A nurse refuses to help an ailing alcoholic who is upset to find a hospital detox unit closed. A hospital clerk brushes off a deceased woman's grieving family. These harsh, real-life scenarios helped inspire Eve Ekman, a UC Berkeley doctoral student in social welfare, to study empathy burnout in the workplace, which is likely to worsen because of the economy.
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UC Berkeley astronomer Chung-Pei Ma, graduate student Nicholas McConnell and colleagues have discovered the largest black holes to date -- two monsters with masses equivalent to 10 billion suns that are threatening to consume anything, even light, within a region five times the size of our solar system.
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UC Berkeley's School of Public Health has launched the campus's first online degree program in an effort to address the nation's shortage of public-health professionals. Students enrolled in the new program will be able to earn a master of public health degree by completing 85 percent of their coursework online and attending three on-campus sessions.
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