Biological Sciences

Global Talent for a Global University: The Curci Foundation Ph.D. Scholarship Program

October 30, 2020

Aware of the vital importance of exemplary graduate students in life sciences research, the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation has initiated a scholarship program to provide funding for new Ph.D. students. But its efforts go far beyond simple, across-the-board scholarship support. Believing that all qualified applicants should be included in the life sciences enterprise, the foundation is focusing on two groups that do not traditionally garner the strongest financial support — international students and women. The Curci Foundation Ph.D. Scholarship Program creatively links these two...

https://light.berkeley.edu/o/global-talent-global-university/

In a desert seared by climate change, burrowers fare better than birds

February 4, 2021
Kara Manke

In the arid Mojave Desert, small burrowing mammals like the cactus mouse, the kangaroo rat and the white-tailed antelope squirrel are weathering the hotter, drier conditions triggered by climate change much better than their winged counterparts, finds a new study published today in Science.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/02/04/in-a-desert-seared-by-climate-change-burrow…