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Alumni

New & noteworthy

05/11/26 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students
Bear statue

Farewell

05/11/26 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students
Professor Tarpeh speaking to an audience in front of a blackboard

William Tarpeh named 2025 MacArthur Fellow

05/11/26 — Fellowship recognizes efforts to recover valuable chemical resources from wastewater
Backdrop: homes. Front: Two people smiling at the camera. Person on the left is in a motorized wheelchair. Person on the right is wearing a walking assistance device on their left leg.

Reimagining rehabilitation

05/11/26 — Two Berkeley alums have launched a company that offers an at-home robotic rehabilitation device
A brilliant green and blue, long-billed bird sitting under a flower head.

Sunbirds suck, scientists find. Hummingbirds don’t.

04/13/26 — Two unrelated groups of nectar eaters, hummingbirds and sunbirds, evolved different techniques to slurp the sweet liquid from flowers
Paige Balcom at “Plastic Mountain,” an area at the current Takataka Plastics facility where collected bottles are dumped, then sorted before being processed in the facility’s production lines.

Giving plastic a second life

03/30/26 — UC Berkeley Engineering alum Paige Balcom is turning plastic waste into economic opportunity through her recycling company in Uganda
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 — UC Newsroom: 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
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