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Robert
C. Dynes, former Chancellor of UC San Diego, was named the 18th president
of the University of California system, effective October 2. A first-generation
college graduate, he is a distinguished physicist and will hold an appointment
in the physics department at Cal.
For information about his priorities, see http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/webchats/.
Dynes replaces Richard C. Atkinson, who retired after leading UC for eight
years of both recession and prosperity. Also retiring is Provost and Vice
President for Academic Affairs C. Judson King. Closer to home,
Robert M. Berdahl will be stepping down as Chancellor at the end of June;
following a sabbatical, he will return to Berkeley to teach and pursue
his scholarly work in history.
New
manager for national labs
Acting on the recommendation of UC President Dynes, the UC Board of Regents
appointed retired Admiral S. Robert Foley as vice president for
laboratory management. A longtime naval commander and consultant on defense
and energy issues, Foley will have primary responsibility for the universitys
management of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
Smallest
motor created
Pysicists at Berkeley have produced the first nano-scale motora gold
rotor on a nanotube shaft tiny enough to be harnessed to a virus. Its
the smallest synthetic motor thats ever been made, said physics professor
Alex Zettl. Nature is still a little bit ahead of usthere are biological
motors that are equal or slightly smaller in sizebut we are catching
up. The electrostatic motors are an important step in showing that nanotubes
and other nanostructures, many of which are under investigation by college
researchers, can be manipulated and assembled into functional devices.
Mark
Twain in the 21st century
Berkeleys Mark Twain Project is keeping Twain current by publishing his
letters online. The project, housed in the Mark Twain Papers of The Bancroft
Library, is making five volumes of Twains letters from 1876-1880 available
electronically in a page- by-page format via Palo Alto-based ebrary,
and as downloadable e-books through the University of California Press.
Viewers can look at Mark Twains Letters, 1876-1880: An Electronic Edition
through ebrarys website http://shop.ebrary.com/.
Builders
of Berkeley
Private donors have been critical to the success of the University of
California since its founding in 1868. Some of these individuals are recognized
on such campus landmarks as Sather Gate, Hearst Gymnasium, Doe Memorial
Library, and more recently the Haas School of Business. Hundreds of other
individuals and corporations, while less known, have also contributed
significantly to the excellence of Berkeley. On September 25, the University
dedicated a new campus monument a granite panel on the terrace of the
Doe Libraryhonoring some of the Universitys most generous benefactors
over the past 135 years. Names will be added on a facing panel as leadership
gifts are contributed in the years to come.
Testbed
for cyber war games
Usually Cal and USC meet on the athletic field, but in a new partnership,
researchers at the two universities will collaborate on an NSF-funded
project called the Cyber Defense Technology Experimental Research network,
or DETER. The project is designed to establish a cybersecurity testbed
that models the complexities of the Internet.
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