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Forefront

The college’s semi-annual Forefront magazine was published from 1970 to 2011, showcasing major news and research. Online archive: 2002 – 2011. All issues below are available to download in PDF format.

Fall 2011 coverFall 2011

  • Artificial intelligence outsmarts the bomb
  • Found in translation
  • The new Synthetic Biology Institute
  • Janet Napolitano on tour

Spring 2011 coverSpring 2011

  • The gift of gait
  • Superstructure rising
  • Engineers respond to Japan quake and nuclear crisis
  • Boot camp for leaders

Fall 2010 coverFall 2010

  • Man of a thousand faces
  • Bob Bea: Disaster prone
  • Artificial photosynthesis gets real
  • Liberty revisited

Spring 2010 coverSpring 2010

  • Lessons in the Amazon
  • Clinton packs the house
  • Robots in the sky
  • High on high-speed rail

Fall 2009 coverFall 2009

  • Go Bear Area!
  • The big deal about small
  • Bioengineering looks ahead
  • From bacon to biofuel

Spring 2009 coverSpring 2009

  • Home safe home
  • Iraq vets’ change of assignment
  • Educating the global engineer
  • GM’s green guru hangs tough

Fall 2008 coverFall 2008

  • What’s up with cell phones?
  • Nuclear turns 50
  • Seeking clues from China’s quake
  • The smart engine is coming

Spring 2008 caoverSpring 2008

  • The tides are returning
  • Blum Center boosts Berkeley outreach
  • Tissue engineers build on nature itself
  • Hewlett-Packard’s Mr. Cool

Fall 2007 coverFall 2007

  • Green future
  • Berkeley’s piece of the computer revolution
  • Meet new COE Dean Shankar Sastry
  • California Santa Claus

Spring 2007 coverSpring 2007

  • Richard Newton: July 1951-January 2007

Fall 2006 coverFall 2006

  • Broken levees: New Orleans to Sacramento
  • New center puts Berkeley on the synthetic biology map
  • Simulated quake rocks the house
  • Can biofuels break our oil addiction?

Spring 2006 coverSpring 2006

  • Listening for signals from the past
  • Internet giants join forces with Berkeley
  • Stardust brings a comet down to earth
  • Bay Area marks 1906 quake centennial

Fall 2005 coverFall 2005

  • A nano-star is born
  • Berkeley responds to Hurricane Katrina
  • Students help housing project go solar
  • A conversation with Steve Wozniak

Spring 2005 coverSpring 2005

  • Artemisia’s promise for malaria
  • Stadium cornerstone of campus building plans
  • Students take a shot at bay bridge redesign
  • Chiao phones home from international space station

Winter 2005 coverWinter 2005

  • Jan Rabaey’s Wireless Disappearing Act
  • $42.6 million for malaria drug
  • Alumnus heads Seabees in Iraq

Fall 2004 coverFall 2004

  • Global visions for local technology
  • Clean energy generates jobs
  • Letter from the real world
  • Working 24-7 in the fight against cancer

Spring 2004 coverSpring 2004

  • Hot spots for an earthquake
  • Bone-breaking work
  • Close encounter of a cometary kind
  • WICSE celebrates 25 years

Fall 2003 coverFall 2003

  • Smart helmets on the horizon
  • Engineering breakthroughs
  • Diesel retrofit reduces soot
  • Students build robots on TV

Spring 2003 coverSpring 2003

  • Shallow lakes gasping for air
  • Revolutionizing drug delivery
  • Chang-Lin Tien’s extraordinary legacy
  • Google’s Eric Schmidt speaks

Fall 2002 coverFall 2002

  • Meet the tele-actor
  • Giving cancer the cold shoulder
  • WTC engineer revisits 9/11 tragedy
  • Down and dirty in the concrete lab

Spring 2002 coverSpring 2002

  • Women engineers navigate a changing profession
  • Fuel cell vehicle about to dawn?
  • Revisiting shaken baby syndrome
  • Engineers fill Cal Band’s brassy ranks