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October 13, 2006 Vol. 77, no.
9F
Events
and Announcements Technology Breakthrough Competition
Are you working on research that aims to make the world a substantially
better place? Is it something that may have commercial potential?
If so, enter the UC Berkeley Technology Breakthrough Competition.
Winners receive $25,000 in cash prizes and a chance to make industry
connections. The deadline to apply is October 20. Go to http://cet.berkeley.edu/breakthrough.htm for more information on contest rules and how to apply.
TBP Career Fair
It’s coming! More than 25 companies (Boston Scientific, Citigroup,
Ford Motor, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Oracle Corp. and Alexza Pharmaceuticals,
just to name a few) will be at the Tau Beta Pi Science and Engineering
Career Fair to answer any questions and take resumes. The fair will
take place on Tuesday, October 17, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., in Pauley
Ballroom, MLK Student Union. So come, explore and be sure to bring
your resumes! There will be raffle prizes!
He’s a genius!
The answer to last week’s brainteaser is $325 per delivery.
ME graduate student Nicola Fung, ME seniors Matt Darrow and Daniel
Ramey, ME junior Timothy Black, Engineering Undeclared sophomore
Jae Won Do and CEE graduate student Joel Dickerson all got it right.
But ME junior Josh Bishop-Moser sent the correct answer first. Congrats
Josh! Thanks everyone for submitting an answer. Stay tuned for next
week’s brainteaser.
Global warming discussion
On Wednesday, October 18, the Applied Science and Technology Fall
2006 Colloquium presents “Global Warming vs. Nature’s
Cycle and Sorting the Two Out,” by Physics professor Richard
Muller. The lecture will take place from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center. Don’t miss
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