A single dose for good measure
Nuclear engineering professor Rebecca Abergel and her colleagues at Berkeley Lab developed a pill designed to treat radiation poisoning that could double as an anti-gadolinium-toxicity pill for MRI patients.
A single dose for good measure
9/13/2019 Nuclear engineering professor Rebecca Abergel and her colleagues at Berkeley Lab developed a pill designed to treat radiation poisoning that could double as an anti-gadolinium-toxicity pill for MRI patients. X
Students make neutrons dance beneath campus
9/11/2019 In an underground vault enclosed by six-foot concrete walls and accessed by a rolling, 25-ton concrete-and-steel door, nuclear engineering students are making neutrons dance to a new tune: one better suited to producing isotopes required for geological dating, police forensics, hospital diagnosis and treatment. XBerkeley Engineering is #3 in U.S. News rankings
9/9/2019 Berkeley Engineering was again ranked the number three program overall and the top public engineering school, in the 2020 U.S. News & World Report annual list of “America’s Best Colleges.” Eight individual engineering programs were ranked top 5 in their respective fields, and all were in the top 10. X
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Sally Floyd, who helped things run smoothly online, dies at 69
9/5/2019 New York Times - Sally Floyd (Ph.D '89, EECS) was one of the inventors of Random Early Detection, which continues to play a vital role in the stability of the internet. She passed away on August 25.
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New Bakar Fellows already are making an impact
9/5/2019 - Three Berkeley Engineering professors have been named 2019 - 2020 Bakar Fellows. The fellows are Niren Murthy (BioE), Raluca Ada Popa (EECS) and Kenichi Soga (CEE).
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Autonomous vehicles: The answer to our traffic woes
8/28/2019 Wired - Berkeley Engineering's Alexandre Bayen and Liao-Cho are studying the impact that autonomous vehicles can have on traffic flow. And, their findings suggest that self-driving cars can help alleviate traffic.
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Fletcher Lab’s mobile phone-based microscope receives Gates Foundation support
8/27/2019 - The Gates Foundation awarded a grant to Berkeley in July 2019 to support the scaled-up production of the LoaScope, a mobile phone-based microscope developed by bioengineering professor Daniel Fletcher and researchers in his bioengineering laboratory.
Minner Lecture
Wednesday, September 18
Barbara Simons (Ph.D. ’81, EECS), board chair of Verified Voting, will discuss whether we can recover from an attack on our election with Dean Tsu-Jae King Liu. The program will start at noon in the Bantato Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall. Lunch will be provided.
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Berkeley Engineering programs ranked in the top 5 nationally by USN&WR
Stellar faculty
Our faculty includes 73 members of the National Academy of Engineering
