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GMS Affiliate Randy Katz Named Vice Chancellor for Research
By Robert Sanders, Media relations; original story from Berkeley News, available here. Randy Howard Katz, who helped develop many of the wireless tools and fast, reliable computer storage we take for granted today, has been appointed vice chancellor for research at UC Berkeley. Katz, the United Microelectronics Corporation Distinguished Professor in the Department of…
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GMS Lecture Series 2017-2018 Announced
The Global Metropolitan Studies Lecture Series 2017-2018 is now announced. Please join us for public talks and other related events around our guests: Liesbet Hooghe, UNC Chapel Hill Kagure Wamunyu, Oxford University Eleonora Pasotti, UC Santa Cruz Nikhil Anand, University of Pennsylvania Click to download the Lecture Series poster.
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GMS and Social Science Matrix Co-Sponsor Infrastructure Initiative
The Social Science Matrix and GMS will be co-sponsoring a research initiative called The Berkeley Infrastructure Initiative: Collaborative, Interdisciplinary Policy Research in the Public Interest. The initiative will bring together faculty and students with a shared interest in the planning, governance, finance, design, development, economics, and environmental effects of infrastructure. This program will be run…
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GMS Urban Photo Contest Winners & New Website
GMS would like to congratulate the three student winners of the GMS 2017 Urban Photo Contest! With the addition of these fantastic images, we also announce the launch of the new GMS website: http://metrostudies.berkeley.edu/ The new GMS website will feature images of Havana by Isabella Warren-Mohr, San Francisco by Ashley Boots, and New Orleans by…
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Holston wins Chancellor’s Award for Public Service
Professor James Holston (Anthropology) has been named a recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Public Service for his collaborative project between AppCivist and the City of Vallejo. The project developed and implemented the social media app AppCivist for participatory budgeting in the City of Vallejo. The Chancellor’s Award for Public Service is given by the…