News

• Oct. 19, 2016: Development Engineering awarded $3 million from National Science Foundation, Berkeley News.
• Oct. 19, 2016: NSF funds new projects to explore graduate education models, NSF Press Release.
• Dec. 16, 2015: These shape-shifting robots are designed to be able to roll around on the moon, TomoNews.
• Dec. 15, 2015: Learning to Let Go in New Product Development, Haas School of Business News.
• Nov. 23, 2015: Alice M. Agogino Honored by ASME for Furthering Engineering Design Education, ASME Press Release.
• Oct. 5, 2015: Shape-shifting robots? Child’s play, Berkeley News.
• Oct. 1, 2015: Exploring Space with Shape-Shifting Robots, KQED Science.
• Sep. 23, 2015: A new kind of development professional: The development engineer, devex.
• Jul. 2015: Alice Agogino: Trailblazer in Mechanical Engineering, Blum Center for Developing Economies.
• Mar. 7, 2015: A Lightness of Being:Space vehicles that can operate in the ultra low-gravity on asteroids and comets are having to employ novel locomotive systems, Economist.
• Mar. 3, 2015: A Robot That Collapses Under Pressure (In a Good Way), Wired Magazine.
• Sept. 16, 2014: Campus interdisciplinary program brings innovative perspective to engineering doctoral students, Daily Californian.
• Sep. 12, 2014: Defining development engineering: Berkeley faculty and students are creating a new academic field, Berkeley Engineering.
• Aug. 28, 2014: This Weird Tumbleweed Robot Might Change Planetary Exploration: A Rolling Sphere Of Rods And Cables Being Developed By Nasa Takes A Lickin’ And Keeps On Tickin’, Popular Science.
• Feb. 26, 2014: NASA’s Latest Robot: A rolling tangle of rods that can take a beating, Wired Magazine.
• Nov. 22, 2013: Work out to charge up, Berkeley Engineering.
• Oct. 3, 2013: Social stigma shows in STEM fields, Daily Californian.
• May 31, 2013: New exhibit at Lawrence Hall of Science helps youths learn engineering skills – Design Quest offers family fun, education in solving designing challenges, Pleasanton Weekly.
• Jun. 24, 2013: A new design for engineering education, Daily Californian.
• Apr. 6, 2013: Engineer Role Models—real and toy, howtosmile, Lawrence Hall of Science.
• Jan. 28, 2013: The making of a ‘lifetime mentor award’ winner, Berkeley News.
• Jan. 22, 2013: Alice M. Agogino Wins 2012 AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award, AAAS News.
• Sep. 24, 2012: Collaboration between students, California Indian nation culminates in development of new houses, Daily Californian.
• Sep. 24, 2012: Students’ yurt-style design embraced by Pinoleville Pomo Nation, Phys.org News.
• Apr. 9, 2010: Revenge of the Nerds: How Barbie Got Her Geek On – Computer Engineers Hijack Vote on Career for Doll – Little Girls Wanted Anchorwoman, The Wall Street Journal.
• Mar. 25, 2009: Role Models and Mentors, Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Jan. 1, 2009: A Thrill Ride, Berkeley Engineering.
• Oct. 2, 2008: A Real-Life Lesson in Design, Berkeley Engineering.
• Sep. 2007: Click. Build. Learn. Prism Magazine.
• Sep. 18, 2006: Broad National Effort Urgently Needed to Maximize Potential of Women Scientists and Engineers in Academia, National Academies Release.
• May 31, 2006: Chancellor’s Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence, UC Berkeley News.
• May 3, 2005: Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative starts to take shape – Academic leadership welcomes research proposals from all disciplines to advance this crucial institutional effort, UC Berkeley News.
• May 24, 2004: NSF Names Eight Distinguished Teaching Scholars – Agency’s top awards for teaching and research cover the “nuts and bolts” to pure theory, NSF Press Release.
• Apr. 19, 2000: From Desks to Desktops: Faculty Transform Traditional Classrooms Using Cutting-Edge Internet Technology, UC Berkeley News.
• Mar. 10, 1999: Celebrating Women Role Models, UC Berkeley News.
• Feb. 24, 1997: Five UC Berkeley professors elected members of the National Academy of Engineering, National Academies’ Press Release.

Social Media, Photos and Videos

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/agogino
• Blog: BEST Lab
• YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdSImbyVL4QfTStMd_1y3bg
• BEST Lab Videos & Photos
• My Photo Collections; also Ghana, Botswana, Zambia
• Photo Albums:
  • Africa Research and Safari, 2016
  • BEST Lab 30 Year Reunion, 2015
  • NASA Ames-Dava Newman Demo
  • Berkeley Tensegrity, Rev. 3
  • Final Tradeshow for ME110, Spring 2015
  • Canadian Consulting Engineers, Summer 2005
  • 2004 “Deep Dive” with IDEO
  • Mexico, Summer 2004
  • Denali Park, Alaska, 2001
  • Arianne, Einstein and Me at AAAS 2001
  • Coastal Marin County, December 2000
  • New Year 2000 in New Zealand
  • Visit to Agogino Cave, Spring 1999
  • 11th Digital Be-In at SOMAR Gallery in San Francisco, January 9, 1999
  • Me and Al Gore on Hawaii, January 1999
  • Me and Jack Williamson, 1998
  • Big Sur and La Ventanna Inn, December 1998
  • National Academy of Engineering Induction Ceremony, 1997
  • International Symposium on Engineering Education and Evaluation, Osaka, Japan – November 1996
  • ASEE Conference, June 1994, Edmonton, Canada
  • Hypermedia in Vaasa, Finland, 1994
  • Afro, 1970’s

Tribute to my father, George A. Agogino

 

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Updated 7 Jan. 2017