at about 10 times the rate of competing microbes, a breakthrough that could soon provide an affordable and "green" transportation fuel. The advance is reported in this week's issue of the journal Nature Chemical Biology.
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Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, will speak to Berkeley students for the first time on Monday, March 7, via Skype. The event is part of a DeCal class on Burmese culture, society and politics. RSVPs are required to connect online with the talk.
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