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Legendary environmental leader and publisher David Brower (the subject of an exhibit at Doe Library at UC Berkeley until March 31) worked as an editor at UC Press 70 years ago and met his future wife, Anne, on the job. In the current issue of the Cal alumni magazine, their son Kenneth Brower shares this [more...]  Congratulations to Mary Power and Dan Simberloff who, along with 82 other distinguished scientists (4, including Power, from UC Berkeley), were elected to the National Academy of Sciences this week. Mary Power is a freshwater ecologist and has done groundbreaking work on the Eel River. Mary also serves on the editorial board of our own Freshwater [more...] UC Berkeley Sociology Professor Martín Sánchez-Jankowski has devoted his career to studying the very thing he once tried to escape—poverty. Born to indigenous and mestizo migrant laborers in Sonoro, Mexico, Sánchez-Jankowski moved to Michigan with his family when he was a child. “Obviously when you live in (poverty), you want to get out of it,” he said, [more...] University of California Press congratulates Robert Hass, whose most recent book, Time and Materials (Ecco/Harper Collins), has received the National Book Award for poetry. Hass, a professor at UC Berkeley, is one of the four series editors (with Calvin Bedient, Forrest Gander, and Brenda Hillman) of UC Press’s New California Poetry series, which also garnered a [more...] |
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