The human eye long ago solved a problem common to both digital and film cameras: how to get good contrast in an image while also capturing faint detail. New experiments by UCBerkeley neurobiologists show how the eye accomplishes this amazing feat. 

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A Spanish Language and Culture lecturer, Amelia Barili inspires students to use their skills to help others through pedagogy that integrate recent findings of cognitive science neurobiology and service learning.

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Three faculty members, including two in the College of Letters and Science, were awarded  2011 Distinguished Teaching Awards, the campus’s top honor for exceptional teaching. They are Robin Einhorn, a professor of history; Phillip Geissler, an associate professor of chemistry; and Kent Puckett, an associate professor of English.

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Every year since 2006, L&S's On the Same Page program has given incoming freshmen something to think and talk about — a book, a film, or a timely topic of discussion. Next year’s program, entitled “Voices of Berkeley,” will give students a chance to talk about how they talk.

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Following a summit at UC Berkeley, leading West Coast seismologists, including Associate Professor Richard Allen, recommended at a news conference the establishment of an earthquake early warning system in California, Oregon and Washington.

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Mark Schlissel, dean of L&S's Biological Sciences Division, will become provost of Brown University starting July 1. Schlissel  joined the UC Berkeley faculty in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology in 1999. He was appointed dean of Biological Sciences in July 2008.

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