Just when you thought Berkeley couldn’t get any more prestigious, the annual $500,000 MacArthur genius grants have been announced, and two Berkeley professors were our lucky winners (pocket protectors not included).

Recipient Maneesh Agrawala is an associate professor of EECS; not to be outdone, Lin He is a molecular biologist and assistant MCB professor.

And now that they’ve won all that money, what are they going to do next? Well, forget offshore banking in the Cayman Islands read more »

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So maybe becoming an EECS or Math major no longer means choosing an awkward, sexless, and sunshine-deprived existence. In fact, it may just mean you’ll be the one to snag the hot girl at the party, that is, if you, uh, actually go to them.

According to a life-changing new study out of the department of Psychology at UC Davis, women go for more than just good looks (gasp). Apparently, something like survival-of-the-smartest kicks in when a woman meets a man, and she considers how his intelligence level might affect the kind of genes he may pass to their future progeny. read more »

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