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Summer at the Berkeleyan
We're slipping into summer mode here at the Berkeleyan - which means newsletters about once a month, or whenever news dictates. Today, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau reflects on his tenure, and next week we will bring you a video welcome from Nicholas Dirks.
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As he prepares to hand over the reins to his successor as chancellor, Robert Birgeneau reflects on his nearly nine years in California Hall, and on his future as a member of the UC Berkeley faculty. And he explains why he's "deeply worried about public higher education."
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Responding to a challenge by California Gov. Jerry Brown, UC Berkeley biologist Tony Barnosky led 15 other scientists in preparing a consensus statement about the environmental problems endangering Earth and what policymakers need to do to avoid the fast-approaching tipping point. They gathered more than 500 signatures before presenting it to Brown.
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Like bugs? Interested in helping scientists understand our changing environment? UC Berkeley's Essig Museum of Entomology is opening up its collections to citizen scientists through a project called Calbug, which crowdsources the digitization of a million handwritten field notes that accompany insect specimens, many collected more than a century ago.
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