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Dean's Digest
August 2002
Friends of the College of Engineering,
Chancellor
Robert Berdahl has called the Hearst Memorial Mining Building
"the architectural gem of the entire UC system."
The building reopens on Sunday, September 22.
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We are now well
into the Summer session and most of my colleagues and their students
are hard at work completing experiments, writing papers, and concentrating
on various other aspects of their research programs.
Looking forward to September, I hope you will all mark Sunday,
September 22nd on your calendar for the gala
reopening of the renovated Hearst Memorial Mining Building.
It will be a fun afternoon and the new building is a must-see, particularly
for alumni who will be amazed at the changes.
From the
perspective of the College, this past academic year was marked
by major successes on the part of our faculty and students, but
was also a difficult one in many ways and next year looks like it
will be even tougher. With a slumping economy and with California's
current financial difficulties, we are preparing for the possibility
of even further cuts to our already bare-bones state-funded operating
budget.
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However, in the
face of these challenges, I am very pleased to report that our
alumni and friends stood by us — in fact, during the 2002-2003
academic year, we had 35% more donors to the Berkeley Engineering
Annual Fund than the previous year.
These critical Annual Fund dollars are used to recruit the very
best faculty to the College through startup packages, to fund key
student programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels,
and are used as institutional matching contributions to win federal
and state financial support for research—often leveraged as
much as ten-to-one.
Thank you again for your support of the College of Engineering at
Berkeley,
/rich
A. Richard Newton
Dean, College of Engineering and
the Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering
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