France-Berkeley Fund 10th Anniversary

The Consul General of France in San Francisco Frédéric Desagneaux, and the Executive Director of the France-Berkeley Fund Tyler Stovall, are hosting a celebration for the tenth anniversary of the France-Berkeley Fund. For this event, a reception under the auspices of the French Ambassador to the United States, Jean-Daniel Levitte, and the Chancellor of UC Berkeley, Robert Berdahl, will take place on Friday, September 12, 2003 at 5pm in the Lipman Room in Barrows Hall. Director Charles V. Shank and professors Margaret W. Conkey and Roger Hahn, all from UC Berkeley, will be speaking at the event.

The France-Berkeley Fund endowment was established in 1993 with gifts from the University of California and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. FBF promotes and supports scientific and scholarly exchanges between France and UC Berkeley in all disciplines. Through its various programs, the fund nurtures and advances the next generation of leading researchers, ensuring continued collaboration between the United States and France. So far, the France-Berkeley Fund has succeeded in funding 145 projects that have brought together teams from over 50 different French institutions and almost every department and laboratory at UC Berkeley.

On the occasion of the FBF tenth anniversary, its organizers hope both to commemorate past achievements and to lay the groundwork for future programs and initiatives of the France-Berkeley Fund. They hope in particular to initiate collaboration between private research and academic research in computing, electronics and biomedical fields among others.