UC Berkeley is roaring back to top speed with the start of the 2011-12 school year. Thousands of new students are moving in. Summer vacations are over for faculty and staff. Hundreds of events are lined up, and classes start on Thursday. Where to begin? Incoming undergraduates can start with the Welcome Event Calendar and Top 10 list. Or, find all the news on the campus NewsCenter and events calendar.
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Also: BAM/PFA throws a free pizza-and-movie welcome party for new students.
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What Google is attempting for books, UC Berkeley plans to do for the world's vertebrate specimens: store them in "the cloud." The campus is leading an effort by four U.S. universities to put information on museums' collections of animals with backbones online for easy use by researchers and citizen-scientists alike.
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Born of financial crisis, UC Berkeley's Institute for the Study of Societal Issues has cultivated a more collaborative, community-based approach to social-science research. In the process, a rickety old campus building has been transformed into a place where scholars can do more with less.
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