Pat Joseph

Berkeley

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Editor-in-Chief at California

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Squirrels Inspire Giant Leap for Robots

2 weeks ago | alumni.berkeley.edu | Pat Joseph

Nine-year-old Salto, Berkeley’s foot-tall, one-legged jumping robot, just got a new superpower: squirrel-like leaping and landing abilities. It’s an enviable achievement and the latest advance in a long collaboration between biology students in Professor Robert Full’s Poly-PEDAL Lab and engineering students in Professor Ronald Fearing’s Biomimetic Millisystems Lab.
Please Allow Him to Introduce Himself

Dec 10, 2024 | alumni.berkeley.edu | Nathalia Alcantara |Pat Joseph

Look, there he is, the new chancellor, introducing himself to freshmen on Sproul Plaza. “Hi, I’m Rich. I’m new here myself.” Well, not exactly true. He’s certainly in a new role, but with the exception of grad school at MIT (Ph.D. in economics), a six-year stint on faculty at Columbia, and two years at Goldman Sachs, Chancellor Rich Lyons ’82 has been at Berkeley since he was an undergrad himself, making him the first leader of the university since Robert Gordon Sproul to call Cal alma mater.
As It Happened - Cal Alumni Association

Dec 10, 2024 | alumni.berkeley.edu | Nathalia Alcantara |Pat Joseph

Sixty years ago, in the fall of 1964, the staff of this magazine—then called California Monthly—had the foresight to drop everything to cover a student uprising that was then roiling campus. The Free Speech Movement scarcely had a name, but the Monthly was on the job. Assistant Editor Don Kechely ’55 shot photographs, many of which are still among the most iconic and familiar images from that time.
The Motion Scientist

Dec 10, 2024 | alumni.berkeley.edu | Pat Joseph

You’re new as a professor at Berkeley, but I think I should be saying welcome back, no? Yes, I was a postdoc here for five years, working on how hummingbirds fly in adverse weather conditions, from 2010 to 2012, then again from 2013 to 2016. My academic journey began with a bachelor’s degree in Puebla, Mexico, followed by a master’s degree in the Yucatán Peninsula. I then completed my Ph.D. in Baja California, in Ensenada.
First person: Berkeley’s Dean of Admissions, Now an Ed.D. in Equity and Democracy

Dec 10, 2024 | alumni.berkeley.edu | Pat Joseph |Olufemi “Femi” Ogundele

Graduating with my doctorate from the LEAD program was an experience I’ll never forget. In my role as the dean of undergraduate admissions, I’m constantly promoting the Berkeley experience. So going to school here and working here at the same time was probably one of the greatest things I’ve ever done. Last year, the first group of freshmen that I admitted to Berkeley graduated.
Lab Animals - Cal Alumni Association

Dec 10, 2024 | alumni.berkeley.edu | Margie Cullen |Pat Joseph

A major brushfire in the Oakland Hills last October was a scarcely needed reminder of the perennial fire risk in the East Bay Hills. At Berkeley Lab, that risk is addressed, in part, with goats. Every summer, when the grass is dry, a herd of 300 or so is brought in from Goats R Us in Orinda to munch away at the undergrowth on the steep hills of the 200-acre federal property. It’s a low-tech method to protect one of the highest tech facilities in the world. Why not use machinery instead?
Palestine 101 - Cal Alumni Association

Dec 4, 2024 | alumni.berkeley.edu | Pat Joseph |Emma Silvers

When Sara*, a third-year business and psychology student at UC Berkeley, took an undergraduate history class called “Palestine and the Palestinians: A Modern History” last year, she wasn’t expecting much of the curriculum to surprise her. Her father grew up in Palestine, and moved to the U.S. in 1987 to finish his studies when Birzeit University, the top college in Palestine, was closed during the first Intifada.
Exit Interview with the Chancellor

Jun 27, 2024 | alumni.berkeley.edu | Pat Joseph

One of my favorite quotes from Clark Kerr, Berkeley’s first chancellor, is his bit about how “The university is so many things to so many different people that it must, of necessity, be partially at war with itself.” I imagined it was something that anyone who had ever led the institution would instantly agree with. As you’ll see in the interview that follows, not Carol Christ. Berkeley’s eleventh chancellor, and the first woman in the position, didn’t see it that way.
More Berkeley on the Jukebox

Jun 10, 2024 | alumni.berkeley.edu | Pat Joseph

Our Fall/Winter 2023 issue featured a 21-song salute to Berkeley’s musical roots and its influence on the culture at large. It was a lot of fun putting the mix together and many of you responded with songs and artists that you would have included. So, in the interest of creativity and collaboration, here’s Volume II of Berkeley on the Jukebox, which of course has an accompanying Spotify playlist here.
2024 Spring/Summer

Jun 3, 2024 | alumni.berkeley.edu | Hayden Royster |Pat Joseph |Nathalia Alcantara |Leah Worthington

May 1 Special guests include Dr. Tsu-Jae King Liu, Dean of the UC Berkeley College of Engineering and Colette Patt ’85, Ph.D. ’95, Assistant Dean for DEIBJ, UC Berkeley College of Computing. Learn more