Off the beaten track
11/01/13 — Meet Jean-Paul Tennant, CFO of the international adventure travel company GeoEx.
News
Dean’s word: A new design for education
11/01/13 — A $20 million gift from Qualcomm executive chairman Paul Jacobs launches a new center for design innovation.
New UCSD dean
11/01/13 — Albert P. Pisano, a distinguished member of the mechanical engineering faculty for 30 years, has been named dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego.
Welcoming new UC president
11/01/13 — The college welcomes the new president of the University of California, Janet Napolitano.
Comments
11/01/13 — Friends, followers and readers: Thanks for your comments. Here is a recent sampling. RE: “Design: The new toolkit for teaching engineering,” Innovations, September 2013 Great offering. I only hope that the design experience includes interaction with those who fund or will benefit from the design—no design is complete until it receives public interaction and input. […]
Jacobs gift launches design institute
11/01/13 — A $20 million gift launches the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, a hands-on design center primarily for undergraduates.
Envisioning low-cost solar
11/01/13 — Berkeley scientists have found that low-cost solar power could supply more than a third of all energy needs in the western U.S. by 2050.
People’s choice
11/01/13 — In the age of the Internet and social media, old investing models may be giving way to newer models, such as crowdfunding.
Q+A with Ali Javey
11/01/13 — EECS professor Ali Javey has been widely covered in the science press for breakthroughs ranging from a new, low-cost method for manufacturing high efficiency photovoltaics to improved ‘e-skin'
Why are rubies red?
11/01/13 — Alum and materials science and engineering professor Ron Gronsky explains what makes rubies red.
Concrete knowledge
11/01/13 — Berkeley scientists have learned the secret of exactly what makes Roman seawater concrete so durable.
Under observation
11/01/13 — Scientists have discovered a better way to study integrins experimentally, by creating a computer model.
Say what?
11/01/13 — A Berkeley research team has created a computer program that can rebuild protolanguages - the ancestral languages from which modern languages evolved - in days or even hours.
Bend it like Wu
11/01/13 — Materials science and engineering professor Junqiao Wu and Berkeley Lab colleagues have created a microscale actuator that's smaller than the width of a human hair and can bend like a finger.
Check your head
11/01/13 — Researchers have developed affordable technology to help diagnose brain injuries in real time.
Artificial forest
11/01/13 — Berkeley researchers have developed an “artificial forest,” a model that directly converts sunlight into chemical fuels in a process that mimics photosynthesis.
Diving to the edge of darkness
11/01/13 — At Hawkes Ocean Technologies, alum Adam Wright builds manned submarines capable of underwater flight.
Creek life
11/01/13 — Grad student Aysha Massell works to restore the storied Strawberry Creek on campus.
Building a super bowl
11/01/13 — An insider's look into the construction of the new Levi's Stadium, the NFL's first LEED Gold stadium and among the fastest ever constructed.
Alumni notes
11/01/13 — News and photos of Berkeley Engineering alumni from decades past.