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Six-plus par and watch the pedestrians
DISCMEN: ME students pose for the camera on March 7 after finishing their first “hole” of disc golf, a large oak tree in front of Wurster Hall. From left, the players are junior Nick Galano, junior Nate Tom, junior Chris Zhao and sophomore Albert Cheng. The casual evening game was a Pi Tau Sigma (ME honor society) social event led by Tom. Lack of an official campus course didn’t stop Tom from improvising as he went along, making the game a rollicking stroll through campus. RACHEL
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Amidst a jumble of construction equipment, art blossomed.
Or, more accurately, emitted light.
Outside Hearst Memorial Mining Building on February 15, a large LED screen
displayed Visiting Industrial Fellow Steve Beck’s latest video art project
during the Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium. Passersby and conference
attendees watched as colorful geometric patterns appeared on the screen. Sometimes
the images started from a single point and radiated jagged angles or smooth
arcs. Sometimes they spun inward, only to fade. [FULL STORY]
Need funding?
The Big Ideas @ Berkeley program, in conjunction with the ASUC student government,
is again offering its Bears Breaking Bound-aries contest, with $138,000 up
for grabs this year. The competition sponsors creative, high-impact student
research and ideas in 10 different categories, including bio-inspired innovation,
global poverty reduction, synthetic biology and improving student life, to
name a few. There’s also an “open” category for additional
proposals. [FULL STORY]
As a freshman, BioE major Charles Yong wanted to create
a TV sitcom series about student life at Cal. “Berkeley is full
of material,” Yong, now a senior, explains. “Regardless of
age or major, we all have these common experiences, such as waiting
for elevators, eating in the D.C. (dining commons), late nights, finals
week.
I drew up storyboards [visual sketches of a plot] based on things I’d
seen or friends’ experiences. Of course, I didn’t know how
much time engineering would take. ” [FULL STORY]
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