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Portrait shot of Dean Tsu-Jae King Liu, wearing a navy blue jacket over a white shirt with trees in the background.

Tsu-Jae King Liu named president of the National Academy of Engineering

Liu to step down as dean to begin six-year NAE term on July 1
Child's hand receiving water from a spigot.

Household drinking water identified as key pathway for bacterial transmission

Research points to effective strategies for protecting community health
Illustration of Lactobacillus bacteria, capsule-shaped and shown in purple against blue background.

The not-so-secret life of gut bacteria

Computational modeling gives us a peek inside these important microbial communities

Latest ceremony updates

Meet our commencement speakers for spring 2025

Baccalaureate
Clifford Chan
Clifford Chan
General Manager, EBMUD
Master’s
Emmanual Chao
Emmanuel Chao
Hardware Engineering Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
Doctoral
John Schulman
John Schulman
Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Thinking Machines Lab

Student speakers for commencement spring 2025

Trishala Jain
Trishala Jain
B.S.’25 EECS & Business
Paige Destiny Lyles
Paige Destiny Lyles
B.S.’23 CEE, MEng’25 IEOR
Numi Sveinsson
Numi Sveinsson Cepero
Ph.D.’25 ME

News

Carlos Quezada, civil engineering student.

Carlos Quezada named a 2025 University Medal finalist

In turbulent times, civil engineering student excelled through idealism, hard work
Anastasios Angelopoulos (L) and Wei-Lin Chiang, founders of Chatbot Arena.

Berkeley engineers’ crowd-sourced AI ranking system rises to the top

Chatbot Arena, which allows users to rank and compare AI models, has quickly grown to 1 million monthly users
TagsAI
Maria Astolfi, a doctoral student from Manaus in the Amazon, standing in front of a soapbark tree outside Wheeler Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. (Photo by Robert Sanders / UC Berkeley)

Indigenous knowledge helps biotech find new drugs. This grad student wants those companies to give back.

Maria Astolfi (Ph.D.’26 BioE) is working toward a new type of partnership with indigenous peoples to create a more ethical bioeconomy
Robert Ritchie and Daniel Kammen

Two Berkeley engineers elected to National Academy of Sciences

Robert Ritchie and Daniel Kammen recognized for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research
News archive

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Number of Berkeley Engineering undergraduate and graduate programs ranked in the Top 5 nationally by U.S. News & World Report.

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Stellar faculty

Our current and emeritus faculty includes 72 members of the National Academy of Engineering.

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UCOP and campus updates on federal actions

For more information the recent federal actions, please visit the UCOP federal updates page and the UC Berkeley federal updates page.

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