UC Provost Jud King
To Retire This Month

King

C. Judson King, who began a four-decade career at the University of California as an assistant professor of chemical engineering on the Berkeley campus, announced yesterday that he is retiring after eight years as systemwide provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, effective July 27, to become director of the UC Berkeley Center for Studies in Higher Education on a part-time, post-retirement appointment. (King has also served on the research staff of Berkeley Lab’s Environmental Energy Technologies Division and is a faculty senior scientist here). Full story.

Government Computers
For Authorized Use Only

In a recent letter to DOE Secretary Spencer Abraham, U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein, Orrin Hatch, Jon Kyl, and Patrick Leahy expressed the concern that "peer-to-peer file sharing allows for large scale copyright violations and the widespread presence of pornographic materials on taxpayer-purchased government computers, decreases productivity of government workers, and most importantly, puts sensitive government information at risk." Go here to read the letter. Employees are reminded that Lab computers and networks are only for authorized use, regardless of file-sharing methods. The policy can be found here.