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Winners of the 2012 Wolf Prize listen to Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin's speech during an award ceremony in the Knesset (Israeli parliament) in Jerusalem on May 13, 2012. Winners (L-R); US Paul Alivisatos in Chemistry, from University of California at Berkeley, US Charles Lieber in Chemistry from Harvard University, US Michael Aschbacher in Mathematics, from California institute of technology, US Luis Caffarelli in Mathematics, from University of Texas at Austin, Israeli Jacob D. Bekenstein in Physics, from Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Medicine, US Ronald Evans in Medicine, from Gene Expression Laboratory, The Salk Institute. The 100,000 dollar Wolf Prize is an international award granted in Israel, that has been presented most years since 1978 to scientists and artists.
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A lot of my friends from my club team went to (University of California at) Berkeley, then I came on a trip (to Michigan)
The University of California has, quite literally, developed something for everyone. From the soil under our feet to the ozone in our atmosphere and the galaxies beyond, UC has contributed to our understanding of the universe
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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg marries sweetheart
in one of the most anticipated stock offerings in Wall Street history Friday. And Chan graduated from medical school at the University of California , San Francisco , on Monday, the same day Zuckerberg turned 28. The couple met at Harvard and have been together Read more »
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Alternative Therapies Aren't Used as Substitutes for Asthma Meds: Study
prescribed asthma treatments," said study author Dr. Julie Philp, a pediatrician and a dermatology resident at the University of California , San Francisco .Results of the study were released online and published in the May issue of Pediatrics .Complementary Read more »
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Couple's generosity benefits education
in the 1990s, she was a college instructor and taught at four elementary schools.Ochoa holds a degree in corporate law from the University of California at Los Angeles and a bachelor's in history from Whittier College , a private liberal arts school in California. Read more »
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Mothers on Antidepressants Are Less Likely to Breast-Feed: Study
in this behavior as often as we would like to see," study co-author Christina Chambers, a professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego, said in a CPEIS news release."Whether this is due to the mother's fear of harming her baby by breast-feeding Read more »
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Familiar bad news, broadly cast
Cuts Threaten the Status of Universities ( New York Times ) ...For generations, the University of California system — home to such globally renowned institutions as Berkeley and U.C.L.A. — has been widely recognized as perhaps the best example of what public 6/1/12 from Dissent The Blog Read more »
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Following the Prop 29 Money Trail
that the company does not comment on historic documents. We should also note that the director of the tobacco library at University of California San Francisco, Dr. Stanton Glantz, supports Proposition 29 and has appeared in television commercials backing 6/1/12 from NBC Bay Area Read more »
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Anne Shen Smith named president and CEO of Southern California Gas Co.
at SoCalGas. Smith, who emigrated from Taiwan in the mid-1960s, earned a master's degree in operations research from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Michigan. SoCalGas is the 6/1/12 from L.A. Daily News Read more »
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UW Crews Remain Undefeated At IRA Nationals
mid-race move by Boston University and cruised to a five-second victory, clocking 6:14.95. Boston finished second and the University of California third. “This team has been through all sorts of challenges the last few years, so these guys have been tested,” 6/1/12 from Sportspressnw.com Read more »
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Optical tweezers help researchers uncover key mechanics in cellular communication
to University of California - Irvine for this article. This press release has been viewed 8 time(s). By using a laser microbeam technology called optical tweezers, UC Irvine and UCLA researchers have uncovered fundamental properties of a key molecular signaling 6/1/12 from Lab Spaces Read more »
