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Young Berkeley engineers recognized as innovators, humanitarians

08/20/14 MIT Technology Review — An EECS post-doc and two Berkeley Engineering alumni are named to the 2014 MIT Technology Review “35 Innovators Under 35” list. All three are part of the humanitarian category. Post-doc Kurtis Heimerl, 30, developed the Village Base Station, which brings cellular telecommunications to remote places of the world. Heimerl is CEO of Endaga, a company founded […]
Christine Leon Swisher dancing with the 49ers Gold Rush cheerleaders.

Giving her all in the lab, on the field

08/14/14 — Dr. Christine Leon Swisher (Ph.D.'14 BioE) talks about juggling her passions for science and dance, simultaneously pursuing a PhD and dancing with the 49ers Gold Rush cheerleaders.
Jacobs Hall, the Laus, Coleman Fung and Lydia Sohn

Campaign site tells 40-plus stories of philanthropy and its impact

05/12/14 University Relations — The recently concluded Campaign for Berkeley looks back at its $3.13 billion success by telling the stories of donors and the fruits of their generosity, including the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, Bakar Fellow (and mechanical engineering associate professor) Lydia Sohn, the entrepreneurial Coleman Fung, and energy research chairs endowed by Katherine and James Lau.

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Alumni notes

05/01/14 — News and photos of Berkeley Engineering alumni from decades past.

Memorial Stadium goes Kabam

05/01/14 — Michael Li (B.S'01 EECS) is the founder and general manager of Kabam, the company that pledged $28 million over 15 years to purchase the naming rights to the newly remodeled Memorial Stadium.

Tundra scientist

05/01/14 — Geophysicist Susan Hubbard (Ph.D'98 CEE) leads a research team from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Barrow, Alaska as part of the 10-year Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiment.

Farewell

05/01/14 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering faculty and alumni
Eric Allman

Email innovator Eric Allman named to Internet Hall of Fame

04/09/14 Internet Society — Software pioneer Eric Allman (B.S.'77 EECS, M.S.'80 CS), whose creation of the sendmail program in the 1980s made possible email as we know it today, has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. Joining him as a member of the class of 2014 is the late Douglas Engelbart (Ph.D.'55 EE), father of the computer mouse.

Measuring your DNA health

04/04/14 — Sometime soon, Sylvain Costes (Ph.D'99 NE) hopes that annual medical checkups will include a simple blood test to determine levels of DNA damage. The list of things assaultive to the body's basic building blocks is long - radiation, ultraviolet light and toxins, to name a few - and errors occur even during normal cell division. The body continually repairs this damaged DNA, but sometimes, the routine repair process can fail. DNA damage and genetic mutations can lead to serious health problems like cancer, immunological disorders, neurological disorders and premature aging.

Control design at Lift Labs

04/04/14 — Anupam Pathak's (B.S'04 ME) idea to build a device to assist people with Parkinson's disease or essential tremor evolved from helping soldiers survive combat. Pathak started his mechanical engineering doctoral research at the University of Michigan at the height of U.S. troop deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan in 2004. Field reports showed that large numbers of freshly minted troops, with little experience in war zones, were facing stress-induced tremors during combat situations. A soldier with shaky hands is dangerous; the situation was so bad that tremor was affecting casualty rates.

Be the change, Code the Change

04/04/14 — Christine Loh first heard of “Code the Change” in a Facebook post as a junior electrical engineering and computer science major in 2012. Shortly after, she and classmate Brian Tseng (Class of 2016) launched a Berkeley chapter of the national organization, began hosting a student-run course, and connected eager classmates with more than a dozen nonprofit organizations in need of technical help.
William Hagen

Do good, be in demand as an engineer

03/11/14 U.S. News & World Report — Berkeley Engineering alum William T. Hagen (M.Eng.'12 ME) is an example of how job prospects in fields that allow engineers to help the world – such as energy, civil and mechanical engineering – are projected to grow.
Astronaut Rex Walheim with a Berkeley pennant

Rex Walheim – NASA astronaut and Berkeley engineer

02/24/14 Insight@Berkeley — Rex Walheim (B.S.'84 ME), veteran of more than 500 hours in space, talks about the value of tenacity, the power of passion, and the need for engineers to lay down their computers and polish their people skills.
Connor Landgraf with phone and stethoscope

Startup founded by students aims to revolutionize stethoscope

02/12/14 Daily Californian — Family doctors' iPhones may soon be incorporated into regular checkups to help monitor and detect heart conditions, thanks to a startup company run by UC Berkeley students and led by CEO Connor Landgraf (B.S.'13, M.Eng.'14 BioE).

Beyond Rube Goldberg’s machines

12/10/13 New York Times — Rube Goldberg's reservoir of elaborate contraptions that mutated simple tasks into madcap feats of ingenuity made him rich and famous. But the Berkeley-trained engineer (B.S. 1904 MSE) was also an all-around cartoon man and artist - the Thomas Edison of the newspaper comics pages - as the new book ‘The Art of Rube Goldberg' makes clear.

Cal football to be played on Kabam Field

12/09/13 San Francisco Chronicle — Kabam, a San Francisco-based mobile-gaming company, has secured naming rights for the playing field at Memorial Stadium. Three of Kabam's founders, including Michael Li, B.S. '01 EECS, are Berkeley graduates, as are 10 percent of the company's 700 employees worldwide.