IB Undergrads Selected as Bergeron Scholars
Submitted by khansen on Mon, 06/11/2012 - 21:00IB undergraduates Muska Fazilat and Sarah Tulga have been selected as two of the first five Berkeley Bergeron scholars.
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IB undergraduates Muska Fazilat and Sarah Tulga have been selected as two of the first five Berkeley Bergeron scholars.
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Berkeley NewsCenter has an article about research just published in PLoS by Professor Robert Full. The article describes a pendulum-like motion used by cockroaches and geckos to escape from predators, and a six-legged robot called DASH (Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod) that was created to reproduce the behavior.
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Professor Anthony Barnosky has published a paper in Nature presenting evidence that the Earth may be approaching a global tipping point.
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Professor Emeritus Marian Diamond has been awarded the 2012 Clark Kerr Award for her contribution to the advancement of higher education.
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Assistant Professor Cynthia Looy is featured in a UC Berkeley News Center profile about core drilling of Clear Lake to explore past climate change.
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Professor Mary Power has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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IB Undergraduate Huong Tran is a 2012 recipient of the Chancellor's Award for Public Service in the Civic Engagement category for her work supporting dental and oral hygiene work with low-income communities.
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Assistant Professor Paul Fine has published a paper on a "novel analytical framework to jointly evaluate historical and contemporary environmental predictors of the latitudinal gradient in the diversity of terrestrial vertebrates."
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Berkeley NewsCenter article: From Teaching Laboratory to Research Article in Nature: Leaping lizards and dinosaurs inspire robot design.
Leslea Hlusko and Robert Full have been named 2011 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. See the Berkeley News Center article.