A new summer institute on energy in Livermore Sandia’s Summer Institute: Technology and Policy Tools for Energy in an Uncertain World is a new cross-discipline week-long research program for top graduate students from the nation’s premier universities. Twenty select graduate students will collaborate in small teams, working side-by-side with leading scientists from Sandia. Participants will develop new career skills by solving challenging problems in a fast-paced, collegial work environment.
Berkeley graduate students have many outlets to showcase their work For the Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative (BERC), the word "collaborative" is key. The graduate-student-led organization brings together people across campus — in the sciences, business, law, and policy — to address pressing energy and natural resource issues. BERC also helps to link the Berkeley campus to other professionals working in these areas.
Berkeley tops the list of new DOE Graduate Fellowships recipients With 19 out of 150 fellowships awarded — over an eighth of the total, more than any other university — UC Berkeley welcomes the lion's share of students in energy studies across its college and departments who will be studying here for up to three years, with support from the U.S. Department of Energy.
A “solar suitcase” brings light and communication to health workers in remote regions — and honors to a public health doctoral candidate Laura Stachel is a doctoral candidate in the School of Public Health. She's also an M.D. — an obstetrician who earned that degree at UCSF.
Energy Secretary advances nano science in spare time Apparently the most-Berkeley person in the Obama cabinet, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu (former director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley Ph.D. '76), makes scientific contributions, and news, even while he takes it easy. "In his down time, often while flying somewhere," reported AP science writer Seth Borenstein, Chu "relaxes by tackling a scientific conundrum and stretching the limits of technology."
Joining a global campus network, Berkeley launches a new master’s degree program in sustainability Recognizing the proven leadership of campus faculty and students in addressing climate change, poverty and public health, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in May selected the University of California, Berkeley, as one of 10 universities worldwide to launch a new master’s degree program in development practice.
Dr. Chu goes to Washington His full name is Steven Chu. That he’s not a very formal guy is clear from the headline from the news released by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which he currently heads — “Obama Picks Berkeley Lab Director Steve Chu for Energy Secretary.”