Enrollment in the Summer Sessions 2012 is projected to exceed 16,000 — making it another record-breaking season for the program, which offers more than 600 courses. UC Berkeley students make up 75 percent of the campus’s summer scholars.
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Floating robots use GPS-enabled smartphones to track water flow 
May 9, 2012: A fleet of 100 floating robots took a trip down the Sacramento River on May 9, in a field test organized by UC Berkeley engineers. The devices, equipped with GPS-enabled smartphones, demonstrated the next generation of water-monitoring technology, promising to transform the way government agencies track one of the state’s most precious resources.
Media Advisory: Google’s Eric Schmidt to speak at commencement this Saturday
May 8, 2012:
The University of California, Berkeley’s Commencement Convocation 2012, an annual event honoring all graduating seniors. More than 3,000 graduates in caps and gowns are expected to process across the stage at Edwards Track Stadium to “Pomp and Circumstance.” The sold-out ceremony will include speeches, awards, and students, faculty and campus administrators in colorful regalia.
Steelhead trout lose out when water is low in wine country
May 7, 2012: The competition between farmers and fish for precious water in California is intensifying in wine country, suggests a new study by UC Berkeley biologists. The study links higher death rates for threatened juvenile steelhead trout with low water levels in the summer and the acreage of vineyards upstream.
Media Advisory: Engineers to toss 100 sensors downriver in Delta field test
May 4, 2012:
UC Berkeley engineers will conduct their inaugural field test of the Floating Sensor Network project on Wednesday, May 9, in Walnut Grove, Calif. They developed floating sensors that can be rapidly deployed in response to emergencies such as levee breaches or oil spills. The fleet includes robotic sensors that can swim around obstacles to target areas of interest and transmit live data to researchers using GPS receivers and mobile phone technology.
UC Berkeley’s first online degree program wraps up inaugural semester, addresses health worker shortage
May 3, 2012: This week, students from San Francisco to Alaska will have completed the inaugural semester of the On-Campus/Online Masters in Public Health Degree Program, the first ever online degree offered by UC Berkeley. The pioneering program was designed to expand access to quality education and to help address a nationwide shortage of health care professionals.
Scientists core into Clear Lake to explore past climate change 

May 3, 2012: One of the oldest lakes in the world, Clear Lake has deep sediments that contain a record of the climate and local plants and animals going back perhaps 500,000 years. UC Berkeley scientists are drilling cores from the sediments to explore this history and fine-tune models for predicting the fate of today’s flora and fauna in the face of global warming and pressure from a growing human population.
Four UC Berkeley scientists elected to National Academy of Sciences
May 1, 2012: Four University of California, Berkeley, faculty members – physicists John Clarke and Bernard Sadoulet, chemist John Hartwig and ecologist Mary Power – have been elected members or foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, bringing UC Berkeley’s total NAS membership to 141.
Media Advisory: Therapy dogs to give “fur fix” to students facing finals
April 26, 2012:
As UC Berkeley students study for final exams, pet therapy dogs from Tony La Russa’s Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF) will visit campus to relieve students’ stress.
UC Berkeley class prepares disabled students for competitive job market 
April 23, 2012: If it’s a tough job market out there for able-bodied college graduates, imagine how employment prospects might look to students with cerebral palsy or a muscular or neurodegenerative disease. That’s why a dozen UC Berkeley students are enrolled in “Professional Development and Disability,” a unique course that is teaching them how to market their disabilities as strengths.
UC Berkeley passes management of Allen Telescope Array to SRI
April 13, 2012: After operating the Hat Creek Radio Observatory for more than 50 years, and most recently partnering with the SETI Institute to build the Allen Telescope Array, UC Berkeley is handing over management to SRI International, which will operate the observatory for the U.S. Air Force. The telescope will track space debris and continue to search for signs of intelligent civilizations.
Fertilizer use responsible for increase in nitrous oxide in atmosphere
April 2, 2012: UC Berkeley chemists have analyzed the isotopic composition of nitrous oxide – a greenhouse gas – in air samples from as far back as 1940 and found the fingerprint of nitrogen-based fertilizer, proving definitively that the 20 percent increase in atmospheric nitrogen since the Industrial Revolution is largely due to the Green Revolution.
New material cuts energy costs of separating gas for plastics and fuels
March 29, 2012: In producing hydrocarbons for the chemical industry, refiners must first crack oil at high temperatures and then cool the mixture to liquefy the gases for separation. This energy-intensive chilling step could be eliminated thanks to a new material that can do the gas separation at high temperature.
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