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New digs for IEEE
FAB LAB: EECS sophomore Priyanka Reddy (left) and EECS junior Linda Sha man the desk at the new IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Student Lab, which opened the second week of the semester. The room, which replaced the old IEEE lab in 204A Cory, features new workstations, a lab bench for projects, furniture, carpet and paint, plus an expanded research library. Drop by 246 Cory!
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With his forms filled out and cheek swab complete, ME
Ph.D. student Peter Yang registered to become a bone marrow donor during
a campus registration drive held on February 28 and March 1. About
220 people, many of them engineers, registered, making it the most
successful marrow drive in recent campus memory.
While marrow drives come here once a year or so, the recent drive featured
for the first time a north side location at Bechtel Engineering Center, thanks
to the efforts of College student affairs officer Eugenia Guruwaya-Foon. Guruwaya-Foon
knows many engineers are Asian or Asian American, ethnicities that are sorely
underrepresented in the national bone marrow donor registry. And that worries
her. [FULL STORY]
On March 2, construction workers placed a steel beam
at the highest point on the CITRIS (Center for Information Technology
Research in the Interest of
Society) building, reaching a construction milestone. More than 50 College faculty,
staff, donors, CITRIS and construction personnel marked the occasion with a “topping-out” ceremony,
which celebrates the moment when the highest structural element of a building
is swung into place. The ritual traces back to the age of Egyptian pyramid-building. [FULL STORY]
Paposo, a village located on the coast of Chile north of
the capital Santiago, hugs the edge of the Atacama Desert, the driest
desert on earth. In some inland spots, it has never rained (at least since
humans started measuring rainfall there). Coastal Paposo averages less
than half an inch of rain per year. Some years, it doesn’t rain
at all.
Lately, a group of CEE seniors has been thinking a lot about this place. They’ve
never been there, but they’re determined to help solve its major problem:
no reliable, low-cost water system. [FULL STORY]
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