Carolyn Bertozzi, who shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, conducted her seminal work into bioorthogonal reactions while a professor at UC Berkeley. She also served as director of a Berkeley Lab nanoscience facility.
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Remembering Bill Gilbert, physicist, fitness buff, family man, neighborhood activist, quipster
A UC Berkeley graduate who started his career working on the hydrogen bomb, Gilbert’s conscience led him to leave defense work and focus on pure science.
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Remembering Marilyn Marjorie Moore Reynolds, a transportation planner and master gardener
She spent 25 years with the Metropolitan Planning Commission. After retiring, she became a master gardener and volunteered at Golden Gate Park. A memorial for her and her late husband is Feb. 1
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Mountain lion spotted by couple sitting on bench at Lawrence Hall of Science
It’s the second mountain lion sighting in the Berkeley hills in the past two months.
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Remembering Berkeley Lab’s Fred Lothrop, radio expert, civic-minded citizen
Fred Lothrop, who went to BHS, attended Cal, and worked at Berkeley Lab, was also a familiar face around Lafayette where he lived and contributed to civic life for many years.
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Berkeley Lab to hold mass evacuation drill Tuesday
The drill, which will start at 2:30 p.m., was prompted by recent wildfires, including in the North Bay, and may affect traffic locally.
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Art Rosenfeld, the ‘godfather’ of energy efficiency, dies at 90
Art Rosenfeld’s ideas about energy efficiency are one reason California’s energy consumption has stayed relatively flat.
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Operating ‘the world’s largest video game’: Reba Siero retires from storied career at Berkeley Lab
Siero is the first woman to have served as an accelerator operator at Berkeley Lab, working with the 88-Inch Cyclotron, a powerful particle-beam machine that started up 54 years ago at the Department of Energy-owned lab.
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Berkeley Lab scientists set sail to unlock climate data
What’s life like aboard a scientific research vessel plying the California coast deploying robots to unlock important data about climate change?
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Human skull, bones found on Berkeley Lab property
A human skull and three bones were unearthed on Berkeley Lab property on Monday. Photo: LBL A human skull and three human bones were discovered on Berkeley Lab property Monday during some routine digging to clear a ditch. According to a release put out by the Lab on Wednesday, a Lab facilities crew working to clear […]
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Oscar’s sign to OSCARS home at Berkeley Lab
A sign that graced the 65-year-old Berkeley burger joint has been snapped up by Berkeley Lab because they too have an OSCARS.
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Goats swarm across road, stop traffic in Berkeley Hills
A video (see below) showing hundreds of hard-working goats crossing Centennial Drive in the Berkeley hills has gone viral. Video still: David Stein A herd of grass-munching goats swarmed across Cyclotron Road in the Berkeley Hills last week on the way to another plant-clearing mission below Blackberry Gate. The goats are part of Berkeley Lab’s vegetation management plan […]