Richard K. Olney, MD, founding director of the ALS Treatment and Research Center at UCSF and a pioneer in clinical research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), has died at age 64, following his own eight-year battle with the disease.
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UCSF ALS Center’s founding director dies of the disease he studied
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A year of protest, progress and a very special prize
Just as Time magazine named the Protester as its person of the year, so did unrest shape much of 2011 for the University of California.
Reverberations from January and February's anti-Mubarek protests in Egypt were felt halfway around the world, as UC took emergency measures to evacuate 30 students, faculty and staff enrolled in a study abroad program and taking part in an archaeological dig.
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Education Abroad photo contest winners named
The University of California Education Abroad Program (UCEAP) recently announced the winners of the 2011 Study Abroad Photo Contest.
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Saul Perlmutter wins Nobel Prize in physics
Saul Perlmutter of Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for his work with the Supernova Cosmology Project.
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Dorothy Leland named UC Merced chancellor
Georgia College & State University President Dorothy Leland was appointed by the University of California Board of Regents to serve as the third chancellor of UC Merced.
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Charles Perrin: icon of organic chemistry
Veteran professor begins his 50th year at UC San Diego.
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Lessons from the singing pathologist
One of Arie Perry's teaching techniques is putting some of the hard-to-learn facts about neuropathology to music.
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Building bridges to students at black colleges
Program seeks to forge relationships between UC faculty and historically black colleges and universities.
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A closer look at climate on UC's campuses
Students, faculty, staff urged to complete survey of workplace, school experiences.
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Meet the Indiana Jones of insects
Mark Hoddle, director of the Center for Invasive Species Research at UC Riverside, is looking for a way to save the state's oak trees from an invasive threat: the goldspotted oak borer beetle, which has killed up to 80,000 trees in Southern California.