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Two awards from SICE
from Nakamura&Yamamoto Lab
(2017/12/22 12:09)
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Will you support TDPS with a tax-deductible end-of-year gift?
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2017/12/22 5:18)
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A note about end of year giving:
Thank you for considering TDPS for a tax-deductible yearend gift. Please see below for information about how to give online or by check. Checks postmarked in 2017 and received by January 5, 2018 will be credited to 2017. If you have any questions about a yearend gift, please contact Department Manager Sandy Richmond at sandyjbr@berkeley.edu or her office line at 510-642-9755. As the TDPS office will be closed from noon on December 22-January 1, email will yield a faster response.
From the Chair:
We are living in a divisive time. Every day there is some new example of communication breaking down. During such a time, it is tempting to only seek out voices that affirm our own sense of the world. Here in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, we challenge ourselves to see things differently.
Theater, dance, and performance have a unique power at this time. Through the perfor ...
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WEB Page Relaunch
from Nakamura&Yamamoto Lab
(2017/12/20 17:08)
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We relaunched our WEB page.
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After More Than a Year Lost at Sea, Ada Has Been Found38817066031_81da0440b7_o
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/12/6 3:24)
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The first day of December brought good news to the UBC Sailbot team – their lost Sailbot was discovered off the coast of Florida.
In August 2016, the UBC Sailbot Ada ? an autonomous sailboat designed and built by UBC students ? was launched off the coast of Newfoundland with the goal of crossing the Atlantic. This feat has never been accomplished despite the numerous attempts by researchers.
After 800km, the UBC Sailbot team lost contact with Ada when the sailbot was damaged in a storm and lost power. Power briefly returned when sunlight hit the boat’s solar panels a few days later, allowing the team to track Ada to her last known position near the Azures Islands in Portugal. Ada’s journey set the record for the longest distance autonomously sailed across the Atlantic Ocean.
Over 12 months later, Ada was discovered on December 1, 2017 by the research vessel Neil Armstrong off the coast of Florida. The Neil Armstrong was on an expedition led by Jennifer ...
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Congratulations November 2017 Grads!!BannerNovember 2017 Graduation CakeAward Recipient 1Award Recip
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/11/24 9:14)
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Please join us in congratulating the Mechanical Engineering Fall 2017 graduates, who received their degrees on November 23. The department hosted a reception before the graduation ceremony to recognize some of our outstanding students.
Several of our students received awards based on their academic achievements. Their names are below, in alphabetical order.
Academic Achievement Award
For students who have an average of over 90% during their degree.
Mark Terrance Bonar
Shujun Gao
Chenlu Han
Shayan Hoshyari
Alexander David Sylvester
Min Xia
Ehsan Zaman
NAME Design Award
Awarded to the student team who received the highest grade on their design project.
Mark Terrance Bonar
Saran Deep Singh
Cheng Yang
Degree with Distinction
For students who achieved an overall first-class average in second- through fourth-year courses.
Cody John Pavel Esau
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Playwright Dipika Guha on?Mechanics of Love,?and the Relationship Between Love and Logic
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2017/11/18 4:48)
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TDPS: How would you describe Mechanics of Love ?
DG: It?s a bit like a carousel. [Laughs.] Four people with differing points of view find themselves on this love carousel, and they have to negotiate being on the ride and also being with each other on that ride. Today, that?s how I?m thinking about it!
TDPS: What inspired you to write this play?
DG: All of my plays come out of a confluence of interests and things that I was thinking about at the time.
With this particular play, I had just come out of a long-term collaboration with scientists who were engaged in the incredible difficult task of quantifying gender bias — something that is felt, but is so nebulous and hard to quantify.
So they were looking for ways to quantify it, and I was responding to their research and writing scenes that were hopefully doing more than illustrating what was happening — trying to get to the unspoken nature of what it is like to both experience and have bias, and how it ...
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Agnes d?Entremont Featured for Open Problem Library ProjectAgnes screenshot from BCcampus video 2
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/11/10 7:37)
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Dr. Agnes d’Entremont, an instructor in Mechanical Engineering, and her colleague Dr. Jonathan Verrett, an instructor in Chemical and Biological Engineering, were featured in a video by BC Campus for their work with an open-source online homework system.
The video highlights how creating problems for the WeBWork Open Problem Library (OPL) improves their students’ learning experience and reduces financial barriers. WeBWork is an open-source online homework system for math and science courses that provides students with immediate, detailed feedback. They are allowed to make changes to their answer, which promotes learning. WeBWorks also has individualized versions of problems, allowing instructors to encourage students to work together – each student has a similar but unique problem, and much develop their own answer to their individual version of the problem. For instructors, WeBWork has over 30,000 problems in an Open Problem Library that can be used in math ...
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UC Berkeley presents?Mechanics of Love,?a playful, poetic new comedy by Dipika Guha
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2017/11/1 6:10)
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Berkeley, CA – October 2017 – UC Berkeley?s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) continues its 2017-18 season with Mechanics of Love , a wryly poetic and playful comedy that questions the laws governing who and how we love, and the cost of making sense of it all. Written by rising playwright Dipika Guha, this fast-paced four-person production will be presented in an intimate in-the-round configuration on the Zellerbach Playhouse stage on the UC Berkeley campus. Directed by Christine Nicholson, Mechanics of Love runs November 16-19. Tickets are $13 to $20 and can be purchased online through the TDPS box office (tdps.berkeley.edu/events/mechanics-of-love/) or at the door.
Sometimes, the business of beginning a new world involves forgetting the old one. But when you forget your wife to marry a ballerina with an artificial spine?and the ballerina forgets you to marry your fashionable wife?and then they both fall in love wit ...
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Mech Department Tours?2017/18 dates now posted!Olson-talking
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/10/13 2:52)
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Interested in seeing what goes on in our labs and student spaces? The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers public tours throughout the year. Our student-led tours typically take 1.5 hours, and include a tour around our facilities. We typically stop at two labs and two student teams, where you will learn a bit about the research done in Mechanical Engineering and some of the great design opportunities that our students have. At the end of the tour there is an optional half-hour advising session where we will have program advisers to answer any questions you may have about the department or UBC Engineering.
Check out this year’s tour dates here.
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Elizabeth Croft Discusses the Future of Robotics in CBC InterviewDSC_3420
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/10/12 4:57)
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Elizabeth Croft and student making adjustments to “Charlie”.
Following the release of the new Blade Runner movie, MECH professor and Director of the the Collaborative Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab (CARIS), Elizabeth Croft gave a short interview with CBC on the future of robotics. In her interview, Croft discusses how to maintain a friendly relationship between robots and humans, especially amid worries that automation means a decline in “human” jobs. The key, she says, is not to lament the loss of low-wage jobs, but embrace how this shift will help to maintain an overall better standard of living and create more “good quality, complex and interesting jobs.” This in turn, will lead to increased Canadian productivity as labour is focused in more complex, higher-value jobs.
The article also explores Canada’s unique stance in the worldwide discussion on roboethics and the current work of Canadian companies that specialize in ...
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