To Julie Sinai, a "policy junkie" who recently ended a nine-year stint as Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates' chief of staff, the time was right for a return to education, which she believes "is under siege right now." She is in her second month as UC Berkeley's director of local government and community relations.
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Global warming has driven Yosemite's alpine chipmunks to higher ground, prompting a startling decline in the species' genetic diversity. The change occurred in just 90 years, highlighting the rapid threat that changing climate can pose to a species, and putting the alpine chipmunk on a trajectory toward extinction.
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Rhonda Righter, UC Berkeley professor of industrial engineering, is serving as a volunteer role model to 35 middle-school girls. "I'm always saying more girls should be going into (math and science) fields, so I decided to put my money where my mouth is," says Righter. At Oakland's American Indian Public Charter School, she described industrial engineering as "all about making things better."
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