Public Affairs captured video of the space shuttle Endeavor as it flew over UC Berkeley at 10:20 a.m. Friday, Sept. 21, before heading off to its final home in Los Angeles.
Hundreds of Berkeley's international students showed up at Memorial Stadium Saturday for a training camp especially designed for them: "American Football 101." The one-hour Student Orientation event, hosted by the Berkeley International Office and Cal Athletics, offered the students instruction and practice in football drills led by Golden Bear players. The one-hour training is intended as a fun way to familiarize students with a sport that most of them have had little or no exposure to, growing up in foreign countries. Saturday's practice drills included punting, passing, receiving, blocking, sprinting, goal-kicking, and a lot of positive reinforcement from the player "coaches."
One student was overheard asking, "Why are these balls shaped this way? It does not make any sense to me."
Australian student, Herin Vais said, "[The] guys that have been taking us through the drills have been really good... they clearly know what they're doing. It's been a really great day."
The international students were also treated to pizza, a Cal T-shirt and a ticket to the football season home opening game against Grambling State University this Saturday.
Video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen McNally
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Join the Berkeley faculty for an impromptu teach-in on swine flu: the virus, its spread, and the likelihood of a pandemic. Panelists will describe the epidemiology and biology of the illness (which is caused by the A/H1N1 virus) and discuss the effectiveness of the U.S. and international response to the outbreak.
Panelists: Art Reingold (Public Health), Russell Vance (MCB), Wayne Getz (ESPM), and Amy Herr (Bioengineering)
The recent re-emergence of swine flu has triggered a strong response from the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the pharmaceutical industry--which claims that an effective vaccine could take months or years to produce. Impacts are being felt broadly, with governments issuing travel warnings, stock markets declining, and schools closing (including a school in San Jose, CA, where a student tested positive for the flu earlier this week). To date, swine flu has been confirmed in nine countries including the U.S., where nearly 100 people in 9 states have been infected. In Mexico, there have been more than 850 cases of pneumonia since March, with 59 deaths. So far, 26 of these cases have been confirmed as swine flu.
Sponsored by The Berkeley Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases ( http://globalhealth.berkeley.edu/cend/ ) and The Center for Global Public Health ( http://globalhealth.berkeley.edu/cgph/ ).