# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
Space Enterprise at Berkeley Gears Up to Launch Eureka-2 in the Mojave Desert

# data[].attributes.headline
Eureka-2; Liquid Bi-propellant Rocket Engine by Space Enterprises at Berkeley 

# data[].attributes.subject
Eureka-2; Liquid Bi-propellant Rocket Engine by Space Enterprises at Berkeley 

# data[].attributes.body
Co-founded in October 2016, Space Enterprise at Berkeley is a student run liquid-fuel rocket team dedicated to achieving spaceflight and developing rocket technologies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Despite being relatively young, SEB is one of the most ambitious college rocket teams in the world working towards achieving spaceflight with a liquid-fueled rocket. Working toward this dream, SEB launched multiple test-bed rockets and gained a wide array of technical knowledge and skill in rocket subsystems such as composite airframe manufacturing, in-flight data acquisition, and propulsion.

As a successor to the first liquid bipropellant rocket designed and built by Space Enterprise at Berkeley, Eureka-2 is planned to fly soon at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry launch site in Southern California. Stay tuned for more videos, and learn more here! https://www.berkeleyse.org/eureka-2

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
This project aims to develop a satellite system with a large parabolic mirror that collects solar energy for in-space manufacturing. We leverage direct solar radiation to enhance radiative conversion efficiencies up to 300% above that of surface systems. With precisely controlled satellite positioning systems, collected energy can drive concentrated-power tasks such as alloying and crystallographic restructuring in a vacuum/microgravity climate.

# data[].attributes.headline
Parabolic Mirror-Powered Satellite System - Liam McHugh

# data[].attributes.subject
Parabolic Mirror-Powered Satellite System - Liam McHugh

# data[].attributes.headline
Exploring the map collection at the Earth Sciences & Map Library - Posted by Karen Pfeffer

# data[].attributes.subject
Exploring the map collection at the Earth Sciences & Map Library - Posted by Karen Pfeffer

# data[].attributes.body
Starting last semester our student team at the Earth Sciences & Map Library have been curating displays exploring the variety of maps in our collection based on different themes. In this latest display, each student shares a current map that they love and the theme is inspired by Valentine's Day. Linked is the virtual exhibit but you can view these maps in person in the atrium of McCone Hall.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Beautiful  Maps: Februrary 2024 Staff Picks

# data[].attributes.headline
Oral History of Yuriko Kamiya: A Year in Infamy

# data[].attributes.subject
Oral History of Yuriko Kamiya: A Year in Infamy

# data[].attributes.body
"Oral History of Yuriko Kaimiya" aims to shed light on the experiences of families during World War II Japanese American internment. Through Yuriko Kamiya's life, the project utilizes documentary-style oral history, curated photographs, and personal narratives to explore the impacts of the Pearl Harbor bombing on Japanese Americans. It provides a nuanced understanding of the year-long transitional period leading to three-year permanent detention and the lasting effects on Japanese American individuals and communities.

The project was created by Miya Rosenthal for CWR4B "Images of History" during Fall 2022. The project received the Immigration Research Creative Prize awarded by UC Berkeley Arts + Design Initiative/Future Histories Lab, and has been presented at the Oral History Association's 2023 conference.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Oral History of Yuriko Kamiya: A Year in Infamy (Updated)

# data[].attributes.body
Students in the Buzz Studio, a City and Regional Planning Course, created a walking tour of the Fruitvale district highlighting the role of pollinators in human and natural history. Working with community partner Peralta Hacienda Historic Park, they did research and led visitors from the Fruitvale BART station to the historic park and its gardens.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Pollinators are small but mighty creatures. More than 8 5% of the world's flowering plants rely on bees, birds, butterflies, bats, and many kinds of insects to reproduce. In turn, people rely on them to pollinate one -third of the food crops that feed the world. Because of rapid urbanization, habitat loss and degradation, and widespread pesticide use in industrial agriculture , pollinators in many parts of the wor ld are threatened. At the same time, pollinators can thrive in cities - transforming them into pollinator 'hotspots' if we take steps to accommodate and support them .

In Spring of 2022, the University of California's College of Environmental Design and its Department of City & Regional Planning partnered with the nonprofit organization Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park, which manages this City of Oakland public park and mounts its many community programs. The 6-acre park, opened in 1996, is a major historical site in the city, occupied over time by the Ohlone people, a Spanish land grant holders, and after the Mexican Revolution, Californios. Through a graduate course - nicknamed 'Buzz Studio' - we sought to explore the ways in which Peralta Hacienda Historical Park and its mostly hardscaped neighborhood in the Fruitvale District might create more green space for both people and pollinators. The Buzz Studio asked the question: working with the park and its neighbors, how could a focus on pollinators and their habitat support a larger and more diverse population of pollinators while simultaneously making the park and its adjacent streets greener, cooler, and more walkable?

Buzz Studio students conducted research about the park, its neighborhood, and the larger Fruitvale District, to understand the context for planning to protect pollinators and increase neighborhood greenspace, and to offer possibilities for the future. This website presents the results of this research.

Part I narrates key aspects of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park and Fruitvale District's social history and contemporary context; the multiple and cross-cutting equity and environmental justice issues that characterize the Fruitvale and park neighborhood; and the transformation of the area's ecology given the growth of Oakland. Part I also explores possibilities to enhance greenspace for people and pollinators, from expanding the park's existing pollinator-friendly plantings to identifying opportunities - large and small - for providing greenspace for both pollinators and people in the park's neighborhood.

Part II offers ideas for the future, including the creation of 'Pollinator Districts' in the Peralta Hacienda Historical Park neighborhood and local schools; educational programs for middle school students on pollinator ecology and human impacts on pollinator biodiversity; community science programs for high school students, enabling them to monitor the park's pollinator populations; and prototype designs for a "Fruitvale Bart to Peralta Hacienda Historical Park Trail." This trail could introduce residents and visitors alike to the social histories and diverse cultures of the Fruitvale District; the social and environmental justice challenges faced by residents and the community organizations that work to address them; the District's historical ecology and in particular its pollinator ecology; and how - even in a dense city - communities can nurture native pollinators upon which we all depend.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
About Buzz Studio Pollinators are small but mighty creatures. More than 85% of the world's flowering plants rely on bees, birds, butterflies, bats, and many kinds of insects to reproduce. In turn, people rely on them to pollinate one-third of the food crops that feed the world. Because of rapid

# data[].attributes.body
Students in Siteworks: Understanding Place through Design and Performance--Landscape Architecture 154/Theater 114-- created a site-specific performance exploring the relationship of humans and nature at the Albany Bulb, a former landfill known for guerrilla art. This video documents that performance. The course was taught by Erika Chong Shuch, Ghigo DiTommaso and Susan Moffat. A diary of the way the performance was created over the course of the semester is available here: https://albanybulbsiteworks.wordpress.com/

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Siteworks: A Surprise Party was performed at the Albany Bulb by students of LDARCH 154/THEATER 114 Siteworks: Understanding Place through Design and Performance on April 19, 2018. This is a project of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative at UC Berkeley and generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Before creating this performance, students studied the physical and emotional landscapes of the Albany Bulb and made detailed maps and sketches. They used methods from landscape architecture as well as from dance and theater to explore this unique site. Then they invited an audience to share their discoveries.

Teaching Faculty: Erika Chong Shuch, Ghigo DiTomasso, Susan Moffat and Annie Danis (GSR)

Student Creators and Performers: Aniston-May Breslin, Helen Jiang, Amy Loo, Tiffany Meng, Patricia Midy, Ricardo Montali, Kathleen O'Connor, Moira Peckham, Hannah Ricker, Natalia Rico, Briana Salmon, Daniel Sanchez, Grace Treffinger, Michael Qi, and Peihan Qian

# data[].attributes.body
A Day on Angel Island was a day of performances and installations addressing immigration and incarceration that was created by students for an audience of the California Preservation Foundation annual conference. The audience was led on a performative tour of the Angel Island Immigration Station detention barracks, where immigrants, many from Asia, were detained under the Chinese Exclusion Act and other racist laws. The maps and photos on this website explain how the performances conveyed the history that had happened at the site. This project was part of A Year on Angel Island and the performances were created by the Angel Island Townsend Working Group and Theater 203. More info at futurehistories.berkeley.edu/angel-island.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Hosted by Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
California State Parks
UC Berkeley Arts + Design
Future Histories Lab

# data[].attributes.body
As one part of a year-long multidisciplinary arts and curriculum initiative called A Year on Angel Island, students were recognized with prizes for the videos and essays they created about immigration for courses affiliated with the project. This page links to those projects. The full Angel Island Project can be seen at futurehistories.berkeley.edu/angel-island/.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Sponsored by Future Histories Lab and Berkeley Arts + Design As part of A Year on Angel Island
Congratulations to the students awarded A Year on Angel Island's Undergraduate Immigration Project Prizes! More than 35 courses in 16 departments across campus including Architecture, Ethnic Studies, History, Music, Legal Studies, and Theater, Dance and Performance Studies are affiliated with A Year on Angel Island. Students in those classes and beyond were invited to submit research papers, essays and creative projects related to our themes of migration, incarceration and belonging.

Our panel of faculty and graduate student judges were blown away by the thoughtfulness and creativity of the submissions. We invite you to check out the links to the essays and videos by the winners below. They show the profound ways students combined their personal experiences of immigration (by themselves or their families) with archival research, oral history, fieldwork, and critical thinking about museum and media representation.

We are proud of these students and thank their faculty mentors and the panel of judges for their work.
Written for History 128AC, California, the West, and the World: From Gold and
Guano to Google and the New Gilded Age, Professor Mark Brilliant, Graduate
Student Instructor Zoe Silverman
Research Prize: Justin Garlepp

In his research paper, Garlepp analyzed the way that an exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California on immigration failed to distinguish adequately between the orderly experience of many post-1965 immigrants with the traumatic, involuntary migrations of refugees like his family, who fled the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Garlepp is a junior majoring in bioengineering.

The chaotic flight from Vietnam, the US federal government's heavy involvement in the migration process, and the refugees' ambivalence toward migration all set their experience apart from the ordered, deliberate view of migration advanced by the exhibit. The immigration experience of Vietnamese refugees differs enough from the interpretation emphasized in OMCA's Arrivals that it warrants clear delineation within the exhibit.
Justin Garlepp, "Critique of OMCA's Arrivals Exhibit: The Distinct Social History of Vietnamese Refugees"

Personal Essay Prize: Helina Li

Helina's thoughtful, openhearted essay described the experiences of immigrating from Guangzhou at age six and her vivid childhood memories of learning English and of trying to maintain her Cantonese language and culture. Li is a first-year majoring in computer science and English.

But how was I any different from a tourist? How could I lay claim to those mountains and monuments, those rivers and basins engraved in the little red book, whose names I never learned, whose people I might never know?
Helina Li, "A World Without Borders"
Created for College Writing R4B: Images of History, Dr. Patricia Steenland
Creative Project Prize: Miya Rosenthal

Rosenthal's narrative video combined oral histories with photographs from the National Archives and other documentary materials to tell the story of her grandmother's incarceration as a child during World War II. Like more than 120,000 other Japanese Americans, her grandmother was incarcerated due to race-based government policies. Rosenthal is a freshman planning to major in media studies.
Created for CalTV
Current Affairs Prize: Mariana Garcia

Garcia, a student journalist who carries her Canon EOS M50 camera wherever she goes, was on a trip to El Paso with her family when they encountered crowds of migrants who had just crossed the border. Garcia interviewed migrants from Venezuela about the hopes that fueled their arduous journey and produced a short video news story for CalTV. Garcia, the daughter of a Mexican immigrant, is a sophomore majoring in political science.

Thank you to our judges:
Shelby Kendrick, PhD student, Architecture (History, Theory, & Society) (Contest organizer)
Laura Belik, PhD candidate, Architecture (History, Theory, & Society)
Harvey Dong, Continuing Lecturer, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies
Xander Lenc, PhD candidate, Geography
Luis Amaya Madrid, PhD student, Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Leila Mire, PhD student, Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
Susan Moffat, Creative Director, Future Histories Lab
Lisa Wymore, Professor, Theater, Dance & Performance Studies

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Undergraduate Immigration Project Prize Winners - Future Histories Lab

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Sponsored by Future Histories Lab and Berkeley Arts + Design As part of A Year on Angel Island Congratulations to the students awarded A Year on Angel Island's Undergraduate Immigration ... Read moreUndergraduate Immigration Project Prize Winners

# data[].attributes.body
Monument to Extraction was a physical and virtual multimedia history and art project created by students in Art 160/City Planning 190: Ghosts and Visions, Using Physical Installations and Augmented Reality to Tell History and Imagine Futures, taught by Susan Moffat. The project includes a website with 1)student storytelling on California environmental and labor history; 2)links to a downloadable audio walking tour of a series of 8 art installations at the Albany Bulb landfill that use "borrowed landscapes" to tell history; 3) a standalone podcast of the audio of the tour; 4)clickable links within each story demonstrating the augmented reality element of the tour; and 5) a virtual 360-degree tour that can be done without visiting the site.

# data[].attributes.headline
[Minsook Kim, Korean program] Promoting student interaction and community through Blogging 

# data[].attributes.subject
[Minsook Kim, Korean program] Promoting student interaction and community through Blogging 

# data[].attributes.body
https://jshin1462.wixsite.com/mysite/season

During the pandemic, my intermediate Korean for heritage speakers course (K10BX, Fall 2020) incorporated blogging for active sharing of their personal experiences to promote student interaction in the online setting. The primary goal was to cultivate a sense of community among students while enhancing their language skills. Students showcased each lesson's content as personal narratives according to the specific instruction for each lesson. Given that the intermediate textbook delves into various aspects of life in Korea such as travel, fashion, housing, and transportation, blogging served as an ideal platform for students to share their personal experiences and online research as heritage learners. Students were encouraged to envision themselves living in Korea through hypothetical scenarios. For instance, in the context of housing, students were tasked with locating an apartment in Seoul and presenting the listing along with their reasons for selecting a particular option.

# data[].attributes.headline
[Minsook Kim, Korean program] Discovering heritage and culture through field learning (#1 East Asian Library on campus) 

# data[].attributes.subject
[Minsook Kim, Korean program] Discovering heritage and culture through field learning (#1 East Asian Library on campus) 

# data[].attributes.body
Having experienced the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of AI, students desire hands-on learning and a sense of community. In response, elementary Korean for heritage speakers (K1BX) implemented field trips as chances to apply language skills about primary resources in a context while fostering a sense of belonging through shared experiences. This digital storytelling was created to showcase both linguistic progress and inquiries and observations during the field trip. Students also shared their digital projects with families and other fellow Korean-heritage students on campus to expand their outreach efforts. In this video, she features the field trip to East Asian library instead. She expressed that she did not know how many Korean historical treasures we have in the library on campus. Especially, she felt grateful to learn Korean at Cal after seeing the first Korean textbook used at UC Berkeley in 1953 during the Japanese occupation of Korea.

See more details of this project at

https://teaching.berkeley.edu/discovery-project-experiential-field-learning-language-courses-community-outreach

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Yooju Choi Digital Storytelling Project.MOV

# data[].attributes.headline
[Minsook Kim, Korean program] Discovering heritage and culture through field learning (#2  BAMPFA) 

# data[].attributes.subject
[Minsook Kim, Korean program] Discovering heritage and culture through field learning (#2  BAMPFA) 

# data[].attributes.body
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CtpHKauvLXHcfNpwsRucP-HAcVbOjffr/view?usp=sharing

This student is also from the same K1BX class (elementary Korean for heritage speakers (K1BX). He features a different field trip to BAMPFA. He shares what he observed in the BAMPFA. Especially, he mentioned that a painting he saw in the TV show was at the BAMPFA and it was his favorite piece in the exhibition and why he liked it.

# data[].attributes.headline
Caldera - Space Technologies and Rocketry

# data[].attributes.subject
Caldera - Space Technologies and Rocketry

# data[].attributes.body
The inaugural launch of our Stage Separation rocket (SSEP) took place in September 2022, marking a significant milestone in our research and development efforts. This pioneering endeavor, affectionately named "Pinkbeary," served as a proof-of-concept project to assess the efficacy of a two-stage airframe design and a spring-actuated separation mechanism, which is triggered by the detonation of pyro bolts. Notably, this endeavor showcased novel recovery methods and airframe architectures, firmly establishing UC Berkeley's prominence in the field of successful staging rocket launches. The SSEP achieved an impressive apogee of approximately 2,377 feet.

Building upon this initial triumph, our team is currently immersed in the second iteration of our stage separation project series (SSEP2 - Caldera), which will feature a stage separation rocket competing on the international stage. Anticipated to reach a projected apogee of 10,000 feet, this forthcoming mission will incorporate enhanced structures, advanced recovery techniques, and an exciting new glider payload. To ensure meticulous planning and evaluation, we are preparing to conduct a critical design review for the rocket in the near future.

In parallel, our dedicated team is diligently working on a reflight of the Pinkbeary project to rigorously test the competition staging mechanism. This eagerly awaited flight is scheduled for September 3rd, 2023. We invite you to stay tuned for updates leading up to the launch, as we embark on this thrilling chapter of our scientific exploration.

# data[].attributes.headline
ALULA  - Space Technologies and Rocketry

# data[].attributes.subject
ALULA  - Space Technologies and Rocketry

# data[].attributes.body
Our first-ever flyable liquid-powered rocket is currently in the testing and optimization phase! Our airframe and recovery teams have completed their preliminary designs and are working to physically test their conceptual component assemblies on the ground, validating our analysis of in-flight structural dynamics. On the propulsion front, we’re working on scaling our hotfire-tested LOX/ethanol development engine into the flight vehicle space and energy requirements envelope(integrated hotfire tests ahead!). The avionics team is shifting focus from propulsion ground support build-out to flight module design, including Printed Circuit Board component/stack optimization, onboard harnessing and power distribution.

As we continue to integrate subscale projects between each subsystem, we’re working hard to maintain thrust and flight simulation accuracy to reflect the predicted physics of launch.

# data[].attributes.headline
 Posted by panelist Pat Steenland ~ Blooming Minds and Desert Flowers

# data[].attributes.subject
 Posted by panelist Pat Steenland ~ Blooming Minds and Desert Flowers

# data[].attributes.body
UC Berkeley student Neesha Chockalingam investigates the frequently overlooked experiences of teenagers in Japanese internment camps. Through oral histories, poems, and journal entries, Chockalingam uncovers how interned teenagers overcame ever-present and systemic challenges faced in internment. This project is the culmination of their research and reflection on resilience in the desert.

Learn more here! https://express.adobe.com/page/fkuAAzv654qHT/

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Created by Neesha Chockalingam

foreword

Throughout the months of this class, I've read pages upon pages of the injustices that were committed by the US government and American citizens toward Japanese-Americans. I've watched interview after interview of elders recounting their experiences as a child in the relocation centers, and I've read newspaper headlines plastered with racial slurs and yellow journalism.

Nearly every aspect of the internment camps and the period surrounding them has been digitally archived, thanks to the publication of these journals, oral histories, and periodicals. But for some reason, there was a group of individuals whose documented experiences were virtually nonexistent in my initial searches: teenagers.

# data[].attributes.body
1. Please start your post in the appropriate category by clicking the little plus sign below the category title.

2. In the subject of the post, please include a short title for your project, and your name!

3. A picture / video of your project

4. In the text box, please include a 100-word blurb introducing your work, as well as a couple sentences about yourself :)

If you have any questions, please email evelynthorne@berkeley.edu or 23suna18@berkeley.edu! We're so excited to see your work.

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
 A drawing in Stanley Hayami’s diary depicts the harrowing conditions in a concentration camp where Japanese Americans were imprisoned. (Image from the Japanese American National Museum’s Stanley Hayami diary collection) 

# data[].attributes.headline
Posted by panelist Pat Steenland ~ Erased: An Exploration of Queer Japanese Americans’ Experience During the Internment Period

# data[].attributes.subject
Posted by panelist Pat Steenland ~ Erased: An Exploration of Queer Japanese Americans’ Experience During the Internment Period

# data[].attributes.body
In his Library Prize-winning project, “Erased: An Exploration of Queer Japanese Americans’ Experience During the Internment Period,” Ryan Gottschalk provides a sensitive, nuanced reading of firsthand accounts, revealing clues into the presence of LGBTQ+ prisoners in the concentration camps. Through that work, along with the close examination of other sources, including records held by The Bancroft Library, Gottschalk adds brushstrokes to the harrowing portrait of Japanese American life during World War II, raising visibility, challenging assumptions, and pulling to the surface themes from the past that linger today.

To learn more, read this article featuring Gottschalk's work!

https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/news/erased

# data[].attributes.headline
Posted by panelist Pat Steenland ~ Bears in History

# data[].attributes.subject
Posted by panelist Pat Steenland ~ Bears in History

# data[].attributes.body
In 1942, months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Executive Order 9066 was issued, allowing the Secretary of War and xenophobic military commanders to prescribe military areas which vested them the power to exclude any and all people, specifically 120,000 Japanese Americans and have them sent to internment camps. Over two-thirds of them were U.S. citizens and many of them were children.

Spread around the Berkeley campus are three life-size art installations representing these three figures and their contributions to the Berkeley community. Below, you can learn more about each of their lives via Adobe Spark projects which conducted primary source research.

This project is brought to you by the students in CWR4B "Images of History".

https://www.bearsinhistory.org/