Developed at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, Course Threads is a unique initiative to help students find connections among academic subjects. The approach offers a flexible, coherent way for students to explore intellectual themes across department boundaries.
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New Program Offers Roadmap Across Disciplines
Stronach Prize Winners Aim to Make a Big Difference
Four 2010 Berkeley graduates working on projects that heighten social consciousness and the public good were awarded this year's Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize. The award winners will use the prize money to make a difference in the lives of people around the world.
Tiny Foraminifera Shells Can Help Assess Recovery After Oil Spill
Millimeter-size marine organisms called foraminifera have been used to monitor pollutants in marshes and oceans, and could help to assess recovery in the Gulf of Mexico following the three-month long Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Genetically-Altered Yeast Could be Boon for Biofuels Industry
UC Berkeley, researchers have taken genes from grass-eating fungi and stuffed them into yeast, creating strains that produce alcohol from tough plant material – cellulose – that normal yeast can't digest.
Berkeley Researchers Find Underground Column of Molten Rock at Yellowstone
A plume of molten rock rising from deep beneath Yellowstone National Park may be fueling the region's volcanic activity, as well as tectonic plate oddities across the Pacific Northwest, according to research by Berkeley postdoctoral fellow Mathias Obreski and his colleagues.
Urban Farm a Classroom for Equitable Food Policy
Even in the Bay Area, where farmers’ markets and organic produce are ubiquitous, residents still have limited access to affordable, nutritious food. Conceived by a Berkeley geography student, the Urban Food Project tackles the problem of urban food supplies with an interdisciplinary lens.
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