Chronic stress is known to cause major health problems, but acute stress is thought to improve people's performance and health. A new study by UC Berkeley professor Daniela Kaufer shows why that is. Stress generates new nerve cells in the brain that, two weeks later, help people learn better.
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Justin Park dropped out of high school, but he never lost his love of literature and learning. After 20 years as a bartender, bike messenger and military man, Park returned to school at UC Berkeley, graduated and now has been selected as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, a top world honor.
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"Being geeky has become a lot cooler than it was years ago," says statistics professor and department chair Philip Stark. He should know. In the last four years, statistics has been the fastest-growing major at Berkeley, by far.
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