For junior Hong Lin, it would ensure that future students benefit, as he now does, from a challenging apprenticeship with one of Berkeley's most distinguished faculty. It would mean that the promise of athletic success that attracted freshman Sean Jackson to Cal could be realized in a new Haas Pavilion. It also would help carry out Computer Science Professor Lawrence Rowe's vision of the high-tech classroom of the future. Cal's campaign for student life will ensure that such opportunities survive and thrive into the new century. Cal Personal Hong Lin Berkeley is big.
Students know it, faculty know it.
But being big needn't mean being impersonal. Ask newly named Truman Scholar Hong Lin, who stumbled upon the Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program one day while walking through the College of Letters and Science offices in Campbell Hall. Now Lin is the first Cal student selected to receive the nationally prestigious Truman Scholarship since 1992. He credits the apprentice program with giving him the tools and perspective to succeed in ways not easily acquired in a traditional classroom setting. Unfortunately, student interest in the research apprentice program far outstrips Berkeley's resources-the program received more than 800 student applications last fall for only 200 research positions.