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MECH Alumna Morgane Oger, BC?s first transgender woman to be nominated by major party
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/12/2 7:14)
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CBC featured Morgane Oger, a UBC alumna who became be the first transgender person to be nominated by a major Canadian political party as a candidate at any level of government.
Oger, who studied graduated from Mechanical Engineering at UBC in ’93, is a member of the Vancouver Board of Education?s Pride Committee and is chair of the Trans Alliance Society.
The story also appeared on Yahoo and similar stories appeared in the Vancouver Courier and Vancouver Sun.
To read the full CBC story, please visit: CBC .
Original story from APSC News .
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Walter Mérida discusses how high-tech data could speed transit buses, save fuel and time
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/11/17 4:29)
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Walter Merida, Director of the UBC Clean Energy Research Centre, and MECH prof was interviewed by the Vancouver Sun about the future of transit.
He said next-generation electric and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles should be the next step for transit agencies to improve efficiency and sustainability, and utilizing the ?Internet of Things? should also be a priority.
?The basic premise is that right now vehicles are already connected; already communicating with other vehicles, but the next logical step is, of course, the vehicles (getting) connected to the city?s infrastructure,? he said.
Original story from APSC News
To read the full story please visit: Vancouver Sun
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November 2016 Student Spotlight: Dylan Feldman,?16
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2016/11/3 6:39)
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Name: Dylan Feldman
Major: Double major in Theater & Performance Studies and Computer Science
Year: 5th Year Senior
When did you first become interested in lighting design?
I?ve been involved in theater lighting since my freshman year of high school. My theater teacher basically said, ?We need another lighting designer because ours is graduating.? So I said yes on a whim, and then ended up loving it and deciding to pursue it professionally. I knew when I entered Cal that I wanted to study lighting design, so I sought out TDPS and enrolled in all the design courses I could.
What is it about lighting design that attracts you?
I?ve actually thought about this a lot. Halfway through tech week, I always get really tired and grumpy, thinking, ?Why am I doing this? It?s so stressful and long and I could be doing so many other things.? But what I?ve realized is that I really like coming together with a bunch of different people, often strangers, to make something ...
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November 2016 Faculty Spotlight: Julia Fawcett
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2016/11/3 6:25)
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Julia Fawcett, Assistant Professor and Performance Studies/History scholar, is the newest member of TDPS’s faculty. She comes to UC Berkeley from Ryerson University in Toronto.
Picture a venn diagram. If the circle on the left is Theater History and the circle on the right is Performance Studies, the overlapping section in the middle is the research home of Julia Fawcett, the newest member of TDPS?s faculty. Julia, who comes to UC Berkeley from Ryerson University in Toronto, self-identifies as a ?Performance Historian? and her research interests focus primarily on theater history and performance studies in the context of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Says Julia, ?I?m interested in what was happening onstage during this time period, but I am also interested in performances that were taking place outside of the theater.?
Julia?s research requires her to be part researcher, part detective, and part investigative journalist. For example, her current research pro ...
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Student Veterans? Stories Take Centerstage in Choreographer Joe Goode?s New Piece?Reentry: The Proce
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2016/11/2 7:21)
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Berkeley, CA ? November 2016. The UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies continues its 2016/2017 season with the new physical theater piece Reentry: The Process of Resilience , created by acclaimed choreographer Joe Goode from interviews with Cal student veterans. The production uses verbatim text, physical movement, music, and other forms to share veterans? narratives of their UC Berkeley experiences and craft a nuanced portrait of reintegration, resilience and the tenacity of the human spirit. Reentry: The Process of Resilience plays November 17-20, with performances Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 8:00 PM and Saturday & Sunday at 2:00 PM in Durham Studio Theater on the UC Berkeley Campus. Tickets are $13 to $20 and can be purchased online through the TDPS box office ( http://tdps.berkeley.edu/events/reentry ) or at the door.
To create Reentry: The Process of Resilience , award-winning choreographer and TDPS Professor Joe Goode worked ...
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Spring 2018 Production Resources
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2016/11/1 23:50)
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Many file links on this page require specific permissions.
If you lack access to something you need, request it through Google Drive or contact the Production Manager.
General Information
Full TDPS season calendar can be viewed here: 16-17 Master Calendar
Google Collaboration Apps including Drive, Groups and bCal are used for sharing information and scheduling meetings for all TDPS Productions.
Google Groups are used to grant permission to Drive folders and group addresses can be found on each show contact sheet.
Thousands of show files are shared in Drive, so it is important to use the established naming convention for folders and files. Please add the show prefix to all folders and filenames. i.e. “PS Descriptive Filename.pdf”, “BDP16 Folder name”, etc.
Meetings are scheduled to accommodate Director and design team and most often occur between 9 and 12 Tuesday ? Friday to avoid courses an ...
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Big NSERC gains for UBC advanced manufacturing researchyusuf-from-apsc-news
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/10/25 8:35)
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UBC mechanical engineering professor Yusuf Altintas, P.Eng., has been awarded one of four 2016 Strategic Partnership Grants for Networks by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), valued at $5.5 million over five years.
The recipients were announced on October 19, 2016 at Carleton University by the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, and the Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change.
Altintas and his research partners have also received significant industry funding to complement the NSERC grant: $1.785 million from Canadian companies (Pratt & Whitney Canada, Honda Canada, Ontario Drive & Gear, Memex, Origin, CADlink and Alcoa) and $781,000 from international companies (Sandvik Sweden, Danobat, Boeing, the Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan and SIMIC Korea) over five years.
Supporting large-scale, multidisciplinary research projects that require a network approach, the Strategic Partner ...
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Congratulations to our Department Scholars and Outstanding Undergrads!img_5908img_5870img_5883img_58
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/10/21 3:39)
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On October 18th, 2016, the Mechanical Engineering department recognized graduate and undergraduate students who have excelled in their academic programs.
For outstanding achievements in graduate studies and research, the following students received a medal and the honorary designation of Department Scholar:
Sarah Crosby
David Funes Rojas
Mehadi Hasan
Michael Karpinski-Leydier
Kui Pan
Hatef Rahmani
David Sommer
Alexander Sylvester
Hoda Talebian
Miayan Yeremi
For excellence in the undergraduate program, the department awarded certificates of achievement to the following students:
Michael Alexander Andersen
Albert Kong
Zhaoshuo Li
Daniel Benjamin Lin
David Kar Kit Luo
Jonathan Patrick Marr
Jian Lik Ng
Sophie Ramsden
Rory Alexander Smith
Sonia Ruth Taylor
Jordan Wong
Ruolan Ye
Please join us in congratulating these exceptional students!
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Walter Mérida receives award for ?clean capitalism?merida-clean50
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/10/13 3:47)
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Walter Mérida, P.Eng., director of the UBC Clean Energy Research Centre and a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering has been announced as a recipient of a 2017 Clean50 award under the category of Education and Thought Leadership.
The Clean50 recognizes remarkable and inspiring leaders and connects those leaders in order to bridge gaps and build connections. Their annual awards offer recognition to Canada?s leaders in sustainability and are selected from 16 diverse categories that transcend numerous industries, academia, different levels of government, thought leaders and advocates.
Award citation
A clean energy solutions developer for over 20 years, Walter is now an equal part innovation accelerator energizer bunny. He formed and led a clean-energy partnership between UBC and the Fraunhofer Society in Germany and with 23 other diverse partners. He leads a multi-institutional group (Transportation Futures) at the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, serves ...
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UC Berkeley Commemorates the 80th Anniversary of the Spanish Civil War with Slate of Cultural Events
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2016/10/12 4:57)
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This fall, UC Berkeley marks the 80th Anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) with a series of cultural events on campus, including theater performances, exhibits, film screenings and public discussions. These events commemorate the Spanish Civil War, recognize the remarkable achievements of volunteers during and after the war, and mark UC Berkeley?s connection to this progressive, activist, and internationalist event.
When General Francisco Franco staged a coup against the democratically elected Spanish government in July 1936 he did not realize the passions his action would unleash around the world. Approximately 30,000 volunteers traveled to Spain between 1936-1939 to support the Spanish Republic in its struggle against Franco; 2,700 of those volunteers were from the US.
One of the first and most celebrated volunteers was Robert Hale Merriman, a Berkeley PhD student in Economics, who became the first commander of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, which was made ...
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