Posted by Jill Cowan on Thursday, October 29, 2009 07:04 pm
You see all those people above, leaning seemingly inexplicably to their left? You know why they’re leaning? It’s because they’re stoked. Super, super stoked. You know why they’re stoked? Because they just signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding … and Friendship … for Everyone!
OK, maybe we made those last bits up, but they did sign on to a very special partnership with the Building Trades Council of Alameda County that will allow four lucky electrical apprentices to try their hands at their craft in the high stakes electrical world of a national laboratory.
And all under the glaring lights of scrutiny focused unflinchingly upon them by reality television cameras. Do they have what it takes? ONLY TIME WILL TELL. OK, we made that up too. But seriously, it sounds like a pretty cool program. Way to streamline resources, Berkeley Lab and Alameda County!
Image Source: Roy Kaltschmidt, LBL site Berkeley Lab Launches Apprenticeship Program for Electrical Resources [LBL]
Posted by Jill Cowan on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 04:19 pm
Hah. Did you catch that Heinz ketchup pun? Because it was definitely intended. Oh mans. That was a good one, if we do say so ourselves. Ahem. Anyway, moving on …
Posted by Jill Cowan on Sunday, July 05, 2009 09:48 pm
If you wanna be Lawrence Berkeley Lab’s new director, it looks like all you’ve got to do is get with Mark Yudof’s friends–all 11 of them. OK, so Mark Yudof might actually have more than 11 friends (according to Twitter, he has 142), but 11 is the number of dudes on the search committee for the lab’s new director. We wish we could report that it has an awesome name, like “Team Awesome” or “The Seekers” or “The Gatekeepers of the Torrent of Shame” or something, but as far as we can tell, they’re just calling it “an 11-member committee.” read more »
Posted by Scott Lucas on Saturday, September 08, 2007 09:18 pm
Between football, celebrities, and earthquakes, you’d forget that some people do some pretty cool stuff here. And we don’t mean keg stands either. No, we’re talking about cutting edge research and fascinating projects.First up, the Center for Labor Research and Education found out that it still kinda sucks to be poor. In fact, it sucks slightly more for Californians this year than last year. In its annual Labor Day reports, the CLRE folks found that real wages in the state decreased and unemployment increased for the first time in four years, that African Americans aredisproportionately unemployed or stuck in low-wage jobs and that it really, really sucks to be agrocery store worker. All the Clog can say is that going to college sure beats working for a living.Second, a team of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists and undergraduates came up with a way to help alleviate the misery in Darfur. Their solution? Better cooking stoves.Turns out that provisioning firewood is remarkably dangerous in the war-torn region. So the team came up with a low-cost, more efficient stove that will drastically cut down the amount of firewood needed to cook. We always knew expertise in lightin’ shit up would come in handy.Speaking of lightin’ it up, another team has created a small sensor that will help firefighters track blazes.From ABC:“This device is basically a radio, and on top of it is a sensor board which contains a GPS,” said U.C. Berkeley Professor Nicholas Sitar. It’s small enough to be dropped from a helicopter or plane, and spread out over a large area, these sensors would help track the speed, direction and progress of a fire. The Daily Clog applauds anything that moves us closer to working tricorders. Get on it, folks! That’s something we could really use.
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Between football, celebrities, and earthquakes, you’d forget that some people do some pretty cool stuff here. And we don’t mean keg stands either. No, we’re talking about cutting edge research and fascinating projects.First up, the 