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Leaping lizards and dinosaurs inspire robot design

Leaping lizards inspire robot design with video

January 4, 2012:

Undergraduate and graduate students teamed up with biologist Robert Full to study how lizards use their tails when leaping. What they found can help design robots that are more stable on uneven terrain and after unexpected falls, which is critical to successful search and rescue operations.

Statement of intent to register 2011-12

June 30, 2011:

Historical data on acceptance of UC Berkeley admission offers by new freshmen and transfer students.

$1 million grant to steer undergraduates into research

November 10, 2010:

The Amgen Foundation has renewed a four-year, $1 million grant to UC Berkeley that to date has introduced 94 undergraduate students from a range of colleges and universities to laboratory research and steered more than three-quarters of them into graduate level research.

It’s all in the family at Berkeley

May 4, 2010:

Aaida and Tahoura Samad, identical-twin freshmen and scientists-in-the-making at Berkeley, will welcome a familiar face to campus in the fall: their mother. Bushra Samad is one of just 53 students accepted into Berkeley’s highly competitive graduate program in bioengineering — while raising her ambitious and accomplished daughters.

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