For Priscilla Layne it all started with a childhood love for Indiana Jones and an affinity for foreign languages. Now a graduate student at Cal, the daughter of immigrants from the West Indies is having one of her papers about the German language and culture published in a new book.
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Graduate Student Pushes Boundaries with Book Publication
Berkeley Researchers Win NIH Innovator Awards
Three UC Berkeley faculty members, including two L&S faculty in molecular and cell biology, have been singled out as innovators by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and will receive special grants designed to fund "transformative research" that could lead to major advances in medical science.
Berkeley Continues to Have the Most Highly Ranked Graduate Programs
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The first detailed survey since 1995 of doctoral programs at the nation's research universities shows that the University of California, Berkeley, continues to have the largest number of highly ranked graduate programs in the country.
Economics Professor Wins MacArthur "Genius" Award
UC Berkeley's Emmanuel Saez was named a 2010 MacArthur Foundation Fellow in recognition of his path-breaking work on income inequality and in public economics and tax policy. He is E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics and director of the Center for Equitable Growth. Saez and Berkeley's Dawn Song of electrical engineering and computer sciences are among 23 recipients to receive the $500,000 award.
Brain Stimulation Can Change the Hand You Favor
Berkeley researchers applied transcranial magnetic stimulation to the brains of 33 right-handed volunteers and found that stimulating the left side spurred an increase in their use of the left hand.
Berkeley Mathematicians Win Prestigious Awards
Berkeley professors Alexandre Chorin and James A. Sethian will be honored with the 2011 Lagrange Prize, awarded every four years by the world's largest applied mathematics society, the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM).
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