George Smoot
Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics, George Smoot has been an astrophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1974 and has been a physics professor at University of California?Berkeley since 1994. He lives in Berkeley, ... [... more]
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Barry Siegel
Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, Barry Siegel is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. He now directs the literary journalism program at the University of California, Irvine, where he is a professor of ... [... more]
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Daphne Miller, M.D.
Daphne Miller, MD, is a board-certified family physician in private practice in San Francisco. She is an associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco, where she teaches nutrition and integrative medicine. A graduate of Brown ... [... more]
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Richard E. Friedman
Richard Elliott Friedman is professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature and holds the Katzin Chair at the University of California, San Diego. One of the premier biblical scholars in the country, he received his ... [... more]
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Hindi Greenberg
Hindi Greenberg graduated in the top ten percent of her class from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, in 1974. A member of both the State Bar of California and the American ... [... more]
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Ayla E. Algar
Ayla Algar, the Mellon Lecturer in Turkish at the University of California, Berkeley, was born and raised in Turkey and visits there often. She has written for the San Francisco Chronicle and is the author of The ... [... more]
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Jessica Anya Blau
Jessica Anya Blau is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and the Johns Hopkins University, where she received her master's degree. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where she teaches creative writing at Johns ... [... more]
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James D. Stein, Jr.
James D. Stein is a professor of mathematics at California State University, Long Beach. A graduate of Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley, he lives in Redondo Beach, California. In How Math Explains the World , ... [... more]
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Kathleen S. Yep, Dr.
Dr. Kathleen S. Yep is an assistant professor of Asian American studies and sociology at Pitzer College, which is a member of the Claremont Colleges in Southern California. She received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. at the University of California, ... [... more]
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Leonard Shlain
Leonard Shlain is Chairman of Laparoscopic Surgery at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and is Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the author of ... [... more]
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Sandy Simpson
Sandy L. Simpson has been the head coach of women's basketball at the University of California, Davis, since 1996. He has also held coaching positions at the University of Washington, George Washington Universtiy, ... [... more]
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Annie Wang
Annie Wang was born in 1972 and grew up in Beijing. She came to the United States in 1993 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1996. She worked in The Washington Post's Beijing bureau before ... [... more]
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