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The Renewable and Appropriate Laboratory is a unique new research, development, project implementation, and community outreach facility based at UCB in the Energy and Resources Group and the Department of Nuclear Engineering. RAEL focuses on designing, testing, and disseminating renewable and appropriate energy systems. The laboratory's mission is to help these technologies realize their full potential to contribute to environmentally sustainable development in both industrialized and developing nations while also addressing the cultural context and range of potential social impacts of any new technology or resource management system.

The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society –CITRIS—creates information technology solutions for many of our most pressing social, environmental and healthcare problems. Faculty, students and industrial researchers are seeing solutions to many of the concerns that face all of us today, from the environment and finding viable sustainable energy alternatives to healthcare delivery and developing secure electronic medical records and remote diagnosis, ultimately boosting economic productivity. CITRIS represents a bold and exciting vision that is leveraging one of the top university systems in the world with highly successful corporate partners and government resources.