The Division of Arts & Humanities in the College of Letters & Science and the College of Environmental Design will collaborate to develop new pedagogical and research methodologies thanks to a $1.75 million, four-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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The American Institute of Physics announced today (Thursday, Jan. 24) that Robert J. Birgeneau, chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, will receive the 2012 Karl Taylor Compton Medal for Leadership in Physics.

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For the lucky few, soaring over San Francisco with the Blue Angels is the dream of a lifetime you want to sit back and enjoy. But for UC Berkeley astronomer Alex Filippenko, it was a teaching opportunity.

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Astronomer Geoff Marcy and cosmologist and string theorist Raphael Bousso are among 20 scientists awarded research grants to explore innovative and edgy areas of science. In the case of Marcy and Bousso, these areas are on the border between science and science fiction.

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Truthiness—it’s based less on facts than on self-satisfaction. Is it worth it? This is what undergraduates discussed in their essays for the Berkeley Center for the Study of Value Prize in Personal Integrity contest. The prize winners examined truthiness in relation to "the American Dream,” social science research in a democracy, and eating disorders.

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Sally Goldman from South & Southeast Asian Studies, Ted Miguel from Economics, Joanna Picciotto from English, and Debarati Sanyal from French were all honored for their exceptional teaching.

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