Professor Thomas W. Laqueur is the recipient of the Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award for his study of such unconventional topics as the history of sexuality, death and dying, and the body and gender.
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History Professor Wins $1.5 Million Mellon Prize
Reading Signs: Shedding Light on Ancient Science
Near Eastern Studies’ newest faculty member brings an understanding of ancient science and its direct connections to the present.
Nobelist George Smoot Launches Cosmology Center
George Smoot's dream of founding the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics has become reality, with a $500,000 endowment gift from Smoot himself and additional gifts totaling $8.1 million.
$2.4 Million Grant for Math and Science Teaching
UC Berkeley officials announced on Dec. 3 that the campus has been awarded a $2.4 million grant from the National Science and Math Initiative (NMSI) to further boost its efforts to prepare science and math teachers.
Celebrating Achievements in the Arts and Humanities
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Faculty accomplishments in the arts and humanities were celebrated on November 6 as Dean Janet Broughton hosted the first annual gathering to honor faculty.
Joint Digital Project to Boost Irish Studies
A digital collaboration between UC Berkeley and the Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland aims to better connect Irish scholars and Irish studies materials and to make them easily accessible everywhere with a quick click of a mouse.
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