A team of scientists led by researchers from UC Berkeley and the Joint Genome Institute is publishing this week the first genome sequence of an amphibian — the African clawed frog Xenopus tropicalis — filling in a major gap among the vertebrates sequenced to date.
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Scientists Report First Genome Sequence of Frog
L&S Dean Among Faculty Members Elected to the AAAS
Nine UC Berkeley faculty members, all of them in the College of Letters and Sciences, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Dean Carla Hesse of the Social Sciences Division is among the new honorees.
Linguistics Professor Among Winners of Distinguished Teacher Awards
"One principle that guides me in teaching… is that everyone in the room must learn something from every class, including me. This keeps me engaged in teaching and furthers my own intellectual development class by class and course by course." — Assistant Professor of Linguistics Line Mikkelsen
J.D. Salinger a Disguised War Writer
When J.D. Salinger died last year he was eulogized as a misanthropic genius who had captured the alienation of adolescence with his most famous work, Catcher in the Rye. What is less known, says Berkeley English professor Scott Saul, is that the book’s hero, Holden Caulfield, is partly as a stand-in for anguished soldiers returning home from fighting in World War II.
Insulin-like Signal Needed to Keep Stem Cells Alive in Adult Brain
UC Berkeley, biologists have found a signal that keeps stem cells alive in the adult brain, providing a focus for scientists looking for ways to re-grow or re-seed stem cells in the brain to allow injured areas to repair themselves.
New Funding Expands Access to R&C Curriculum
The campus has allocated new funding to departments to increase the number of Reading and Composition courses beginning in fall 2010, ensuring class access to all students.
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