A nurse leader, educator and scientist and a nationally-recognized expert in gerontological nursing and rural health care, Heather M. Young was appointed Associate Vice Chancellor for Nursing at UC Davis Health System in 2008. She also serves as the founding Dean of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis.
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.
As part of the UC Berkeley Cal Day activities, Professor Greg Niemeyer will present a talk: “Community Science: Approaching the Climate Change Issue One Hearth at a Time”
The Solar Forecasting Laboratory at the University of California Merced has collected over 15 months of high quality horizontal and direct normal irradiance measurements at different wavelengths (UV, IR and visible) with the primary objective of developing, calibrating and benchmarking novel and more accurate forecasting models for solar irradiance at the ground level. Without effective forecasting methodologies, neither solar nor wind power plants cannot be effectively connected to the power grid, which presents a major obstacle for high-penetration utilization of intermittent sources.
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.
Are we investing too little in information security? Are we investing too much? Since Anderson and Varian posed these questions in 2002, much progress has been made in understanding rational decision-making in information security.
California ISO operates much of the California power grid. The ISO works with federal regulators, State agencies and market participants to conduct grid planning, improve system operations, and adapt wholesale markets for energy and ancillary services in anticipation of achieving a 20% renewable portfolio standard (by about 2013) and then a 33% renewable portfolio standard by 2020.
Knowledge is power. Knowing of the quantities of specific molecules present in a biological system is fundamental to understanding systems level operation. This understanding is critical for translating basic knowledge of specific molecules into applied medical, agriculture, forensic, and drug development assays, and has created a need for methods that more accurately quantify an ever-increasing number of newly identified analytes with greater precision.
We are pleased to announce that the seed funding awards for CITRIS have been chosen. The projects this year are from all four CITRIS campuses: 4 from UC Davis (25% of submitted), 4 from UC Santa Cruz (27% of submitted), 7 from UC Merced (64% of submitted), and 12 from UC Berkeley (33% of submitted). Thank you to all who submitted innovative proposals. We look forward to the discoveries and developments that will arise as a result of this round of funding.
