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April
11 , 2005 Vol. 76, no. 12S
Events
and Announcements
U.S. News 2006 Graduate
Rankings
Berkeley Engineering is again one of the top three ranked graduate schools
in the country. The College of Engineering placed third among the top
schools nationwide, following Stanford and MIT. Graduate programs by department
are ranked as follows: Civil and EE are first, CS and ME are second, Enviro
Eng is third, IEOR is fourth, MSE is sixth, NE is seventh, and BioE is
tenth. For more information, go to www.coe.berkeley.edu/newsroom/2006/rankings06.html.
Attention seniors
April 12 to April 14 from 11 a.m-2 p.m., the Senior Class Gift Committee
will be tabling on Bechtel Terrace with the ASUC Bookstore. This is
your chance to purchase your cap, gown, and graduation announcements...
and also make your senior class gift! Don"t miss your chance to pick
up a Berkeley Engineering license plate frame and enjoy some free snacks!
For more information, go to www.coe.berkeley.edu/seniorgift.
New CITRIS director
EECS and BioE professor S. Shankar Sastry has been named the new director
of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of
Society (CITRIS). The appointment is effective immediately. "CITRIS
has already done a fantastic job of addressing a wide number of societal-scale
challenges and systems, and I"d like to expand upon those successes,"
he said in a press release. Sastry"s three-year vision entails
greater use of information technology to promote better health care
delivery at a lower price, advancing multimedia search technologies,
and improving the security and trustworthiness of societal-scale systems.
He"s a Genius Corner winner!
The answer to last week"s brainteaser is: Mr. Brown had a black
tie, Mr. Black had a green tie, and Mr. Green had a brown tie. MSE grad
student Ari Kay got it right first. Stay tuned for
next week"s brainteaser.
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