School and College News
 Business: Fuji Xerox Company has pledged $1 million to the
Haas School of Business to establish a Fuji Xerox Distinguished Professorship
of Knowledge-the nation's first professorship dedicated to the study of
knowledge and its impact on business. Ikujiro Nonaka, MBA '68, Ph.D. '72,
is the first to hold the chair. A professor at Hitotsubashi University in
Japan, he is co-author of The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies
Create the Dynamics of Innovation.
Chemistry: The
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists finally approved the naming
of element 106, Seaborgium, in honor of Chemistry Nobelist Glenn Seaborg.
Kenneth S. Raymond was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, joining
20 College faculty colleagues.
Education: In conjunction
with the UC Office of the President, UC Berkeley and the Graduate School
of Education convened a Regional Conference on Education Collaboration and
Excellence Oct. 3-4 on the Berkeley campus. It built on the national conference
held in October 1996 by providing an opportunity for leaders in education,
business, government, philanthropy, and community organizations to develop
regional strategies for effective preK-12 collaboration.
Engineering: Armed with oars and moxie, Cal engineering students
captured an overall third place at the National Concrete Canoe Competition
this past June in Cleveland, Ohio. Local TV stations rolled tape as the
men finished first and the women placed second in the 200-meter races. The
15-member team returned home with $1,500 in scholarship money for the Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Information Management and
Systems has received a $400,000 grant from an anonymous donor
to support development of Web pages for undergraduate classes at Berkeley.
n Journalism Tom Brokaw, anchor and managing editor of NBC News, visited
to kick off the second year of the Herb Caen/San Francisco Chronicle Lecture
series Oct. 6 in conversation with Dean Orville Schell. Other distinguished
visitors teaching at the school this year include Pulitizer Prize-winning
reporter Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague; former St. Louis Post-Dispatch
editor Bill Woo; and Terry Gross, creator and host of the National Public
Radio show, 'Fresh Air.'
Environmental Design: Internationally
renowned landscape architect Peter Walker, '55, has been appointed chair
of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning.
The Department of City and Regional Planning is celebrating its 50th anniversary
this year with a series of events culminating in a Jubilee Celebration and
Ball May 8-9. For more information, visit the department's web site: http://www-dcrp.ced.berkeley.edu/alumni/
Law:
The San Francisco law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP
has donated $200,000 to Boalt's new Center for Clinical Education. The Center
integrates the study of law with practical experience. Students will work
on real cases under the Center's director, staff attorneys, and Brobeck
attorneys.
Letters and Science
launched the Robert and Colleen Haas Scholars Program this fall, which creates
opportunities for outstanding, low-income undergraduates to explore research
interests and develop research skills through one-on-one relationships with
faculty mentors. Eligible students in their junior year from any school
or college may apply.
Natural Resources: The College has hired 23 new faculty members since
1993, for a total count of 105, and will be recruiting 15 more faculty over
the next few years. By the year 2001, more than a third of the college's
faculty will have been hired over this seven-year period.
Optometry: 1998 marks the 75th anniversary of the School of
Optometry with a full schedule of celebratory events, including an international
eye care symposium and gala banquet on June 13-14, 1998. The Eye Center
is providing care for 5,000 Native Americans in the Lake County Tribal Consortium
following agreements reached in May.
Public Health:
As part of its ongoing effort to attract and retain the brightest students
from a broad array of backgrounds, the School of Public Health has awarded
a record $1.2 million in support this fall to 120 new and continuing students
who have dedicated themselves to promoting and protecting the health of
the human population.
Public Policy has
temporarily departed from its ancestral home at 2607 Hearst Ave., hoping
to return next year to a slightly larger but seismically sound Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy.
The school's interim location is venerable Wheeler Hall, which the founding
dean rejected as the original home for the school 30 years ago.
Social Welfare: To help Bay Area social service departments adapt
to the implications of welfare reform, the School has established the Bay
Area Training Academy for Professional Career Development. Its main emphasis
will be to improve county child welfare and social services through staff
development for supervision, team-building, and change management.
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