The Berkeleyan: This week on campus
JULY 31, 2012
Berkeley at the 2012 Olympics logo The Olympics are on in London, and UC Berkeley is cheering on its 45 student-athletes, alumni, coaches and campus-community members - more participants than any other U.S. public university and second only to USC among public and private schools. Full coverage with videos and daily updates.  

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Richmond Field Station If a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the city of Richmond set out together at a recent workshop toward a glittering destination, the creation of a new joint campus on a stretch of university-owned land on the Richmond waterfront.

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Kristen Rasmussen Person of Interest: Kristen Rasmussen, a nutritional-science lecturer, has a master's degree in nutrition, a penchant for all things edible and a sustainable-food mission to change how we think about food, cooking and life.

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RESEARCH
Despite global decline, search pushes species total to 7,000.

Analysis projects energy savings of proposed  California transportation project.

Neuroscience advance holds prospect for helping human vision problems.

PEOPLE
Out-of-the-blue, no-strings-attached award for Berkeley professor.

New paper examines life and times of the late chancellor's tenure as UC president.

Early-career faculty get boost for commercially promising research.

Esteemed epidemiologist, 90, led pioneering HIV research, the S.F. Men's Health Study.
CAMPUS NEWS
Berkeley partners with Harvard, MIT in not-for-profit education consortium.

CINEMA CubeSat launch set for Thursday.

Video shows latest milestone in preparations for renovated field's reopening. 

Population remains surprisingly diverse. 

BLOG POSTS WORTH A LOOK
Haas lecturer remembers the moment when he had to choose.


Realities of urban life and graduate school  force a reluctant decision.

Psych Your Mind looks at new brides, happy and sad.

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