Amphibian lovers and Berkeley have teamed up to create a social networking site, the Global Amphibian Blitz, where anyone can submit photographs of amphibians to help scientists track their worldwide decline and hopefully find a way to halt it.
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Lorraine Midanik, dean of the School of Social Welfare since 2007, will retire from her post in June after 27 years on the Berkeley faculty. As she packs up her office and bids adieu to her many students and colleagues at Haviland Hall, Midanik reflects on her career.
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A gamma-ray burst observed in 2009 happened 13.14 billion years ago, only 520 million years after the universe was born. If confirmed, this flash of light from the early universe could be the most distant object discovered to date, says Berkeley astronomy post-doc Antonino Cucchiara.
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