For the 16th year in a row, UC Berkeley is No. 1 in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings of public national universities. Princeton ranked first among all American universities.
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Also: Berkeley ranks high for affordability
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Scientists at UC Berkeley have detected previously unknown channels of slow-moving seismic waves in Earth's upper mantle, a discovery that helps explain "hotspot volcanoes" that give birth to island chains such as Hawaii and Tahiti.
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A research team including UC Berkeley computational biologist Steven Brenner has received a $6 million federal grant to study whether it makes sense to perform genetic sequencing as part of the routine screening of all newborns. The researchers will also look at questions of ethics and public interest.
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