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Cal launches groundbreaking disability research initiative
UC Berkeley --- viewed by many as the birthplace of the disability rights movement --- today announced plans for a sweeping new research initiative that will make the university a worldwide leader in disability studies. The campus will create two new faculty positions, including an endowed faculty chair funded by a gift from Colleen and Robert D. Haas, to galvanize and lead the multidisciplinary initiative. "It's meaningful that this is happening here at Berkeley," said Susan Schweik, a UC Berkeley English professor and co-chair of the initiative.
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Worrell wins Chancellor's Award for pioneering education efforts
 UC Berkeley professor Frank C. Worrell has won the 2011 Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence. Worrell is a key leader and co-founder of Cal Prep, the model secondary school for low-income, first-to-college students who come primarily from ethnic and racial groups underrepresented in higher education. Read more...
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Campus recognizes new
milestone for women deans
The number of women who are academic deans at UC Berkeley is the highest in campus history --- an achievement celebrated in April at the Women's Faculty Club. "We wanted to do something to celebrate the unbelievable strides of women on campus," said Ingrid Seyer-Ochi, an assistant professor of education. Read more...
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Mujahid investigates the link:
our neighborhoods and our health
 Mahasin Mujahid lights up when she talks about her students in the School of Public Health where she is leading efforts to understand health disparities, as part of the Haas Diversity Research Center. "They are not just students," says Mujahid, an assistant professor of epidemiology. "They are creative and critical thinkers who want to save the world! I wanted to be part of a place that produced students like that." Mujahid's research examines neighborhood attributes that give rise to diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and other factors linked to heart disease. Read more...
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