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People in the news
 | For her work in engineering and on issues of gender and minority equity, ME professor Alice Agogino received the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence, which brings a $30,000 check to support her continued efforts in these areas. |
| The ASCE Engineering Mechanics Division awarded CEE professor Armen Der Kiureghian the 2006 Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal for his research in structural and system reliability, risk analysis, random vibrations and earthquake engineering. |  |
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A new book by EECS and cognitive science professor Jerome Feldman was published this summer by MIT Press. From Molecule to Metaphor summarizes two decades of work by the Neural Theory of Language group, housed at the International Computer Science Institute, on the neural basis of human language and thought. |
| Bioengineering senior Aram Kim won a 2006 Genentech Scholars Award based on her concept for an education program on diabetes, including disease prevention literature in multiple languages and financial assistance to free clinics. She is also a fellow of the SAGE Scholars Program, UC Berkeley's program that helps students from low-income backgrounds develop professional and leadership skills. |
| For his more than 50 years of teaching and research in geotechnical engineering on soil properties and behavior, CEE professor emeritus James Mitchell received the 2006 Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) Lifetime Achievement Award in Education from the American Society of Civil Engineers. |  |
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Sarah Nelson, Berkeley professor of BioE and UCSF professor of radiology, has been appointed scientific director of the UCSF component of QB3, the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research. QB3 is a cooperative effort among Berkeley, UCSF, UC Santa Cruz and private industry for the study of biological systems. Nelson joined the Berkeley faculty in 2002.
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| EECS professor Kris Pister received the second annual Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technology Innovation of the National Science Foundation’s Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, recognizing his development and commercialization of Smart Dust miniature wireless sensors. |  |
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Among the 2006 fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences are Dean A. Richard Newton and EECS professors David Patterson and Pravin Varaiya. Newton was tapped by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to chair its Panel on Entrepreneurship Curriculum in Higher Education. Patterson was also named to the National Academy of Sciences. |
| Eicke Weber, MSE professor since 1983, left the Berkeley faculty in July to return to his native Germany as director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Europe’s largest solar energy research institute. He is also chair of applied physics, solar energy, at the University of Freiburg. |  |
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