UC Davis physicians, nurses and administrative leaders gathered Friday, Jan. 15, to mark the official groundbreaking for the new California Telehealth Resource Center on the grounds of the university’s Sacramento campus. The four-story, $36 million building is designed to enhance and complement UC Davis’ expertise in the field of telehealth, which is the use of high-speed telecommunications for medical services. Read the full article.
On January 13, Art Rosenfeld stepped down from the California Energy Commission on which he has served for 10 years. Three articles linked below provide a glimpse of his career and significant contributions to energy efficiency. Articles: LA Times, BoingBoing, Mercury News
– CITRIS Director Paul Wright delivers a message for the New Year –
CITRIS is a symbol of everything wonderful that the UC system offers
the world in terms of education, research, and service. Several hundred
graduate and undergraduate students on four campuses are funded by the
national and international extra-mural grants that are brought into the
UC system because of CITRIS. Our work covers energy, water, healthcare,
and infrastructures and, by being multi-disciplinary, our students come
from all walks of life.
Yahoo!’s cluster is part of the Open Cirrus’ Testbed created by HP, Intel, and Yahoo! (see press release at http://research.yahoo.com/node/2328). The availability of the Yahoo! cluster was first announced in November 2007 (see press release at http://research.yahoo.com/node/1879).
NX is the commercial CAD/CAM/CAE PLM software suite developed by
Siemens PLM Software. NX is widely used in the engineering industry,
especially
in the automotive and aerospace sectors.[http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/products/nx/index.shtml]
The 2010 Mohr Davidow Ventures Innovators Award Winners have been announced. Mohr Davidow Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm investing in pioneering science, has announced that among its winners are Ali Javey from UC Berkeley and Delia Milliron from LBNL
Professor David Dornfeld, Director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability, was recently interviewed by BBC Radio 5 live about the role of manufacturing regarding climate issues. Listen to radio interview.
A multidisciplinary group from UC Berkeley have been awarded a
$1,573,550 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to tackle
new challenges confronting astronomers who study the dynamic and
variable sky.
One of the world's largest crude oil and gas suppliers, Statoil, has
teamed up with UC Berkeley’s Project Production Systems Laboratory
(P2SL) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) to
establish a Mega-projects Research Initiative.
Congressman Mike Honda recently toured the new CITRIS Headquarters building. During his visit Director Paul Wright provided a personal tour of the new CITRIS Museum.
