Focusing on the pots of the Ulua River Valley in northern Honduras, Rosemary Joyce, chair of Berkeley’s Anthropology Department, offers us a window into the Mesoamerican culture of the 8th century.
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Rosemary Joyce’s Research Digs at Questions of Identity
Three L&S Professors Win Distinguished Teacher Awards
Top teachers win Distinguished Teacher Awards, carrying on a proud, half-century Cal tradition. Three of the four honorees are in the College of Letters and Science.
Clues to a Midlife Dementia that Erases Personality
New clues have been uncovered by UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco researchers to a mystifying dementia that robs its victims of empathy and social skills, and leads to an early death.
Six L&S Professors Win Guggenheim Fellowships
Six UC Berkeley professors, all of them in the College of Letters and Science, are among 190 artists, scientists and scholars who have been awarded 2008 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowships, awarded for distinguished achievement and exceptional promise.
English Professor Robert Hass Wins Pulitzer Prize
Robert Hass, an award-winning UC Berkeley professor of English and former U.S. poet laureate, has won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his latest book, "Time and Materials."
Professor Devises Competition for 80-Year-Old Steinway
Bay Area piano teacher Leone Squires McGowan, who passed away in 2006, left an unusual bequest in her will: a six-foot model L Steinway piano that would go to “a worthy student of piano" at UC Berkeley. Music professor Davitt Moroney saw the gift as a special opportunity and challenege.
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