Preserving the forest of the sea
UC Berkeley's Kathy Ann Miller reveals secrets of one of the greatest seaweed collections in the world.

KQED
Viruses engineered to attack themselves
San Francisco Chronicle
Amy Wilentz and the Lure of Haiti
Time spoke with the UC Irvine journalism professor on the occasion of the three-year anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti.

Time
UC Berkeley chancellor to head initiative for public universities
UC Berkeley\'s Robert J. Birgeneau will lead a national effort to study and help public universities in an era of reduced tax support, new technology and changing student demographics.

Los Angeles Times
Keep public universities public
UCLA Chancellor Gene Block was one of eight experts asked by Time magazine to share their ideas for improving higher education in the magazine's Oct. 29 issue.

UCLA
A crusade against sugar
UCSF researcher\'s new book casts the sweet stuff as a toxic contributor to obesity.

San Francisco Chronicle
Cal hoopster now helps clinical trial
A heart condition benched Tierra Rogers before she played a college game. Now she's in a clinical trial that she hopes will keep other athletes in the game.

Associated Press via Washington Post