Sunday Routine - Gibor Basri - Relaxing and Reaching for the Stars - NYTimes.com Gibor Basri was an astrophysics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, when he was tapped in 2007 to be the university's first vice-chancellor for equity and inclusion. Dr. Basri, 58, whose mother is Jamaican and whose father was an Iraqi Jew, oversees efforts to recruit and retain students and faculty and staff members of color. Dr. Basri is a co-discoverer of brown dwarfs, which can be described as celestial bodies midway in mass between large planets and small stars. His wife, Jessica Broitman, is a psychoanalyst. His words have been edited and condensed. LAZING IN BED Typically, we'll sleep in until about 8:30 on Sunday. I get up and go downstairs and make us mochas. I get the newspapers, and then we spend the next hour and a half in bed with the papers. We don't have a real breakfast. We have a Balance Bar or something. RAISING THE HEART RATE Then we go for a walk up the Claremont fire trail. It's about a 400-foot vertical climb. You get the bay and the five-bridge view. After that, we go to the Claremont health club and do a half-hour workout. I usually do weights. FAMILY TIME My mother lives about 10 minutes away in assisted living. Sunday is a day I typically go see her. She's 92. She's still quite alert. She was a dancer, and she danced with Martha Graham in the late "40s. She works out in the gym two times a day. On Sunday, we took her to Jack London Square. QUICK BITE We had dinner around 6. I never cook. I barbecue. Jessica is a pretty good gourmet cook. She's vegetarian. I'm not vegetarian. GAZING AT THE STARS Around 6:30, I started working on the Kepler project data for NASA. Kepler is a space telescope dedicated to the search for Earth-size planets. It is staring at a particular patch of sky and looking at a whole bunch of stars, waiting to see if any of them show the signature of a planet crossing in front of the star. What you see is that the point of light gets fainter for a bit and then brightens again. When the same thing happens a few times, you say this must be a planet. We are trying to characterize the different kind of variables that we see in these stars. SLEEP, OR NOT We typically end the day in bed, watching something we have taped. Last night we watched "House." We often go to sleep a little after 10. We're both very good at falling asleep, but I typically wake up again at 4. That's when I do my reflective thinking. I may work on a scientific problem. I think about what I am going to do. Or I may think about equity inclusion, what strategy we should use. It's real quiet. I don't open my eyes or get up or anything. More Articles in US " A version of this article appeared in print on December 13, 2009, on page A48A of the New York edition.