Posts by Keith Joseph McAleer

[ad_1] Six UC Berkeley researchers have been elected 2023 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals. The honorees, announced today (Thursday, April 18), are among 502 scientists, engineers and innovators recognized for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements. UC Berkeley’s new…

[ad_1] On a sunny Friday morning graduate students and postdocs gathered in a conference room in Stanley Hall to have an intimate and frank conversation with Annie Tsong, PhD. Tsong is the chief strategy and product officer at Amyris, a company based in Emeryville, CA, and founded out of UC Berkeley’s Jay Keasling’s lab. She…

[ad_1] Richard K. Lyons, former dean of the Haas School of Business and current associate vice chancellor and chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer, has been selected to become UC Berkeley’s next chancellor. Lyons will assume his new role on July 1, 2024, when current Chancellor Carol T. Christ retires. University of California President Michael V.…

[ad_1] Viviana Alvarez Sanchez, former head of sustainability for Unilever North America, moderates the opening panel at the CFRM conference. With the Security and Exchange Commission’s long-awaited climate-disclosure rules blocked by litigation, public companies will continue to operate with a patchwork of laws and standards on sustainability reporting for the near future.  But the consensus…

[ad_1] The Berkeley Haas Full-Time MBA Program claimed the #7 spot among full-time programs in the 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Business Schools ranking. The FTMBA program moved up four slots to tie for #7 with the Yale School of Management and NYU’s Stern School of Business. Except for 2021 and 2023, the…

[ad_1] Destin Lasco, BS 24, at the NCAA championships in Indianapolis last month, where he broke the NCAA and American men’s 200 backstroke record. Cal Athletics photo by Justin Casterline. As a UC Berkeley freshman, Destin Lasco, BS 24, of the Cal Men’s Swimming & Diving team, emerged as one of the nation’s best backstrokers.…

[ad_1] Assistant Professor Kiera Hudson studies schadenfreude and the psychological and biological roots of power hierarchies. Assistant Professor Sa-kiera “Kiera” Hudson has received a 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, presented annually to early-career faculty with the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education. The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program…

[ad_1] In January, CITRIS at UC Merced hosted its seventh annual session of ¡Valle! Get Your Start in Tech!, a workforce development program that introduces undergraduate students from community colleges and universities in California’s Central Valley to skills and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. The weekend’s events were designed to foster…

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