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Volume XXI, Number 1 Editor Lisa Harrington Senior Writer Dick Cortén Art Director Andrea Sohn Photography Lisa Harrington, Peg Skorpinski, Dick Cortén, Andrea Sohn, Arnold Yip n
The Graduate magazine is published by the Graduate Division at UC Berkeley Andrew J. Szeri, Dean Joseph J. Duggan, Associate Dean Carlos A. Fernandez-Pello, Associate Dean
SPRING 2009
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London Calling Berkeley architect Claire Weldin goes underground in the U.K. By Lisa Harrington Above the Napa Valley George Rubissow finds a mountain for Cabernet By Lisa Harrington
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Between Africa, Asia, and the European Union My work in international public health By Dominique Kerouedan
10 Fire in Space
3 Harry Potter catches the magical Hogwarts Express on Platform 9¾ at King’s Cross Railway, neighbor to the King’s Cross Tube, where Claire Weldin is a wizard at redevelopment.
Women in engineering help NASA prevent disasters By Nancy Bronstein
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Physicist-author Richard Muller always looks for new mysteries to solve By Dick Cortén
Susan J. Muller, Associate Dean
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Dominique Kerouedan with her husband and son in Africa
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Grad Students and Alumni in the Spotlight Have you noticed that we feature students and alumni on the Graduate Division homepage www.grad.berkeley.edu? Labeled “Grad Spotlight” and “In Their Own Words” (depending), their headlines alternate graphically when you open the website, linking to individual stories. There’s also an archive of spotlights, covering a wide range of fields, and new stories appear throughout the year. The current ones in rotation, each worth a look, are: The Power of Berkeley: a Fulbright Scholar’s career is shaped by the intellectual community he found on campus — Richard Halkett, MPP, Goldman School of Public Policy
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How to Save a Life: the Darfur Stove Project — Ashok Gadgil, Ph.D., Physics and Christina Galitsky, M.S., Chemical Engineering In the Center of the World: among presidents and scholars and all walks of life — Edouard Servan-Schreiber, Ph.D., Computer Science
16 Physicist Rich Muller reassures his students that “the electricity’s going through my body to the ground, then back to the apparatus, and no, I’m not killed.”
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