Marchant Building in promotional materials for East Bay Green Corridor. The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory received a fourth Berkeley proposal for a new campus – the old Marchant Building on San Pablo Avenue near Ashby Avenue. Redico, a Michigan-based real-estate development company, suggested to the lab that the 540,000 square foot building on a 6.5 […]
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Many contenders for Berkeley Lab’s second campus
Berkeley Lab received 21 submissions for possible sites for a second campus, according to Jon Weiner, a lab spokesman. Eight East Bay cities, including Berkeley, Oakland, Albany, Richmond, Alameda, Walnut Creek and Dublin pitched sites for the new campus, according to various news reports. The proposed sites include a 30-acre swath of land adjacent to […]
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Three Berkeley sites proposed for new LBL campus
The current Berkeley Lab campus in the hills above Berkeley/Photo: LBL When officials from Berkeley Lab open proposals for a second campus today, there will be three Berkeley-based offers: one at Golden Gate Fields, and two separate projects near Aquatic Park, according to informed sources who asked not to be named. The fact that there […]
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Berkeley Lab’s Saul Perlmutter wins Einstein Medal
Physicist Saul Perlmutter from Berkeley Lab. Photo: LBNL, Roy Kaltschmidt. Saul Perlmutter, a professor of physics at UC Berkeley and part of the Physics Division at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, has been awarded this year’s Einstein Medal, presented by the Albert Einstein Society. The medal was awarded for “discovering the acceleration of the universe” through the […]
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Mountain lion sighted near Berkeley Labs Wednesday
A mountain lion was seen walking away from a building at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on Wednesday this week at approximately 8:22 a.m., according to the UC Berkeley police. There have been several sightings of mountain lions in Berkeley in recent months. Last August a mountain lion was shot and killed after being found walking […]
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Lawrence Berkeley Lab issues wish list for new campus
Aerial view of Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Photo: LBL Photo: Berkeley Lab Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory released today the Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for their proposed second campus. The second campus, announced in September, is designed to consolidate four remote sites and allow for future growth for LBL, which is constrained by the physical limits of […]
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Capturing Berkeleyside photographer Keoki Seu
"I'm starting with the man in the mirror" by Keoki Seu Readers often admire the photography on Berkeleyside and ask us who takes the images. Chances are they are probably referring to the work of Keoki Seu, whose photographs often accompany our daily news Wire, frequently pop up in our weekly “Where in Berkeley?” slot […]
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Lawrence Berkeley Lab ready for thousands of visitors
Aerial view of Lawrence Berkeley Lab/Photo: LBL For most residents of Berkeley, the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab is a mysterious presence on the hills over the university campus. Unless you work there or have business there, you won’t get passed the security on the gates. Tomorrow, however, 4,000 members of the public will get a […]
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Lawrence Berkeley Lab seeks second campus
UC's Richmond Field Station, shown in brown Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory seems to Berkeleyans to sprawl over the hills above the university. But with only 200 acres, the lab finds itself pressed for space. Most of the 4,200 employees are on the site in the Berkeley hills, but about 20% are at the Joint BioEnergy […]
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Biotech Academy students get hands-on education
Biotech Academy students look for clues. The woman had been missing for six months, with no clue to her whereabouts. Now police had found her car, and it was covered with what looked like blood splatters, blood trails, and a bullet hole. William Clark and Evanney Salisi went to work analyzing the clues. They looked […]
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Berkeley Lab reaches out to its city’s community
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is determined to be a good neighbor and, under director Paul Alivisatos, it has launched a number of initiatives to stay in close communication with Berkeley residents. A recently formed Community Advisory Group is holding meetings every two months with the public to provide information on the Lab’s physical planning and […]
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Berkeley scientist advises on clean-up in gulf oil spill
Terry Hazen By Jane Tierney A Berkeley scientist who is advising British Petroleum is cautioning against the use of too many detergents to clean up the vast oil spill in the gulf. Terry Hazen, a microbial ecologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and a leading bioremediation expert, is advising authorities that using detergents […]
