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Sustainability & environment

Photo of Ashok Gadgil, wearing the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, shaking hands with President Biden.

Ashok Gadgil awarded National Medal of Technology and Innovation

10/24/23 — Distinguished CEE professor's technological innovations have profoundly benefited low-resource communities worldwide
Photo of office interior, with ceiling fans and workers at tables, that served as a laboratory. Researchers controlled air conditioners and ceiling fans as part of a study.

Hybrid cooling leads to 32% energy savings in tropical office buildings — without sacrificing comfort

10/12/23 — CITRIS: Berkeley researchers, academic partners in Singapore combine ceiling fans with higher AC set points
Image of silicon wafers.

Accelerating sustainable semiconductors with ‘multielement ink’

09/28/23 — Berkeley Lab: New material developed by Berkeley engineers could enable green, low-carbon manufacturing of next-gen microelectronics
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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 an electric vehicle lithium-ion battery pack.

Berkeley engineer Gerbrand Ceder leads new consortium to make batteries for EVs more sustainable

09/13/23 — Berkeley Lab: Breakthrough battery technology could ramp up domestic supply chain of critical minerals driving clean energy transition
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Berkeley engineers partner with Siemens Energy on $3.7M DOE project to explore direct air capture for carbon sequestration

09/07/23 — Nationwide project intends to advance research in climate change mitigation
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Can we talk to whales?

09/06/23 The New Yorker — The New Yorker: Berkeley engineer Shafi Goldwasser explores how artificial intelligence may allow us to speak to other species
Photo of various coral species living in the ocean.

Cryotechnology developed by Berkeley engineers unlocks new approach to coral preservation

08/23/23 — Smithsonian: Successfully cooling and thawing coral fragments key to global conservation milestone for vanishing coral reefs
Volunteer surveying homes destroyed by wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii.

Why deadly fire risks are multiplying

08/21/23 — Washington Post: Large wildfires are happening more often because the hazards that trigger them — dry conditions, strong winds, plenty of stuff to burn — are becoming more common, says Michael Gollner, head of Berkeley's Fire Research Lab
Photo illustration of fog on steel nanoengineered mesh used for harvesting and purifying water droplets.

Scientists develop parallel method for fog harvesting and water treatment

08/17/23 — Nanoengineered meshes powered by sunlight work continuously to collect water and remove pollutants
Image of smokestacks emitting vapor into the air.

Study finds racial gap in air quality may persist under Biden program

07/25/23 — Berkeley News: Berkeley researchers point to administration’s decision not to include racial demographics in a new tool that will be used to evaluate proposed regulations or policies
Collage of stormy sky raining down zeros and ones, a weather prediction model and a satellite dish.

‘Nowcasting’ model enables forecasting of extreme precipitation

07/12/23 — AI tool for analyzing short-term weather conditions may help save lives
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
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New Berkeley Engineer magazine is here

05/24/23 — Spring 2023 issue delves into topics ranging from sustainability to aerospace to health and aging
Photo illustration of how stake-based sensors could measure gases in the soil

Raising the stakes

05/17/23 — To identify climate-friendly farming practices for biofuel crops, scientists are devising a tracking system that uses inexpensive printed sensors.
Man in blue lab jacket and gloves mixing ingredients in a lab

Keep it cool

05/17/23 — Ionocaloric cooling, a new method developed by Berkeley engineers, could help phase out HFC refrigerants that emit greenhouse gases.
Photo of water from a faucet.

Researchers reveal the ‘hidden’ costs of drinkable water

05/04/23 — Successful water treatment technologies require a deeper understanding of users’ challenges
Illustration depicting a three-sectioned recycling sign surrounding a scene of two recycling bins with recyclables at varying states of decay.

A Day in the Half-Life podcast: Reimagining plastics

04/18/23 Berkeley Lab — Berkeley Lab: UC Berkeley materials science and engineering professor Ting Xu discusses developing smarter materials that avoid the pitfalls of 20th century plastics
Photo of farm machine harvesting miscanthus, a quickly-growing grass that can be used as a bioenergy crop or harvested, salted and buried to sequester the carbon it took in from the atmosphere.

To more effectively sequester biomass and carbon, just add salt

04/11/23 — Salting and burying biomass crops in dry landfills could economically capture greenhouse gases for thousands of years
Image of heteropolymers designed to mimic the properties of natural proteins.

Berkeley engineers develop synthetic polymers that mimic the body’s natural proteins

03/20/23 — Alternative polymers work as well as real proteins and are easier to synthesize, a possible game-changer for biomedical applications
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