UC Berkeley College of Engineering Dean S. Shankar Sastry will join a new United Nations Scientific Advisory Board that will provide counsel on international decisions on sustainable development.
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The UC Berkeley College of Engineering presented designs for a planned building to be built next to Soda Hall at a community open house Thursday. Read More…
Steve Wozniak of Apple Inc., Gordon Moore of Intel Corp. and Tom Anderson of Myspace LLC are among the many UC Berkeley alumni who have founded successful corporations, and according to a recent report by open-source data analytics service CrunchBase, UC Berkeley is the third-largest producer of successful entrepreneurs. The Read More…
UC Berkeley has been awarded $20 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development as part of the agency’s new partnership with seven universities around the world.
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UC Berkeley announced Tuesday it will be the recipient of a $60 million grant from the Simons Foundation to establish a theoretical computing center on campus. The new center, called the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, will be housed in Calvin Hall and will begin operations in 2013. Read More…
UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering is striving to increase gender and ethnic diversity among its students following allegations of discrimination last semester, although efforts are progressing gradually. The college garnered much attention last October when a California Watch article pointed out instances of sexism in the campus’s male-dominated engineering student Read More…