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on the left: Ashok Gadgil, professor of the graduate school at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in the middle: EECS professor Boubacar Kanté in his Cory Hall lab on the right: BB-8 from Star Wars

Summer magazine is here

06/05/24 — Latest Berkeley Engineer features laser technology, BB-8 and a new interdisciplinary class that explores the relationship between art, AI and robotics
Arpad Horvath, Ravi Prasher and Ion Stoica

Three professors elected to NAE

05/31/24 — Arpad Horvath, Ravi Prasher and Ion Stoica — as well as nine Berkeley Engineering alums — were inducted by the organization.
Hands wearing blue gloves hold a tongue-controlled MouthPad^ touchpad.

A new paradigm

05/31/24 — Augmental, a company co-founded by alum Corten Singer, has developed a unique tongue-controlled touchpad.

Farewell

05/31/24 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

New & noteworthy

05/31/24 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
Paige Balcom, Tomás Vega and Corten Singer, from left, Berkeley alums featured in the award-winning documentary “Pathways to Invention.”

UC Berkeley innovators featured in ‘Pathways to Invention’ film

04/26/24 — Special to debut in May on PBS stations and streaming apps
Photo of Niklaus Wirth in 1984, when he won the prestigious Turing Award. On the left is “Lilith,” one of the world’s first computer workstations with a high-resolution graphic display and a mouse, and a forerunner of today’s personal computers.

Niklaus Wirth, visionary software architect, has died

02/28/24 — New York Times: Berkeley Engineering alum (Ph.D.’63 EECS) and creator of the Pascal programming language saw power in simplicity
Photo of Augmental co-founder Corten Singer (B.A.’17 CS, B.A.’17 CogSci, M.S.’18 EECS).

Berkeley alum develops tongue-controlled touchpad

01/30/24 — Corten Singer (B.A.’17 CS, B.A.’17 CogSci, M.S.’18 EECS) seeks to create a new paradigm in assistive technologies
Stack of Berkeley Engineer Fall 2023 magazines

Fall magazine is here

11/06/23 — Latest Berkeley Engineer features a renaissance in nuclear power, innovating the next generation of batteries, and unearthing a legacy
Tammy Hsu in her lab

The greening of jeans

11/06/23 — Huue, a company co-founded by alum Tammy Hsu, uses biotechnology to create environmentally friendly dyes for denim.

New & noteworthy

11/06/23 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

Farewell

11/06/23 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
Photo of Kirk Tramble (B.S.

Kirk Tramble (B.S.’93 EECS) is new president of Cal Alumni Assoc. board of directors

11/02/23 — CAA: In a Q&A, Tramble discusses his deep connections to UC Berkeley, including co-founding the Black Engineering and Science Alumni Club
Photo of Linsey Marr (M.S.

Berkeley Engineering alums among winners of MacArthur Foundation’s ‘genius award’

10/18/23 — UC Newsroom: Linsey Marr (M.S.'97, Ph.D.'02 CEE) and Lester Mackey (Ph.D.'12 CS) recognized for bringing outstanding originality, dedication and drive to their fields
Photo of Tammy Hsu (Ph.D.

Berkeley alum creating a greener future for bluejeans

09/28/23 — Tammy Hsu (Ph.D.’19 BioE) uses her engineering know-how to develop eco-friendly denim dye
Image of stickers that say, "I voted."

Should we take election forecasts seriously? A computer scientist says yes

08/17/23 — CDSS: Heading into the 2024 presidential election cycle, election forecaster and Berkeley Engineering alum Lakshya Jain shares how computing has changed political prediction efforts
Richard Simpson

Richard Simpson, pioneering safety regulator, dies

07/27/23 — Washington Post: Simpson (B.S.'56 EECS), founding chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, was 93
Photo of Gridscope mounted to a power pole in a snowy, mountainous area. (Photo courtesy Gridware)

CITRIS Foundry alumni innovate for a more sustainable world

06/01/23 — CITRIS: Startups founded by Berkeley engineers work to combat climate change, improve energy efficiency and develop more sustainable solutions

New & noteworthy

05/17/23 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
Gridware engineers on a utility truck

On the grid

05/17/23 — A device from Gridware, founded by engineering alums, uses harmonics from power poles to evaluate grid integrity and hazard risks.
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