CITRIS Headquarters

The new CITRIS Headquarters, a 145,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility, will be a center for students and faculty who will make the technological breakthroughs needed to solve society's greatest challenges.

Live and interactive views overlooking the construction site of the new Davis Hall North building, and future headquarters for CITRIS are available at:

Ken Goldberg's Co-Option Camera on Cory Hall.

Dan Garcia's Time-Lapse experience of the construction site.


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Engineering News - A weekly newsletter with current College news and events for students, faculty, and staff.

Forefront - A magazine, published two times a year, that takes you into the labs, classrooms, and lives of professors, students, and alumni for an intimate look at the innovative research, teaching, and campus life that defines the College.

Lab Notes - A monthly on-line research digest designed to illuminate groundbreaking research underway at the College of Engineering.

Matrix (archived issues) - An alumni newsletter that merged with Forefront in 2001.

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PEER receives $3.6 Million NSF NEES Grand Challenge Grant
The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) has been awarded a five-year, $3.6 million NEES Grand Challenge grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the collapse potential of older nonductile concrete buildings during earthquakes. The project will fully utilize the George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES).

Berkeley: Rules approved for nanomaterials
The Berkeley City Council has unanimously approved new rules requiring handlers of nanomaterials to make annual disclosures to the city's toxics manager.

With rich past, lab sets bold course
This year, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the birth of the first national lab in a small wooden building on the UC Berkeley campus where a visionary young man built the first circular particle accelerator.

Nike+ IPod = Surveillance
If you enhance your workout with the new Nike+ iPod Sport Kit, you may be making yourself a surveillance target.

Berkeley Lab's nanotechnology lectures open to all high school students
High school students are invited to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the fall and spring semesters of "Nano High" -- a series of Saturday lectures by UC Berkeley professors and lab scientists on the future of nanotechnology.

Nanotubes grown from seed
Growing carbon nanotubes with well-defined widths and wall structures has been a long-standing challenge. The solution may involve seeding new tubes with pieces of existing ones.

Engineers demonstrate strength of new metal shear wall
Engineers pushed a newly designed, metal shear wall to its limits at a November 20 seismic test at UC Berkeley's Structural Engineering Research Lab. The panel proved strong enough for use in California and other earthquake-prone regions throughout the world, researchers said.

Better Metal Wall System Coming for Seismic Zones
The goal of a two-year research effort is to come up with “a very simple way” to provide lateral bracing for a conventional metal-stud wall, says Steven Tipping, president of Tipping Mar + Associates, Berkeley, Calif. Tipping is the champion of the $172,000 effort, funded by the Pankow Foundation, to develop and load-test the approach.

Berkeley: New steel wall promises cheaper, stronger quake-proof construction
Engineers from UC Berkeley and the construction industry unveiled a prototype Monday of a new kind of steel wall they say is three times stronger than wood-framed walls and has the potential to dramatically lower the cost of earthquake-resistant, multi-unit housing.

Cheaper Anti-Malaria Drug Getting Closer
Researchers at U.C. Berkeley are one step closer to making a malaria drug available to people around the globe. As Dr. Dean Edell reports, scientists have made a major breakthrough by identifying a crucial gene.

Berkeley considering need for nano safety
Berkeley is proposing what a city official says would be the world's first local regulation of nanomaterials -- engineered particles and fibers so vanishingly small and super-efficient that they promise to revolutionize industry but pose possible health risks to people if inhaled or exposed to skin....

Landfill standards strengthened
The decision to increase safety requirements followed concerns raised several weeks ago by Robert Bea, an engineering professor at University of California, Berkeley, who warned that the waste's additional weight could weaken the levee and cause it to fail during another hurricane.

Berkeley Lab's nanotechnology lectures open to all high school students
High school students are invited to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the fall and spring semesters of "Nano High" -- a series of Saturday lectures by UC Berkeley professors and lab scientists on the future of nanotechnology.

Jay Keasling honored as Scientist of the Year
Discover magazine has named Jay D. Keasling, professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley, its 2006 Scientist of the Year for his ambitious efforts to "rebuild life itself."

A cookstove for Darfur
Scientists have designed a cookstove that could make life a little easier for refugees in the Darfur area of Sudan. It might also help reduce the loss of forests in poor countries where trees are cut down as fuel for cooking fires. The scientists are from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley.

A cookstove for Darfur
Scientists have designed a cookstove that could make life a little easier for refugees in the Darfur area of Sudan. It might also help reduce the loss of forests in poor countries where trees are cut down as fuel for cooking fires. The scientists are from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley.

Engineer says landfill could compromise nearby levee
Robert Bea, an engineering professor at the University of California at Berkeley, said there is a 1 in 3 chance that the landfill, once complete, could cause serious impairment to the levee.

New levee in Yuba gives river more room
"The concept is to give the water the room it is due," said Robert Bea, an engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who was part of an independent team that studied levee failures in New Orleans.

McCain's farm flip
McCain has argued that government support for ethanol actually raises gasoline prices. He has claimed ethanol does nothing to make the U.S. more energy independent. He has even questioned the science behind making fuel from corn - contending that ethanol provides less energy than the fossil fuels consumed to produce it.

A money gap and a brain drain
As voters consider Proposition 1D — the $10.4-billion bond measure to benefit California's schools, colleges and universities — some say UC Berkeley offers a cautionary tale about what happens when the state fails to invest enough money to keep its very foundation healthy, let alone accommodate growth....

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