By: Matthew Gomez, San Francisco Chronicle
While many people cozy up next to warm fires in the winter, experts warn that owners of wood-burning fireplaces should take care when choosing wood and buy local.
Sudden oak death, other pests can lurk in firewood
Smartphone users can report sudden oak death
By: Pam Kan-Rice, University of California, Agriculture & Natural Resources
CNR Achieves LEED Gold on the Morgan Hall Laboratory Renovation. A first for UC Berkeley!
The 5,222 square foot renovation provides modern, efficient and sustainable labs that have been certified LEED Gold.
Clearing and Present Danger? Fog That Nourishes California Redwoods Is Declining
If the northern California coast gets less fog, the state's iconic redwoods may be in trouble.
HIV Prevalence in Africa Explained by "Marital Shopping"
Women and men in Africa experience a brief period in their lives while searching for the right marriage partner in which they are in a series of monogamous relationships with high turnover. This searching behavior generates a constant pool of individuals in short-term relationships.
Morello-Frosch receives accolades for environmental work
Associate Professor Rachel Morello-Frosch has received the Damu Smith Environmental Achievement Award from the Environment Section of the American Public Health Association
Russell Jones receives the Berkeley Citation Award
Professor Jones was presented with the Berkeley Citation at a reception honoring PMB faculty
Jillian Banfield to receive Franklin Medal, L'Oreal award
Jillian Banfield, a University of California, Berkeley, biogeochemist and geomicrobiologist, will receive two prestigious awards — the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth and Environmental Science and the L-Oréal-UNESCO "For Women in Science" award — for her groundbreaking work on how microbes alter rocks and interact with the natural world.
CAL Student Wins Prestigious Technology Prize
Iain Clark has won the prestigious 2010 International Huber Technology Prize in Munich, Germany, for his research on removing contaminants from groundwater. Clark, an Environmental Engineering Ph.D.
Oil Spill Aftermath
Discover Cal offers perspectives from Berkeley experts about the effects on the environment and efforts to make oil companies more careful, accountable, and socially responsible.
California Winegrowers Get $2.3 Million
Federal Farm Bill funds research and marketing programs
By: Kerry Kirkham, Wines & Vines
By: Kerry Kirkham, Wines & Vines
Matteo Garbelotto as Scientific Advisor to the EFSA
Matteo Garbelotto has been appointed as a Scientific Advisor to the European Food Safety Authority
ESPM's graduate program ranked among the best by National Research Council Study
The National Research Council (NRC) has just released detailed rankings of doctoral programs at research universities.
PMB's graduate programs ranked among the best by National Research Council Study
The National Research Council (NRC) has just released detailed rankings of doctoral programs at research universities.
Professor Daniel Zilberman Wins $2.1 Million NSF Grant
Professor Daniel Zilberman of Plant & Microbial Biology has won a $2.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study how to develop new technologies that will increase crop yields, directly addressing the problem of hunger in our society.
ARE ranked among the best in the nation in the National Research Council Study
The National Research Council released its rankings of graduate education programs and for the first time agricultural and resource economics was a field of study ranked in the survey.