Brand New Campus, Big New Opportunities

…that United Technologies Research Fellow Mike Sahm believes better reflects the reality of how teams are formed in research and business environments. “This is how we work in research and…

CITRIS October 2006 Newsletter

…as they are being developed. This newsletter examines two such areas of research. Our first feature looks at how researchers at the Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST)…

Alex Zettl

…James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials (2006), Miller Professorship (2007) Research Interests My research interests are in experimental condensed matter physics. We synthesize and characterize novel materials with unusual…

Telemicroscopy for Disease Diagnosis (CellScope)

…reach of high-quality care into the most remote areas.  The project was Seed Funded by CITRIS.      Researchers, who began international field testing in the DR Congo during summer 2008,…

Computing in a Post-Silicon World

…housing research equipment to enabling researchers to manufacture and try out new materials and approaches. For more information: International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors Berkeley Quantum Information & Computation Center Giant…

Open Source Robotics, Feb 1

…of 30 years ago, the personal robotics industry will take off and become an economic engine. But robotics is a complex, multidisciplinary field, and fielding successful applications requires expertise ranging…

Frugal Science and Global Health, May 1

…into serious consideration. As physicists, we like to make stuff. We use these skills (and field work) to design solutions for extremely resource constrained settings, specially in the field of…

Why Some Earthquakes are More Destructive than Others

field. The researchers used records of repeating earthquakes along the San Andreas fault that Nadeau developed and maintained. The data were from Parkfield, Calif., an area which has experienced a…