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Cal teams make strides through High Performance

Last updated Sunday, March 11, 2012 - 3:41pm

BERKELEY, Calif. -- First-year California women's basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb gathers her staff in a conference room for a weekly "High Performance" meeting and welcomes the team's athletic trainer, strength coach, academic adviser and media relations representative.

The philosophy bred by athletic director Sandy Barbour is quite basic: Bring everybody who works with the Golden Bears' student-athletes into one place to maximize communication and ensure the players are getting the most out of their experience, and that Cal is reaping the benefits in performance, too.

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Everyone's talking about 'gossip' study that finds it's beneficial

Victoria Colliver San Francisco Chronicle

Last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 12:46pm

If you don't have something nice to say ... well, go ahead and say it anyway. You may actually be doing something good for your health as well as humanity.

University of California, Berkeley, psychologists have found that gossiping - specifically, spreading information about a person who has behaved badly -- can play a critical role in maintaining social order, preventing exploitation and lowering stress.

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(WAYNE TILCOCK/The Associated Press) University of California, Davis Police Lt. John Pike uses pepper spray to move Occupy UC Davis protesters while blocking their exit from the school’s quad Friday in Davis, Calif. Two University of California, Davis police officers involved in pepper spraying seated protesters were placed on administrative leave Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011, as the chancellor of the school accelerates the investigation into the incident.

Univ. of Calif., Davis police chief now on leave

Jason Dearen The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, November 21, 2011 - 10:50am

SAN FRANCISCO — The president of the University of California system said he was “appalled” at images of protesters being doused with pepper spray and plans an assessment of law enforcement procedures on all 10 campuses, as two police officers and the police chief were placed on administrative leave.

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UC Berkeley police shoot armed man in campus building

Doug Oakley, Matthia Gafni The Oakland Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 2:28pm

BERKELEY, Calif. -- A man who was shot Tuesday afternoon by University of California Berkeley police at the Haas School of Business has died of his injuries, according to campus officials.

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Mumps breaks out on college campus

Matt Krupnick Contra Costa Times

Last updated Friday, October 7, 2011 - 3:00pm

BERKELEY, Calif. -- Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students and employees lined up outside the campus health center Thursday for free vaccinations after a mumps outbreak infected up to 20 students.

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Fish known as wrasses are found to use tools

David Perlman San Francisco Chronicle

Last updated Friday, September 30, 2011 - 2:36pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- Chimps do it, birds do it, and now it turns out that fish do it, too -- they all use tools of one kind or another to catch whatever they need to eat.

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Hundreds turn out for Berkeley race-based, gender-based bake sale

Matt Krupnick Contra Costa Times

Last updated Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 5:16pm

BERKELEY, Calif. -- What started as a satirical bake sale against race-based admissions turned into a massive rally on university diversity and affirmative action programs Tuesday as hundreds crowded Sproul Plaza on the University of California, Berkeley campus.

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New living tissue research is only skin deep

Tovin Lapan Santa Cruz Sentinel

Last updated Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - 3:20pm

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- A fluorescent protein found in Monterey Bay's crystal jellyfish is helping University of California-Santa Cruz scientists peer deeper into living tissue.

A team of UCSC researchers is developing new technology that weds methods and equipment used for exploring space with the pursuit of more refined and detailed images of living tissue.

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