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An M.D. and Ph.D. candidate at UC San Francisco, Alice Tang speaking at a dais.

Berkeley engineers among innovators featured on Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ list

02/02/26 — Many are leading the way across AI, entrepreneurship, science and more
Mark Asta speaks during the Grimes Engineering Center opening celebration

Mark Asta appointed dean of Berkeley Engineering

01/21/26 — Appointment begins July 1 after the end of his current term as interim dean
Eugene Jarvis

Game changer

11/10/25 — Arcade legend Eugene Jarvis looks back on his time as a Berkeley undergrad
Bear statue

Farewell

11/10/25 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students

New & noteworthy

11/10/25 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students
Photo of Owen Kent and Todd Roberts.

Berkeley alums develop at-home robotic rehabilitation device

10/20/25 — ATDev co-founders advance new possibilities for assistive technologies
William Tarpeh (M.S.’13, Ph.D.’17 Environmental Eng), 2025 MacArthur Fellow standing in his laboratory.

William Tarpeh awarded MacArthur ‘genius’ fellowship

10/08/25 — Berkeley Engineering alum is pioneering methods to recover resources from wastewater
Eugene Jarvis stands behind a podium with a "Eugene Jarvis Auditorium" sign in the background. Grimes Engineering Center Opening Celebration at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif. on Monday, April 21, 2025. (Photo by Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering)

A token of an arcade legend’s school spirit

09/10/25 — Alum Eugene Jarvis looks back on his time at Berkeley
Bear statue

Farewell

06/11/25 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
Kristin Persson, Stuart Russell and David Schaffer (left to right)

Three professors named to NAE

06/11/25 — Professors Kristin Person, Stuart Russell and David Schaffer were elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Logo of Perplexity, an AI-driven search engine

Smarter searches

06/11/25 — Alum Aravind Srinivas is the co-founder of Perplexity, an AI-driven search engine that only provides results it can reference.
crowd of students in the lower level of a building

Designed to inspire

06/09/25 — The Grimes Engineering Center showcases innovative approaches to architecture and seismic engineering.

New & noteworthy

06/09/25 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
George Leitmann, wearing a suit and tie, gestures at the lectern. In the background are French cadets in uniform.

George Leitmann, renowned academic leader, decorated WWII veteran, dies at 99

05/30/25 — Engineering science professor made seminal contributions in the field of optimal control
Anastasios Angelopoulos (L) and Wei-Lin Chiang, founders of Chatbot Arena.

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

05/07/25 — Chatbot Arena, which allows users to rank and compare AI models, has quickly grown to 1 million monthly users
Aravind Srinivas (Ph.D.’21 CS), co-founder and CEO of Perplexity.

Berkeley alum wants to ‘make the planet smarter’

03/10/25 — Aravind Srinivas, co-founder of Perplexity, seeks to create a better AI chatbot
Photo of Michael and Janelle Grimes wearing hard hats and shoveling dirt at the Engineering Center groundbreaking ceremony.

New Engineering Center to be named after UC Berkeley alumni Michael and Janelle Grimes

02/19/25 — The honor recognizes benefactors who have made outstanding contributions to the campus and its students
Kristin Persson, Stuart Russell and David Schaffer (left to right)

Three Berkeley Engineering professors named to NAE

02/11/25 — Kristin Persson, Stuart Russell and David Schaffer elected to the esteemed organization

Farewell

11/20/24 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

New & noteworthy

11/20/24 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
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