A. Richard Newton Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series
This lecture series recognizes the entrepreneurial vision of A. Richard Newton, Dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering from 2000 to 2007, by inviting distinguished innovators to share lessons from their own successes and failures. Hosted by the Pantas and Ting Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, the lectures will take place virtually over Zoom. Syllabus and course information available on bcourses. CLICK HERE to see the past speakers from previous semesters.
Starting in Spring 2021, the A. Richard Newton Lecture Series will become an official Berkeley Changemaker course. Berkeley Changemaker is a way to help engineers, humanists, and scientists on campus understand their passion and have the ability to create change and have agency in the world. The A. Richard Newton Series course helps students understand how to pursue their interests and execute them by learning from distinguished innovators.
Schedule
Dr. Jennifer Chayes
UC Berkeley Associate Provost of the Division of Computing, Data, Science, and Society & Dean of the School of Information
February 2, 2020
Rich Lyons
Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer & Former Dean, Haas School, UC Berkeley
February 23, 2021
No Class
Spring Break
March 23, 2021
Shafi Goldwasser
Director of the Simons Institute, UC Berkeley and Turing Award Recipient
March 30, 2021
CLASS INFORMATION
INDENG 95 | 195 | 295
Academic Units: 1
Pass/No Pass
For additional questions, please email vhowell@berkeley.edu.