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I was honored to serve as a keynote speaker (May 6, 2007)
for the opening session at the
American Physical Society (APS) workshop titled:
Gender Equity: Strengthening the Physics Enterprise in Universities and National Laboratories.
I was also invited to speak at the
2007 APS April meeting.
The last time I had been at an APS meeting was with my mother (then a professor
of physics), while I was a Freshman in college.
Also reported in the
June 2007 issue of the APS News. Chairs of 50 physics departments in the US
and leaders from national laboratories gathered at ACP headquarters in May to
discuss how to double the number of
women in physics over the next 15 years. . . Alice Agogino of UC Berkeley
addresses the opening session of the Gender Equity conference.
There were 127 attendees at the conference, of whom 72 were male and 55 were female --
closer to gender equality than in the larger physics community.
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Of PDAs and maternal medicine in Mongolia:
Agogino's doctoral student, Jaspal Sandhu, was featured on
CNET News.com, 9 April 2007 special
report on Engineering Change.
"In a three-part series, CNET News.com profiled Sandhu and two other
engineers who chose hands-on international development work over the cubicle lifestyle.
Their perspective among tech do-gooders is unique: they came to the United States
either as children or for education, and carried with them an ingrained
understanding that in many parts of the world, Web surfing, social networking and
gadget craving take a back seat to the basics of fighting childhood disease and
drinking potable water. . . . He has an uncommon perspective for a mechanical engineer, added Alice Agogino, Sandhu's professor and adviser at Berkeley. "There's a saying in the engineering community that the civil engineers make the targets and the mechanical engineers shoot them down," she said.
With many mechanical engineers working in the defense industry, Sandhu's educational projects are "very unusual."
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But Sandhu has always been willing to roll up his sleeves, Agogino said. When the lab was working to protect migrant workers in central California from repeated pesticide poisoning, Sandhu decided to stay the night with a family in the affected town to fully analyze their real-world situation."
In Mongolia, Sandhu is drawing on the so-called human-centered design approach of Agogino's Berkeley lab, a bottom-up philosophy that begins the design process in communities, not in concrete rooms. "We discover their needs and then match those needs to the best solution," Agogino explained.
That field-first approach might sound like an obvious methodology,
but it's not usually what happens. "There's so much bull sometimes with all that
technology can do for the poor and starving in the third world,"
Agogino said, referring to cases in which technologists formulate solutions
based on a largely theoretical approach. "But that's not always appropriate for
rural environments. (Sandhu) really understands that."
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"ENMU Business Faculty and Students and Helping Senior Citizens with Taxes",
March 6, 2007. Article described the volunteer work of my mother,
a retired physics professor.
Mind the Gender Gap, Study Group Says, Forefront, Spring 2007, p. 8.
First-generation airbags, installed in motor
vehicles until 1998, decreased the risk of death
for "average" front-seat occupants in 10 percent
of collisions; but they actually caused injury
in others, primarily women and children, in
40 percent of cases by some estimates. This,
says Berkeley ME professor Alice Agogino, is
because women were not involved in early
research, in which airbags were tested exclusively
on the average 5'10", 170-pound
American male.
"Discrimination is bad science," Agogino
says. "It affects how we do our research and
practice." Agogino was one of 18 members of
a National Academy of Sciences study panel
that found that pervasive discrimination
against women in the academic sciences and
engineering is chasing them out of these
fields. Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau
was also on the panel, which published its
findings last fall in the report "Beyond Bias
and Barriers."
Women underrepresented in professorships despite high grad rates, study shows article
in The Daily Texan by Philip Jankowski, January 26, 2007. The article is about a campus-wide
talk I gave at UT Austin titled:
Beyond Bias and Barriers: Gender Equity in Academia, University of Texas at Austin,
January 25, 2007. Scroll down this link to get a copy of
my slides and the poster for the event.
Sponsored by the Office of the Provost,
the Center for Women's and Gender Studies, Faculty Women's Organization,
Women in Engineering, and Women in the Natural Sciences. The talk concerned a recent National Academies' report of the
same title. This report has received
considerable press coverage, including print, radio, television, and blogs.
See
report and add your own
comments.
EngineeringPathway.com has a catalog record for the National Academies Report along with a
comment/ blog from the community.
See
catalog record to get to the report with
community comments to the right.
See
catalog record to get to the report with
community comments to the right.
I was very much disturbed by the insensitivity of
Paul Fain's January 19, 2007 article in the
Chronicle of Higher Education titled:
Denice Denton made a rapid rise to become a university chancellor. Then she leapt to her death. Why?
The article includes misinformation and personal medical information that should be a family matter.
The article has material from my tribute to Chancellor Denton, but the journalist did not talk to me directly.
I consider this sloppy journalism, at best.
"The quality of Denice Denton's research won her wide acclaim, and she could have had a place in academic history just based on her contributions to her discipline," said Alice M. Agogino, a professor of engineering at Berkeley, during her remarks at a memorial service for Ms. Denton. "But Denice had much more to offer."
Ms. Agogino first met Ms. Denton in 1987 at a ceremony to mark Ms. Denton's being named a recipient of National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Award. Ms. Agogino had won the prestigious award a few years earlier, as had Ms. Denton's future partner, Ms. Kalonji.
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Wireless Smart Lighting System: Saves Energy, Responds to Human Preferences.
"Your mother always told you: 'Turn off the lights!'
And it turns out, that was sound advice. Turning off
the lights when they are not in use is one of the best
ways to save energy - especially in an office building.
These days, many people don't even have to flip the
switch to save energy. Automated lighting, which turns
on when a person walks into a room and off when he
or she leaves, is fairly common in many newer offices
today. And opportunities to save even more energy
with automated lighting are just around the corner.
UC Berkeley researchers are exploring new combinations
of commercial lighting systems controlled by 'smart'
wireless sensor technology that can customize a room's
lighting to meet a range of pre-established conditions,
including the occupant's personal preference. Mechanical
Engineering Professor Alice Agogino is leading a multi-
year project funded in part by the California Energy
Commission's Public Interest Energy Research (PIER)
Program. . ." Article in Energy Notes, December 2006, Vol. 4, Issue 2.
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Chabot's TechBridge Newsletter,
Fred T. Korematsu Discovery Academy and Esperanza Academy,
highlighted our
mobile learning project and our pilot classroom project in the 5th grade class
of the Fred T. Korematsu Discovery Academy and Esperanza Academy in December 2006.
What better way to introduce engineering than with a fun lesson introduced by
engineering students from the University of California , Berkeley .
Professor Alice Agogino and her graduate students in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal
piloted curriculum on simple machines with PDAs. After a hands-on activity and mini-lesson on
simple machines the girls were given PDAs and invited on a scavenger hunt.
Exploring their classrooms and school yard, the girls captured photos of inclined planes,
levers, and pulleys. The following week, the girls viewed their photos and tested their
knowledge, identifying the simple machines and describing how they work.
With a field trip planned for later in the year to U.C. Berkeley, the girls from the
Korematsu and Esperanza Academies we hope to continue to support the girls' interest in
engineering.
UC's Berkeley and Davis campuses earn Sloan award for family-friendly policies:
The Berkeley and Davis campuses of the University of California have received a $250,000 Alfred P. Sloan Award to expand programs supporting career flexibility for tenured and tenure-track faculty.
The Sloan Award for Faculty Career Flexibility, announced today (Monday, Sept. 25), recognizes research universities for their leadership and accomplishments in implementing groundbreaking policies that enhance flexible career paths for faculty. It comes as institutions of higher education are increasingly recognizing the need to beef up family-friendly policies in order to compete for new talent as baby boomer faculty members retire over the next decade.UC's Berkeley and Davis campuses earn Sloan award for family-friendly policies. The award also comes one week after the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released a report on the barriers faced by women in academic science and engineering. UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and Alice Agogino, UC Berkeley professor of mechanical engineering, were members of the NAS panel that authored the report."
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Science and the Gender Gap as part of the magazine's package of stories on women and leadership. "Until the mid-1990s, most women scientists were on their own as they tried to work around these barriers. "When I was in graduate school," says ALICE AGOGINO, A PROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT BERKELEY, "people would say there was no gender in science, no ethnicity in science. There's just good science. I was intimidated by this, but then I realized it isn't true." Gender, many women scientists say, shows up in everything from whether you work with the professor of your choice to how much lab space you get." . . . "Beyond the support the female students provide for each other, Berkeley (like other campuses, including Georgia Tech) tries to help by offering new "family friendly" policies like tenure-clock extension after the birth of a child, reduced teaching duties for new parents and a part-time option. "I think we're on the cutting edge," says Agogino." Also in UCBerkeleyNews,
18 September 2006. Ruth Simmons, President of Brown University and member of the Committee, was featured on the
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NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Shalala also spoke on the
Jim Lehrer Hour on September 19. Even Rush Limbaugh is rumoured to have commented on this report in his broadcast on September 19, not that I actually listened to him.
Other press articles include: New York Times
Bias Is Hurting Women in Science, Panel Reports; The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (from the Associated Press release)
Gender still hinders women scientists; and Reuters News
Study finds U.S. bias against women in science "Women are being filtered out of high-level science, math and engineering jobs in the United States, and there is no good reason for it, according to a National Academies report released on Monday. A committee of experts looked at all the possible excuses -- biological differences in ability, hormonal influences, childrearing demands, and even differences in ambition -- and found no good explanation for why women are being locked out." The Scientist published
NAS issues report on gender bias
Inter-institution cooperation is needed to improve the climate for women in academic science, the report states. Fox News
Gender Still Hinders Women Scientists "Gender bias -- not any biological difference between the sexes -- stifles the careers of female scientists at the nation's universities, says a new report that calls for wide-ranging steps to level the playing field.
The study is the latest since Harvard University's president ignited controversy last year by suggesting that innate gender differences may partly explain why fewer women than men reach top university science jobs. The comment eventually cost him his job.
Four times more men than women who hold doctorates in science and engineering have full-time faculty positions, the National Academy of Sciences reported Monday. Minority women are virtually absent from leading tenured positions."
The Chronicle of Higher Education wrote
"National Academies Panel Blames Biases for Women's Underrepresentation in Science and Mathematics". NetworkWorld Women not getting a fair shake at research universities. Harvard Crimson No Innate Gender Difference. CBS News Women Scientists Face Bias
Study Says Steps Needed To Level Playing Field At Colleges, Universities, WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2006.
American Council on Education publishes Research Universities Need to Eliminate Barriers Against Women in Science and Engineering; 'The report urges immediate reform and decisive action by university administrators, professional societies, government agencies and Congress to eliminate institutional gender bias." The report has also received attention from the International Press as well:
NAS issues report on Gender Bias from indymedia Ireland "Inter-institution cooperation is needed to improve the climate for women in academic science, the report states"; Barrieres voor betavrouwen in VS;
Nieuwsbank: Interactief Nederlands persbureau "Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Dream of Women in Academic...";
International Herald Tribute;
and The China Daily,
Study finds U.S. bias against women in science. Also see the press list initially compiled by Laurel Haak at the National Research Council.
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A memorial ceremony honoring
UCSC Chancellor Denice Denton took place on Thursday, June 29 in USCS's Recital Hall. I was honored to speak to her academic career accomplishments (download PDF file or link to
web version of testimony).
Donna Shalala, President of the University of Miami, former Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Clinton administration, asked me to read the
attached letter.
The event was written up in numerous newspapers, including the
Santa Cruz Sentinel, June 30, 2006 and the New York Times, June 30, 2006:
Stunned Campus Mourns Its Chief, an Apparent Suicide, Speakers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, remembered Denice Dee Denton as a pioneer who advanced the careers of women and minorities in the sciences. . . Dr. Denton was among those who chastised Lawrence H. Summers when, as Harvard's president, he questioned women's scientific abilities at a conference she attended last year. Afterward, she described the event in an e-mail, jokingly titled, "Denice does Boston," said Alice Agogino, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Listen to an audio recording of the event or
View a slideshow of the event produced by the San Jose Mercury,
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Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence.
The campus this year introduced a new award to acknowledge meritorious achievement by Academic Senate faculty members
in pursuit of the university's mission to create an inclusive environment and serve the needs of the
increasingly diverse state of California. The Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence recognizes
faculty who are providing leadership in research, education, and public service in building an equitable and diverse
learning environment.
Recipients are Alice Agogino, professor of mechanical engineering; Gibor Basri, professor of astronomy;
William Lester, professor of chemistry; and Rhona Weinstein, professor of psychology. Agogino's work is described in the
award program as "an extraordinary blend of research in mechanical engineering, inquiry into issues of gender and minority
access and equity, and the building of programs, resources, and curricula to advance both causes.". . . Berkeleyan, May 31, 2006.
Also in Engineering News
September 1, 2006, Vol. 77, no. 3F.
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Agricultural Projects Win CITRIS White Paper Competition. Two ME graduate students, Thomas H. Cauley III and
Brian D. Sosnowchik, and their teammate, Alexander K. Do, are co-winners of the First Annual CITRIS White Paper Competition. Alice M. Agogino is their faculty advisor on this project and PI on their related
NCIIA grant, "Wireless Crop Protection."
Campus staff issues to take center stage at May 9 diversity forum: The forum is sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor and the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate. Senate Chair Alice Agogino notes that the entire campus community met last March in a similar forum,
'Diversity in Action: Leading the Nation Through Research and Practice,' where faculty issues were discussed.
"A great deal of input and advice from the many staff who attended that forum" helped shape the launch of the
faculty-focused Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative, she says.
"The entire community's support and thought-provoking advice has been crucial to what I consider the current success of that initiative." Berkeleyan, article by Cathy Cockrell, Public Affairs, 3 May 2006.
Faculty's digital divide:
Access to computing resources varies widely. An Academic Senate committee offers a plan to level the playing field and safeguard network security . . . . "Additionally, the campus has been developing and launching new computerized systems for more and more functions - from course management and grading to course enrollment, calendaring, and web-based e-mail. Alice Agogino, chair of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate (and a former chair of COMP), says the Senate itself is busy "trying to put many aspects of academic life online" - such as personnel and faculty-promotion functions. As such efforts come to fruition, faculty with aging computers, outdated software, and little or no technical support are sometimes unable to use the new systems." Berkeleyan, article by Cathy Cockrell, Public Affairs, 27 April 2006.
Report Finds Decline in Faculty Pay . . . . "We estimate that our faculty salaries are 15 to 20 percent below our peer institutions," said Alice Agogino, chair of the campus Academic Senate.
UC Berkeley salary levels also dropped relative to other public universities that offer doctorates, which on average experienced no change in inflation-adjusted salary levels.
"We don't have enough money," Agogino said. "The budget cuts to the UC system for the past few years have left us unable to compensate our faculty at the rates of our peer institutions." Daily Californian, article by Michael Kay, 27 April 2006.
'UC students asked to complete online survey to improve undergraduate experience . . . . "Online survey techniques allow for new ways to analyze student responses, which include open-ended questions, said Alice Agogino, chair of the UC Berkeley division of the Academic Senate. . .
"UCUES is part of a new and vital approach for analyzing and improving the undergraduate experience, developed as a collaborative project between faculty researchers and university administrators," she said. "We need students to seize this opportunity to help make Berkeley an even better university." UC Berkeley News, 26 April 2006.
Diversity Research Initiative draws enthusiastic response_Ten faculty pre-proposals, from a surprising array of fields, advance to next phase. . . "Response came from 21 teams from a broad array of scholarly fields - including fields not immediately associated with diversity issues", says Alice Agogino, co-chair of the BDRI steering committee and current chair of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate. . . . Research quality and potential to make a positive impact will be key criteria, says Agogino. "The goal is to provide research-based programs to really have an impact on diversity in the state of California, first, and then the nation." Berkeleyan, article by Cathy Cockrell, Public Affairs, 19 April 2006.
Spring Meeting of the Berkeley Division, Calmessages April 5, 2006.
One of my student E-Teams with funding from the
National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) was featured in The Oregonian, March 22, 2006, during the NCIIA "March Madness" conference in Portand. The "E-Teams" -- short for Excellence and Entrepreneurship Teams -- are working on inventions ranging from a home water-purification system for developing countries to a medical device that quickly detects acute kidney failure. . . . Alex Do, who is on a team at the University of California at Berkeley that is developing a frost-protection system for vineyards, said the program's guidance and funding helped his group. "It has provided a hands-on, real-life learning experience that really teaches you how to work with others in solving complex problems. The Spring 2006 issue of the NCIIA newsletter gives more details on the project. Also see:
A wireless watchdog for Napa vineyards. Engineering News, April 10, 2006 Vol. 77, no. 12S
Learning with the $100 Laptop, eLearning Africa. The G1:1 members want to contribute to the discussion about the $100 laptop and to bring in their collective experience. They have written an Open Letter to put Negroponte's idea into the bigger picture
G1:1 is an international community of researchers working on "globally, one computer for one person" concept for learning.
As a Senator to the systemwide Council and Assembly of the Academic Senate (Fall 2005 - Summer 2006), I have not had a more difficult challenge than that concerning the cirmcumstances leading to the removal of the standing Chair of the Systemwide Academic Senate, Clifford Brunk, professor of biology at UCLA.
Blog of events and press releases.
Raffi Kamalian, Ying Zhang and Alice Agogino
win the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Best Paper Award for their paper "Microfabrication and Characterization of Evolutionary MEMS Resonators".
I was interviewed for the radio show WAMC (Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics on the air)
Northeast Public Radio. The segment was developed by Allison Dunne and titled:
"Retaining Women Professors in Science and Engineering Programs:
Improving Diversity and Learning".
UC Berkeley's MBA program in the Haas School of Business receives high national rankings (pdf) the Wall Street Journal Interactive, 2005. Our MBA program, under which my joint course on New Product Development is offered, also made the top 5 honor roll in entrepreneurship and Information Technology. It was also listed as one of the top 5 schools for recruiting women, minorities and students with high ethical standards.
In the Days Before Drug Laws. The Washington Post, Letters to the Editor, Dale Gieringer, Dec. 25, 2005.
Disaster Preparedness Training - January 12, 2006 Calmessages Dec. 21, 2005.
Birgeneau and Peers Pledge Support for Female Faculty As part of a long-term effort to increase gender equity among faculty, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and the presidents of eight other leading universities pledged to implement more family friendly policies in a statement released Tuesday. . . . . "It was a good beginning ... this is a reaffirmation of a multi-year project," said mechanical engineering professor Alice Agogino, who serves as chair of UC Berkeley's Academic Senate. "There are still huge improvements that are needed." The Daily Californian Dec. 8, 2005. Also see Berkeleyan article.
Meeting Examines Diversity Initiative UC Berkeley has taken a step toward determining how to increase racial and ethnic diversity on campus, addressing one of Chancellor Robert Birgeneau's initial pledges to the campus community. The Daily Californian Dec. 7, 2005.
Call for Nominations - Leon Henkin Citation Calmessages Nov. 30, 2005.
Training of American Engineers Must Change, Experts Say Countries such as China and South Korea are graduating engineers in record numbers, while America's contribution to the field is on the decline. To stay competitive in the field, experts are saying that the way America educates its engineering students, and who it educates, must change. . . When it comes to engineering, girls are being asked to be only a part of a person, so they don't choose this career," said Dr. Alice M. Agogino, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley. Traditional post-secondary engineering education has focused almost exclusively on technical expertise. The forefront of the movement to change engineering education, at least looking at the FIE conference, appears to target this directly. . . To be competitive internationally, environmental sustainability will soon need to be on the front end of any design program, argued Dr. Agogino, also co-author of the National Academy of Engineering's report titled, "The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century." The report highlights coming engineering challenges, with environmental and energy-depletion-related problems topping the list. It does not see outsourcing of engineering jobs internationally as something that should be dreaded. "We need to welcome the competition and the inclusion that a world economy gives," said Agogino, adding that many large engineering companies intend to outsource 10-20% of their workforce in the next few years. Article from The Epoch TimesNov. 23, 2005.
Nominating Petitions for 2006 Academic Senate Elections Calmessages Nov. 22, 2005.
ME alum co-authors book demystifying innovation and the process of early product design. "With globalization and offshoring, the only way for the West to stay competitive is to focus on innovation," says Jonathan Cagan, ME alum, professor at Carnegie Mellon, and author of a new book. . . The Design of Things to Come: How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Products. . . . As a Ph.D. student studying under ME professor Alice Agogino, Cagan worked long hours on computational design but budgeted plenty of time for other things. He was president of Cal's ballroom dance club and enjoyed Berkeley's restaurants and coffee shops, SFMOMA, San Francisco, and the beaches. "It's a really invigorating area to live in," he says. Engineering News, November 14, 2005 Vol. 77, no. 12F.
Alice Agogino, professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, has been
elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2005.
Fall Meeting of the Berkeley Division Calmessages Oct. 24, 2005.
Better than a horoscope and as much fun as a fortune cookie, without the calories Engineering News, UC Berkeley, October 10, 2005.ME graduate student Catherine Newman (B.S.'03 ME) created the MOTTO postcards as a way "to express a feeling or inspire an alternative perspective" for her subscribers. The postcard features words or sayings "to laugh at and throw away, or adopt for a day, or live by, whatever you decide," she explains. Newman works in ME professor Alice Agogino's BEST (Berkeley Expert Systems Technology) lab, where researchers specialize in design theory. So when she came up with the idea for MOTTO last spring, Newman carefully considered the product design.
Experts say pollution trend needs reversing. Mercedes Agogino, emeritus professor of physics, and Daniel Acheson-Brown, associate professor of political science, were the other two speakers of the forum. "Agogino said the mindset is tough to change for general public members, also. She said many people don't think ahead to how future generations will be impacted. "We're not thinking of our children and grandchildren the way we are living," Agogino said about people not conserving energy and causing air pollution." Chinese Business Council for Sustainable Development.
Leslie Speer (California College of Arts) and Alice Agogino (UC Berkeley)
"Leslie Speer's team was comprised of students from CCA and UC Berkeley, and focused on designing for the
migrant farm workers in the central valley of California. They included a user-centered research approach,
an interdisciplinary approach, and a holistic design approach.
The emphasis of this project was on the migrant farm worker's constant exposure to pesticides.
The current product "solution" to this chronic exposure is the bandana - a fairly lame response to a
serious problem. This project looked at designing better protection for this problem, with the end
result taking the form of a suit (the Seguro) for this community." Industrial Design Supersite,
"Design Education Today, 2005 Eastman/IDSA National Education Conference"
by Stepanie Munson and Bruce M. Tharp.
Branching Out, Engineers Take on Humanities Courses : Competitive Job Market Inspires Technology Majors to Cultivate Creativity, Social Skills Daily Californian, Thursday, September 29, 2005.
Tomorrow's B-School? It Might Be A D-School
Business schools are hooking up with design institutes -- or starting their own.
"At the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, Sara L. Beckman,
a senior lecturer in operations, teaches a course called Design as a Strategic Business Issue.
Beckman has teamed up with IDEO, Berkeley's School of Engineering, and California College of the Arts to
teach a course called Managing the New Product Development Process. For many MBAs, it's the first time
they have ever worked with non-business people on projects. "The analytical MBA focuses on solving a problem,
but the design process focuses on problem-finding," says Beckman."
Agogino co-developed and co-teaches this course with Beckman. Our course makes the
"top global D-School" list.
One of our students, Manuel Bronstein, is listed as one of Haas' "notable alumni" for helping found the
"incubator" for new product/idea generation in Microsoft's Xbox unit
Article from Business Week, August 1, 2005.
Chancellor Birgeneau and Senate Chair Agogino on Campus Response to Hurricane Katrina, September 14, 2005.
Calmessage from Senate Chair Robert Knapp announcing the appointment of Chair Alice Agogino and Vice Chair William Drummond for the Academic Senate 2005-06, August 16, 2005.
Medical Marijuana: Nearly a Thousand Rally in Santa Cruz. . . Last Saturday was medical marijuana day in Santa Cruz, California. Hundreds of people marched to City Hall for a rally to support the local Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana and to insist that the federal government needs to butt out of California's medical marijuana law. It was the largest medical marijuana demonstration in Santa Cruz since September 2002, when supportive city council members and county supervisors authorized a medical marijuana-distributing demonstration on the steps of City Hall in support of WAMM after it was raided by the DEA. . . . Photo courtesy of Arianne Agogino Gieringer. StoptheDrugWar, July 22, 2005.
UC Berkeley chemist Angelica Stacy receives national teaching award . . . "The awards are NSF's recognition of accomplishments by scientists and engineers whose roles as educators and mentors are considered as important as their ground-breaking results in research," said NSF's director, Arden L. Bement Jr. "We're proud of these scholars' deep sense of dedication to spreading their special research talents into many facets of the classroom, into many informal arenas of science, and to the public at large."UC Berkeley's Alice Agogino, professor of mechanical engineering, was a recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Teaching Scholar award." UC Berkeley News Press Release, June 21, 2005.
Engineers of Tomorrow Need Broader Training Today, "Today's engineering students may not be adequately educated to meet the demands that will be made of their profession in 2020, says a new report from the National Academies' National Academy of Engineering. The undergraduate engineering experience needs to be reshaped to attract students to the profession, prepare them to compete in the global marketplace, and ensure that America's pre-eminence in engineering is not lost, said the committee that wrote the report." National Academies News, June 23, 2005.
Berkeley
Diversity Research Initiative starts to take shape , Academic
leadership welcomes research proposals from all disciplines to advance
this crucial institutional effort. "Last week a working group led by
Professors Alice Agogino and George Breslauer . . . began to craft
procedural recommendations for the research initiative, setting the stage
for what is hoped will be a prompt call for proposed topics of study,
followed by the first new hires, possibly as early as this fall. The
campus might decide to apply research expertise to health disparities,
educational opportunity and achievement, the impact of the
criminal-justice system on diverse communities, or political participation
and citizenship - to name just a few examples. But work proposed by
experts in many other, less-obvious fields - from life sciences to
engineering to art practice - will also be welcomed into the research
initiative's "big tent." Mechanical engineering's Agogino, for
example, would like to see the campus undertake research on bridging the
digital divide." The Berkeleyan,
May 4, 2005.
UC Berkeley Faculty Endorse "Statement of Principles" on Scholarly Publishing. At a March 31
faculty conference on scholarly publishing sponsored by the Berkeley Academic Senate and the Office of the Chancellor, Alice Agogino, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Vice Chair of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate, called on her colleagues to take immediate action. "[We must] support new forms of scholarly communication, working with faculty and making strategic investments in approaches that are sustainable and reduce costs to the university in the long run." Event was cited at many library sites internationally, including
BMJ.com "UK and US groups announce new initiatives on open access publishing" on May 14 and "Wissenschaftliches Publizieren" news on May 4, 2005.
The Science of a
Gender Gap: Harvard President's Contentious Comments Spark Debate About
Dearth of Women in Sciences , "Mechanical engineering professor
Alice Agogino argues that gender discrimination discourages women from
advancing in science."The Daily Californian, March 31, 2005.
Designing
for the greater good E 10 class creates gear to protect farm workers from
pesticides , "Laborers in California's agricultural valleys are
routinely exposed to pesticides. They inhale pesticides from the air,
drink pesticides in the water, and wear them in their clothes. The result
isn't good, said ME professor Alice Agogino. Studies have found that human
exposure to pesticides is linked to cancer, birth defects, stillbirth,
infertility and nervous system damage. Agogino asked her E 10 Engineering
Design and Analysis students to help. Their assignment? Design a
cost-effective and user-friendly product that would protect farm workers
as they go about their jobs. . . . Engineering News, Vol. 76, No10S, March 28, 2005. This work was partially funded by a gift award from P&G and the
Industrial Design Society of America. Also showcased in Engineering News Special Commencement Issue, May 16 , 2005 Vol. 76, no. 15S. Looking Back "This past year, Berkeley engineers have researched a number of wonderful and exciting projects in their courses and labs, through Undergraduate Research Opportunities, and in the College's 20-plus engineering student societies. The projects range from advancing pure science, to helping solve problems in developing countries, to improving the technology we use every day. On these pages, we highlight three outstanding projects that truly embody the College's mission: Educating Leaders, Creating Knowledge, and Serving Society."
The Success
Story: Two researchers say that the best design teams, like storytellers,
share different takes on the common theme "By hunkering down together on a deadline-sensitive
design project, engineering design team members inevitably come to create
their own little world within a world. That unique island takes shape over
time, starting from the moment the team decides upon an initial design
concept. Each member in turn adds his or her unique vision to the project,
building as they go. By sharing ideas, disagreeing, and resolving
differences, a shared world takes shape over the course of weeks and
months, according to Alice Agogino and Shuang Song, professor and student,
respectively, at the University of California, Berkeley. But how to tell
from the outset if a team-created world will lead to an innovative
product-or a flop? That's the question Agogino and Song would like to
answer. The two have spent the last five years looking at how design teams
communicate, in the hope that their research will pinpoint the elements
that separate the successful from the others. Agogino is a professor of
mechanical engineering at the school, while Song is a Ph.D. student in the
department." Mechanical Engineering Design, March, 2005. Reprinted in
Hoover's: Management Business Information
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The Industrial Design Society of America featured some of Agogino's ME290P class projects in their
Spring 2005 issue of Innovation. The student designs featured were
VinPod Crop Protection System, with Joe Ulrich, Thomas Cauley, Alex Do, Brian Sosnowchik, and Martin White, Bike Thieves SOL with Barry Chubrik, Remy Labesque, Nathan Pletcher, and Adam Rineck, MetroMule with Samir Mehta, Grason Ott, Joanna Moanders, and Ruth Wan, and SnoBunny with Matthew Gale, Jesse Herrick, Gauri Sharma, and Dror Shimshowitz. See Innovation article for
photos and article. Download poster for tradeshow (2 MB)
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NEEDS Digital
Library Focuses on the Future with the NAE Engineer 2020 Project ,
Alice Agogino, of the NEEDS.ORG
engineering education digital library, is pleased to announce new Engineer
2020 monthly themes based on the National Academy of Engineering's report
titled "The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New
Century", of which she is one of the co-authors. The January theme
was an overview of the report with an opportunity to catalog futuristic
educational strategies and comment on the report. February focused on
diversity issues highlighted in the report with a "Celebration of
African American Engineers" in honor of Black History month. March will
highlight "Service Learning -- Engineering in the Interest of
Society." NSDL Whiteboard Report,
Issue #69, March, 2005.
Gender
disparity on display , "Lawrence Summers' comments about women in
the sciences sparked a firestorm. . . According to the National Science
Foundation, women today earn 27% of doctorates in the physical sciences
and 17% in engineering. But they make up only 10% of university faculty
members, says Alice Agogino, a mechanical engineering professor at the
University of California-Berkeley. . . The biggest single difference is
that 'women have babies,' Agogino says. She was on a Massachusetts
Institute of Technology advisory board when the school reviewed its hiring
practices. What the panel found was "scary," she says.
"Over two-thirds of the male faculty had children, and less than
one-third of the female did. That says it all. The women either had to
make a choice of forgoing children or having a career. They couldn't do
both."USA Today, January 19,
2005. Download
special reprint edition of USA Today or see
posting at Stanford's
School of Education.
Professional Students
May Face Fee Hikes: UC Berkeley Considers 10 Percent Raise to Help
Programs, The Daily Californian,
November 22, 2004.
Shuang
Song and her advisor Alice Agogino won the 2004 Xerox Best Paper Award. It
was presented at the Design Theory and Methods Awards Lunch on Thurs.,
Sept. 30th. The citation for the paper is: Song, S. and A.M. Agogino, An
Analysis of Designers' Sketching Activities in New Product Design
Teams," Proceedings of DETC'04, ASME 2004 Design Engineering Technical
Conference, Paper # DETC2004-57474, CD ROM, ISBN # I710CD. See the award
presentation here.
Defining Engineering On Your Own Terms. News article with the
Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology about doctoral student Catherine Newman. The notion of personalizing her [Catherine Newman] engineering studies was sparked by participating during her senior year in the VDC, [Virtual Development Center] housed in the School of Engineering at Berkeley . Newman was a research assistant to Dr. Alice Agogino, the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering, in Agogino's VDC class for freshmen and sophomores, called
Designing Technology for Girls and Women..
(Download pdf version of newsletter).
New Institute
to Take Human-Centered Approach to Technology. Forefront , (Fall 2004). "The Berkeley Institute of
Design (BID) officially opened as a new interdisciplinary research center
in May with a day of tours, research overviews, and demonstrations by
center faculty. The program incorporates computer science, education,
mechanical engineering, art practice, and architecture to foster a more
human-centered approach to technology design. ME professor Alice Agogino,
among the faculty involved in the new program, helped introduce the
concepts behind the new Berkeley Institute of Design at last May's
event."
Small Scale but Cutting-Edge Research Projects Garner State Grants: Ten small-scale but innovative projects have been awarded funds by the California Energy Commission to conduct cutting-edge research that will reduce the cost of producing electricity, save energy and improve the environment. . . Alice Agogino of the University of California, Berkeley, for research on more effective lighting controls to save electricity. Press Release of the California Energy Commission, September 14, 2004.
The title of the grant is: Efficient Lighting by Sensing and Actuating with MEMS "Smart Dust Motes"
Redefining
the ME: New technologies and skills change the profession as it seeks to
fit a wide-open global marketplace. "To Agogino at Berkeley,
the real world's toehold in ME education creates mechanical engineers who
understand their customers. "One reason why mechanical engineers are
so good at creating software and integrating systems is that they're
trained in customer-driven thought," she said. . . . To preserve
jobs, engineers must remain on the leading edge of technology. Today, this
includes projects that combine mechanical with electronic, materials,
chemical, and biomechanical engineering. Integrating electronics and
software into mechanical systems, for example, has become a growth field
for MEs. The future, though, will continue to stretch the definition of
mechanical engineering. 'Too often, we limit ourselves,' Agogino said.
'We're well positioned to do so many things. It's an attitude. We have to
have the confidence to reach out to biotechnology or nanotechnology and
bring it into our field. I don't put up barriers that don't need to be
there.'" Mechanical Engineering,
Feature article by Alan S. Brown, ASME, September 2004. PDF version
is also downloadable.
Calmessages:
" I am pleased to announce the appointment of Robert Knapp,
professor of classics, to the position of chair and Alice Agogino,
professor of mechanical engineering, to the position of vice chair of the
Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate for the 2004-05 term. We greatly
appreciate their dedication and leadership in service to the Academic
Senate and the University. Professor Knapp and Professor Agogino will
begin their terms on the first day of fall instruction." -Ronald Gronsky, Academic Senate Chair-Berkeley
Division, July 7, 2004.
National Academies news: The Engineer of 2020, Science Blog, May 2004.
Engineering
Profession Must Adapt to Maintain U.S. Leadership in the Future , "
Engineering Profession Must Adapt to Maintain U.S. Leadership in the
Future " Copies of The Engineer
of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century are available from the
National Academies Press in a free online version or hard
copy.
Stanford
Engineering, Alumni in the News (July 2004) Alice M. Agogino
(PhD EES 1984). Mechanical engineering professor Alice M. Agogino was
recently recognized by the National Science Foundation (NSF) with the
Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars, the foundation's
highest honor for teaching and research excellence. Alice is one of only
eight people to receive the 2004 award nationally. Congratulations Alice
on this very well deserved and significant recognition!
Honoring the Best:
Alice Agogino and Kathleen Foley. AWIS Magazine , (Summer 2004, Vol. 33, No. 3). PDF article at: http://www.awis.org/voice/magazine/33-3/HtB.pdf.
Also
list of Fellows.
Professor
receives National Science Foundation's top teaching award. Alice M.
Agogino, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of
California, Berkeley, was recognized today (Monday, May 24) by the
National Science Foundation (NSF) with the Director's Award for
Distinguished Teaching Scholars, the foundation's highest honor for
teaching and research excellence." Forefront, Fall 2004.
NSF Names Eight
Distinguished Teaching Scholars. The National Science Foundation (NSF)
today recognized eight special persons to receive the Director's Award for
Distinguished Teaching Scholars (DTS), the foundation's highest honor for
teaching and research excellence.
Remarks at Award Ceremony from NSF Deputy Director Joseph Bordogna.
Internet
Environments for Science Education: how information technologies can
support the learning of science.
Silicon
Valley ASME News PDF file describing ASME's Silicon Valey Section and
its past presidents - Agogino (1981-82).
Professor
Minute: Interview with ME professor Alice Agogino, Engineering News, Nov. 3, 2003, Vol. 74, No. 11F.
The
Faces of Berkeley Engineering: professor Alice Agogino. As a junior in
college ME professor Alice Agogino decided to switch her major from
anthropology to mechanical engineering. While the fields may seem like
polar opposites, Agogino says her transition felt fluid and natural. She
attributes her comfort level in either world to growing up with an
anthropologist father and a physics professor mother.
Turning
things around : How engineering increased its number of female faculty. Berkelyan, 05 February 2003.
Engineering
accreditation and Standards for Technological Literacy Journal of
Engineering Education, ASEE, January
2003.
ME
professor Alice Agogino secures funding for design and product development
classes . Engineering News,
November 17, 2003, Vol. 74, No. 13F.
Letter
to Senators Wyden, Allen From Concerned Scientists & Engineers,
October 2, 2002.
Gender
Bias in Faculty Hiring, Retention, and Promotion. Streaming video of
talk by Alice M. Agogino a the University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
February 20, 2002.
Panelists
Offer Strategies for Raising the Number of Women Scientists in Academe
" Many of the other speakers echoed that improving women's
opportunities for being hired and promoted usually results in an overall
improvement for a department or institution. In a now-famous study of the
Swedish Medical Research Council's procedures for hiring postdocs that was
published in Nature in 1997, Christine Wenner_s and Agnes Wold discovered
that women had to be two-and-a-half times as productive as men to obtain
the same scores from evaluators. Only 8 percent of all women received
positions, compared with 25 percent of men. Had the research council
awarded postdocs to women equitably, the quality of the new hires could
have increased, Alice M. Agogino pointed out." Chronicle of Higher
Education, Today's News, February 20,
2002.
Intellectual Property Rights: Progress, Profits, and Pitfalls, by Richard Scheffler and Marcus Harvey. Last November, the Berkeley Faculty Association/American Association of University Professors (AAUP) held a one-day conference on the intellectual property rights of university faculty. It was designed around two trends with immense potential to alter the academic workplace. The first trend is the expanded possibilities for distance education brought about by new and evolving technologies; the second, the increasing reliance on private money to support university research. In the brief time that has elapsed since our conference, the terrain has shifted sharply. The nature and velocity of that shift suggest the advisability of proceeding more judiciously than has heretofore been the case with the restructuring of higher education. . . evertheless, the potential for higher education -- whether in California or elsewhere -- to be marketed online remains. What we have now that we did not have before is some time to catch our breath and reflect on the possibilities for distance education. If we use this breathing space to move the focus of discussion from profitability to pedagogy, we will be on the right track. As Alice M. Agogino (Co-Chair, E-Berkeley Implementation Task Force, UC Berkeley ) stressed during her presentation at our conference, there are myriad ways in which increasing the use of digital technology in the classroom can facilitate and improve our teaching.
Forging Library
Partnerships in the Networked Age,"Alice Agogino and Lee Zia
worked together on a presentation for the 'Forging Library Partnerships'
conference on the Berkeley campus on November 2, 2001
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/LAUC/Partner/ A copy of the slides can be
found at www.smete.org/about_smete/publication.php. Paul Duguid, co-author
with John Seely Brown of The Social Life of Information, gave the Keynote
talk on 'Partners in Time'. Key questions addressed by Agogino and others
in the 'Successful Partnering' panel were: --What are the challenges
facing libraries now? What will they be 20 years from now? --Whatx kind of
partnerships are feasible and beneficial? How to initiate and maintain a
successful partnership? --What are lessons learned from collaborative
projects and programs that have prospered (or failed)? --How must
libraries and librarians change?" NSDL Whiteboard Report, Issue #13, December 2001.
New
online science and technology education library launched,
Engineering News, September 17, 2001.
Campus
moves to enact new diversity measures. Article on the Chancellor's
Task Force on the Recruitment and Retention of Women and Underrepresented
Minority Faculty. I served as a member of this task force.
New
online science and technology education library launched,
Engineering News, September 17, 2001.
As a public outreach effort, over 1 million names were collected and placed on the STARDUST spacecraft,which will visit Comet Wild 2 in 2004. . . . Mercedes Agogino on the list.
CU-BOULDER
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING SCHEDULES DEAN FINALISTS' INTERVIEWS. Related
article: "The
top choice for the dean of the CU-Boulder College of Engineering and
Applied Science, Alice Agogino, has turned down UCB's offer."
UC
Berkeley's Graduate School of Education Commencement 2001. Alice
Agogino was proud to hood Ann Mckenna for a Ph.D. from the SESAME (Studies
in Engineering, Science, and Mathematics Education). Agogino was honored
to meet Mary Eunice Romero, another Ph.D. graduating and a member of the
Cochiti Pueblo tribe.
National SMETE Digital
Library Releases Beta Portal Site. See: www.smete.org.
New article in the National Partnership for Advanced Comupational
Infrastructure: Archives, Vol. 5, Issue 6, March 2001.
Berdahl
pledges support for women scientists.
Nine
university leaders meet to address declining rates of women faculty
nationwide. Also in the
MIT News, Jan. 30, 2001.
The
Chancellor's Outstanding Staff Awards 2000.
"Poster
series celebrates women's achievements in engineering". and more.
Summer
2000 Faculty Technology Program.
Services
for creating course websites and linking to the Schedule of Classes.
A
practical setting for experiential learning about supply chains: Siemens
brief case game supply chain simulator Case study builds on case study
method and Kolb model of learning as described by Agogino and Wood, 1994.
From
Desks to Desktops: Faculty Transform Traditional Classrooms Using
Cutting-Edge Internet Technology
Youth Competition
Promotes Researc: Students shine in science contest. The Daily
online Californian, 1999.
Berkeley Faculty Aid
All-Female Academy. The Daily online Californian, 1999.
Roscoe
and Elizabeth Hughes Chair in Mechanical Engineering.
Celebrating
Women Role Models. In honor of Women's History Month, Berkeleyan
interviews campus women leaders about their women role models.
New
associate deans oversee key programs in engineering.
Berkeleyan
Awards, February 3, 1999.Alice Agogino, professor of mechanical
engineering and associate dean for special programs in the College of
Engineering, has been named to the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Chair in
Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests include intelligent
learning systems, information retrieval and data mining and artificial
intelligence.
The 11th Digital Be-In
on Jan. 9, 1999 at the SOMAR Gallary in San Francisco featured talks on
"body mind & cyberspace" and announced the launch of the Drug Peace Campaign. Speakers included
John Perry Barlow, David Borden, Chris Conrad, Bruce Eisner, Dale
Gieringer, Michael Gosney, Mike Gray, Ken Keesey, Palph Metzer, Mikki
Norris, Jane Piper and Bob Wallace. John Perry Barlow introduced a
surprise appearance by the Merry
Pranksters. All with 21st century music and techno-organic vibrations.
Joseph
Esherick, Bay Area Architect, Dies at 83. Escherick was the architect
for my house and founder of the
architectural firm of Esherick Homsey Dodge and Davis.
MESA DAY 98:
MESA Cracks the Mystery of Engineering for Young Students.
Technology:
Talking About a Revolution.
Engineering
and business students turn creative ideas into practical products.
Alice
Agogino, ME, and doctoral student Ann McKenna won a Best Overall Paper
award at the ASEE 1998 conference.
New
Product Trade Show at Haas on Saturday, December 12.
Developing
New Products at the Haas School and Engineering
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION:
Ban Has Mixed Impact on Texas, California Grad Schools. "Disciplinary diversity.
The mixed picture in the medical schools is repeated in several other disciplines.
In UC Berkeley's engineering school, for example, underrepresented minority admissions dropped from 9% of total admissions to 6% this year.
Most of the change occurred in the school's two largest programs--electrical engineering and computer science--says Alice Agogino,
who directs the minority engineering program at Berkeley.
"When there is such a volume [of applications] to be reviewed, it means you are probably relying more on the numbers,"
she says, and the affirmative action ban "gives you less flexibility" in how those numbers are used."
Science Magazine, August 1997, Vol. 277, No. 5326, pp. 633-634.
CyberSemester
Goes to China.
Cyberbites,
Berkeleyan, 1997.
NAE
announces new members in 1997.
Professor Alice
M. Agogino is among Five Berkeley professors who have been elected members
of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the largest Berkeley
group chosen in the annual election in the past 20 years.
NAE
elects five Berkeley faculty, three alumni to membership.
Method attempts to optimize returns on design process. How can firms get the most bang from re-sources consumed during the design process? One answer is through Intelligent Real Time Design (IRTD). The methodology is outlined in
The Frontiers of Engineering, a publication by the National Academy of Engineering. The 123-page paperback contains six chapters on design re-search. Alice M. Agogino, professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, wrote the section on IRTD. The approach considers the value of the design team's time; the cost of further information gathering, analyses, or experimentation; and "time-to-market" opportunity costs. IRTD trades off the costs against the optimum design solution. The process formulates the design decision as a problem in nonlinear programming, having objectives, constraints, and probabilities for uncertainties. Agogino contends that ambiguity is largest in the early conceptual stages of design. Results of the IRTD analysis are a set of expected costs associated with the uncertainty in each design decision. Design News, Washington Beat, April 7, 1997.
High tech
teaching brings Internet, Web into College classes .
Agogino
to spearhead College's efforts in distance learning, instructional
technology.
Celebrating
Technology
I was quoted in a Washington Post article on December 28, 1996 titled:
"Colleges Compete for Minority Students By Helping Them Achieve".
University officials said the small pool of qualified minority applicants in the state, along with growing recruiting campaigns by private colleges for them, warrants more drastic action. "We're really trying to expand our outreach efforts,"
said Alice Agogino, the associate dean of UC-Berkeley's College of Engineering. "Getting minority students has become extremely competitive."
Intelligent Sensor: Alice Agogino, Kai Goebel, Satnam Alag. Newsletter article in
Intellimotion, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1996, pp. 6-7.
What Killed Jerry
Garcia (Editorial) , San Francisco Chronicle, August 16, 1995.
Synthesizing
Engineering and Business Skills, Haas Week, Haas School of Business.
Berkeley
Scientists (and Engineers) Present the Case for Federal Funding for
Research, Berkeleyan, 1995.
"Refreshing Curricula: To cut down on dropouts, U.S. engineering schools are devising lively courses that emphasize hands-on design and teamwork," Spectrum, IEEE, March 1992, pp. 31-35.
The Pangboche Hand
"In 1991, in conjunction with Coleman's research, it was discovered that the Slick expedition consultant, an American anthropologist by the name of George Agogino, had retained samples of the Yeti hand. The NBC program "Unsolved Mysteries" obtained samples and determined they were similar to human tissue, but not human, and could only verify they were "near human." After the broadcast of the program, the entire hand was stolen from the Pangboche monastery, and reportedly disappeared into a private collection via the illegal underground in the sale of antiquities. George Agogino, before his death on September 11, 2000, transferred his important files on the Pangboche Yeti hand to Loren Coleman.", Wikipedia entry. Also see:
The Yeti Hand, from Loren's Cryptozoo News.
One of my first public talks after joining the UC Berkeley faculty was at
Claremont McKenna College on November 11, 1986, titled:
"Knowledge-Based Systems: Applications, Potential, and Limitations".
The other speakers during this session
on
Artificial Intelligence: Abstract Concepts and Real Applications were
James Flanagan and Donald Norman.
I ran for
State Assembly in California in 1982 and lost miserably. But I did get 3,560 votes.
Explorer XI Experiment on Cosmic Gamma Rays, research publication co-authored by my mother, Prof. Emeritus of Physics Mercedes Agogino. In Astrophysical Journal, vol. 141, 1965, p. 845.
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