July • 2010

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Of the 118 known elements included in the Periodic Table, 16 were discovered at UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. They include berkelium (Bk), discovered in 1949; californium (Cf), discovered in 1950; lawrencium (Lr), discovered in 1961 and named for lab founder and Nobel physicist Ernest O. Lawrence; and seaborgium (Sg), discovered in 1974 and named after the Nobel chemist Glenn Seaborg who was involved with the discovery of many of these elements.

Power of 10: News from UC campuses

UC Berkeley libraries will house one of the world’s most important collections of Jewish historical archives, rare books, art and music. The donor-funded acquisition from the Judah L. Magnes Museum will make the materials more accessible to scholars.
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UC Davis will maintain the nation’s first criminal dog-fighting DNA database, which will help investigators identify connections among breeders, trainers and dog-fighting operations.
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UC Irvine studies on bruising and the ability of seniors to remember intentional injuries are helping prosecute elder abuse cases.
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UCLA health policy researchers found that women without a high school diploma were nearly four times more likely to be without health insurance than college-educated women.
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UC Merced is partnering with Harvard University in a Latino Leadership Initiative. Six UC Merced students were selected to participate in the inaugural class.
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UC Riverside MBA students will work with Riverside County and Japanese officials on the first study of foreign investment in the county.
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UC San Diego engineers developed “smart underwear” to monitor biomarkers found in sweat as part of a textile-based system that could diagnose battlefield injuries and automatically trigger a life-saving medication release. The U.S. Department of Naval Research is funding the work.
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UC San Francisco generates 39,000 jobs in the Bay Area and $6 billion in economic impact annually, including salaries and employee and student purchasing.
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UC Santa Barbara students raised $27,000 for Isla Vista community groups by selling, rather than throwing away, unwanted items when they moved from their dorms and apartments for the summer.
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UC Santa Cruz students are helping the city’s wharf become 100 percent energy self-sufficient by exploring the possibility of installing solar cells and small wind turbines at the historic Santa Cruz structure.
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