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New (and familiar) faces on northside
MEET YOUR MASCOT:
EECS freshman Jordan Fidler posed with Oski during the College’s
new student orientation on August 23. The new class is slightly
smaller than last year’s, with 594 freshmen and 172
junior transfers from nine countries and 22 states. Here
are more class facts: Admit rate for freshmen: 22%;
admit rate for junior transfers: 23%; average freshman SAT
I score: 2070; average freshman Math II score: 750; average
weighted freshman GPA: 4.33; average junior transfer GPA:
3.72; new students who are women: 22.2%.RACHEL
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Cal’s two CEE teams did well in competitions over the summer. The Concrete Canoe team took fourth overall in the American Society of Civil Engineers National Concrete Canoe Competition held in June at Oklahoma State University. It was the team’s twelfth top-five finish in the last 15 years of competing at the national level.
“I’m really excited about finishing fourth place,” says CEE senior and last year’s project manager Ben Huie. “Of course, I wanted to do better than last year’s team [which also took also fourth place]. But we did well this year in the races. Our paddling captain, Joseph Liu, is also on the dragon boat team and he helped us be stronger in our paddling.” Liu is a senior in CEE. [FULL STORY]
BioE Ph.D. student Craig Hashi understands the heart of the matter: Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in the United States, according to the American Heart Association. To treat serious cases of it, Hashi explains, surgeons graft a blood vessel around the blocked one, allowing the blood to flow freely again via the new path. In the United States, more than half a million coronary bypass surgeries are performed each year.
However, the procedure isn’t without problems. In many cases, surgeons use a replacement vein or artery harvested from another part of the body. But — especially in patients needing multiple grafts — there is a limited availability of such vessels and a 40 percent or more failure rate within 10 years. [FULL STORY]
As an entrepreneur turned investor, Jon Burgstone has an eye for possibilities. If there’s a market for it, he can make it happen. Three and a half years ago, he recognized a possibility right here in the College. He was teaching a Leadership and Organizations class in the IEOR department when undergraduate students approached him, asking about engineering entrepreneurship. Was there a class for engineers, they wanted to know. There wasn’t, but Burgstone recognized a possibility when he saw one. Not only should there be one, he thought, there should be a whole entrepreneurship program. A startup center within the traditional engineering curriculum.
That kind of thinking is nothing new to Burgstone. Earlier in his career, he co-founded Supplier Market, a leading Internet supply chain software provider, and sold it for more than $1 billion. “It was successful in large part because I had professors at Harvard who took an interest in it and helped me along the way,” he says. “I wanted to give back, and Berkeley offered the biggest opportunity for that.” [FULL STORY]
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