Through a new program designed to help Berkeley emulate a small-campus environment, hundreds of undergrads will get to work closely with grad-student mentors when Berkeley Connect launches early in 2014. "There's a zeitgeist out there about improving undergrad education," says director Maura Nolan.
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Typhoon Haiyan was not an anomaly, say researchers at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab, who also confirm that more such tropical "super storms" should be expected as the planet warms. And the grim fact is that many of these massive cyclones will slam into the Philippines.
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NASA's newest Mars-bound mission, MAVEN, blasted off promptly at 10:28 a.m. PST Nov. 18, to oohs and aahs from staff assembled at the Space Sciences Laboratory to watch their handiwork head to the Red Planet. More than half of the instruments aboard the spacecraft were built at UC Berkeley.
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