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May 11, 2007 Vol. 77, no. 13S
The
Year in Photos: FALL
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| RIBBON-CUTTING: Chancellor
Robert Birgeneau prepares to cut the ribbon at the opening of
Berkeley’s RAD Lab, which works on next-generation Internet
services. AARON WALBURG PHOTO |
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| IN MEMORIAM: On
January 2, at the age of 55, Dean A. Richard Newton passed
away only two months after being diagnosed
with pancreatic cancer. Newton was a visionary leader, dynamic
entrepreneur and educator with a passion for life and a desire
to make our world a better place. RACHEL
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| LETTERED: ME
students (right) watch as members of the UC Rally Committee prepare
to
repaint the “Big
C” yellow after Stanford was suspected of surreptitiously
painting it red. RACHEL SHAFER PHOTO |
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| TEAM
ECUADOR: BioE graduate students,
who worked on an interdisciplinary team researching the feasibility
of a lab-on-a-chip device to detect dengue fever in Ecuador, pose
in the field. PHOTO COURTESY OF TANNER
NEVILL |
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| LITTLE
BIG WIN: Tau Beta
Pi (TBP) members celebrate their win over Stanford in December’s “Little
Big Game.” Every year, on the morning of the Big Game, the
rival chapters come together for their own personal touch football
game and compete for the TBP champion axe. RACHEL
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| FREQUENT
FLIER: Mark
Meltzer (B.S.’72
EECS) began skydiving in 1968 as a freshman. “I started because
I wanted to ride in classic planes, but I came to totally love
freefall,” he says. PHOTO COURTESY
OF MARK MELTZER |
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| “WANNA
BUILD IT? WANNA RACE IT?” That
was the pitch that members of the Formula SAE competition team
gave to passersby during a fall recruiting drive.
The Formula SAE team designs, builds and races a small formula-style
racecar. RACHEL SHAFER PHOTO |
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| MAGNIFICENT
MILESTONE: Delicate sprays
of champagne and hearty cheers signaled completion of the CITRIS
Headquarters topping-out ceremony, which celebrated the moment
when the building’s highest structural element is swung into
place. RACHEL SHAFER PHOTO |
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| COOL
COMPOSTER: ME/EECS
major Tim Edgar demonstrates a worm composting bin, the latest
addition
to the Green Apartment he and three other undergraduates are
showcasing to help raise Berkeley’s environmental consciousness. RACHEL
SHAFER PHOTO |
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| ROCK
STARS: EECS student Andrea Frome
fronts Lady X and the Positive Eigenvalues, a sometime, somehow
rock band powered by EECS professors, graduate students and post-docs. PHOTO
PROVIDED BY THE BAND |
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