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Cal golfer earns spot in U.S. Open

WESTERVILLE, Ohio - Michael Kim atoned for the University of California not winning the NCAA title by earning a spot in the U.S. Open.Kim might have had the longest trip to get to Merion next week...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/golf/2013-06-03/cal-golfer-earns-spot-us-ope
Social media increasingly important for military families

...of warfare has had that level of access to their families," said Benjamin Karney, a social psychologist at University of California-Los Angeles, who studies marriage and family relationships in the military.Karney and three other researchers...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-05-12/social-media-increasingly-imp
US swim team still strong without Phelps

...events and claimed five medals.Franklin plans to remain an amateur for two more years while swimming at the University of California, then turn professional a year before the Rio Olympics. Schmitt also passed on the chance to cash in on her...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/2013-05-13/us-swim-team-still-strong-without
Panera extends pay-what-you-want idea

...pay substantially more if they know a portion goes to charity. But that same study, led by Leif Nelson of the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, found that inclusion of a charitable component made people less likely...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-03-27/panera-extends-pay-what-yo
Are lesbian athletes more accepted than gays?

...are often ways that even younger men try to prove their heterosexuality," says Herek, a psychologist at the University of California, Davis, who has, for years, studied this phenomenon and how it plays out in the gay community.That is not...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/other-sports/2013-04-27/are-lesbian-athletes
After price spikes, gas could get cheaper in 2013

...little more reason the Fed doesn't have to worry about inflation," said James Hamilton, an economist at the University of California at San Diego who studies energy prices.Forecasters caution that they can't predict other factors such as Middle...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-01-10/after-price-spikes-gas-cou
Atlanta tight end Tony Gonzalez nears end of his career

...doesn't have all that much to do with it.Going back to his college days, when he also played basketball at the University of California, he learned to put his hoop skills to use on the gridiron. No one is better at going up to pull down high throws...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/2013-01-10/atlanta-tight-end-tony-gonzalez-n
The Artside: Brian Rust's smaller works in exhibit

...natural objects.A native of Washington State, Rust earned degrees from the University of Washington and the University of California Berkeley. He is a professor of art at Augusta State University, where he teaches courses in sculpture, drawing...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/applause/2013-01-08/artside-brian-rusts-s
Corps finds deficiencies in US levees, including Augusta's

...said Jeffrey Mount, a levee management specialist and founder of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis. "We're in a never-ending cycle of flood and rebuild."

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-01-17/corps-finds-deficiencies-us-l
Falling apart?

...activity, and educational failure. ..."Dr. George Akerlof, a Nobel-prize-winning economist at the University of California-Berkeley, is particularly perceptive in this regard. In two different studies, he argues that the sexual...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2013-01-20/falling-apart