July • 2008

inside this issue

research in action:

working for the people of california

California Burning: This special report highlights UC's work in wildfire research.

72 percent of Early Academic Outreach Program participants complete high school courses required for UC and CSU admission compared with only 34 percent of non-participants.
72 percent of EAOP students attend college the first year after high school.
34 percent of EAOP students are eligible for UC admissions compared with 14.4 percent of non-participants.

Tom Lantos archive donated to UC Berkeley

The papers of the late Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos have been donated to the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley.

Lantos was the only Holocaust survivor to serve in the U.S. Congress. He escaped from a forced labor camp in his native Hungary during World War II and participated in the Nazi resistance movement.

Lantos immigrated to the United States in 1947 and attended the University of Washington and UC Berkeley, where he earned a Ph.D. in economics in 1953. He was an economics professor, business consultant and international affairs analyst for 30 years before making a successful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1980. He was elected to 14 terms.

Lantos died of cancer on Feb. 11 at the age of 80.

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