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Professor Steven Glaser was recently named a TÜV SÜD Guest Professor and Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, at the Technical University of Munich, one of the premier universities in Germany. Glaser is leading a student workshop, “From Earthquakes to Acoustic Emissions: Non-destructive Testing in Engineering,” to take place in Munich from July 19 to 24.

CITRIS was recently awarded a $2.3 million U.S. Department of Energy American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) contract to develop a Distributed Intelligent Automated Demand Response (DIADR) management system for buildings. The purpose of the research is to achieve 30% peak demand reduction while still maintaining the building as a healthy, productive, and comfortable environment for the building occupants.

John P. Holdren, speaking at the UC Berkeley Energy and Resources Group – The 17th Annual Lecture on Energy and the Environment, presented "Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being." John Holdren is Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President of the United States, Assistant to the President of Science and Technology.

Sutardja Dai Hall, the headquarters building for CITRIS at UC Berkeley, has only been open for one year and has already won several awards.  

UC’s Berkeley Center for New Media announces the recipients of the 2010 Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Research Grants. The grantees are a diverse group of graduate students whose research range from public health to videogames.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has named Daniel
Kammen of the University of California, Berkeley, a Senior Energy
and Climate
Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) Fellow to advise our neighbors in the
Western
Hemisphere on clean energy issues as of April 15.

The Banatao Institute and the Building Sustainability at Cal Program have teamed up to implement UC Berkeley’s first building-wide composting program, which launched on April 6, 2010.

CITRIS researcher Eric Brewer,
professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the
University of California, Berkeley, is the 2009 recipient of the
ACM-Infosys
Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences, a prestigious honor that
comes with
a $150,000 prize.

Opinion Space is a visualization tool for world opinion developed by an
interdisciplinary team of students and faculty at the UC Berkeley Center
for New Media in collaboration with new media experts at the U.S.
Department of State.

Dr. Aravind from Aravind Eye Hospitals was interviewed recently and
discussed TIER's role in setting up the vision centers. The largest and
the most productive eye care facility in the world, it sees over 1.4
million patients and performs over 200,000 sight restoring surgeries
each year. Two-thirds of its services, are free.

CITRIS, the i4Energy Center, and the Climate Energy Policy Institute (CEPI) are featured in current article in the UC Berkeley News.