New & noteworthy
05/17/23 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
Faculty
Farewell
05/17/23 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
With flexibility comes possibility
05/17/23 — Funding for faculty fellowships will ignite the most important discoveries of the future.
UC Berkeley joins NSF-backed AI institute for cybersecurity
05/08/23 — Five faculty members to develop 'foundational technologies in learning and reasoning'
Jitendra Malik presents on the sensorimotor road to artificial intelligence
03/24/23 — Berkeley Talks transcript: The Arthur J. Chick Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences examines the evolution of artificial intelligence, part of the Martin Meyerson Faculty Research Lectures
Aaron Streets aims to build a pipeline to diversify STEM faculty
02/08/23 — Berkeley bioengineering professor shares his thoughts on ways the Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium can help increase the diversity and quality of applicant pools for faculty roles
David Hodges, former dean of engineering and pioneer in integrated circuit design, dies at 85
11/29/22 — His work contributed to the rapid growth of the tech industry
Farewell
11/07/22 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
New & noteworthy
11/07/22 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
Aaron Streets named to Popular Science’s Brilliant 10
10/19/22 — CDSS: The list honors trailblazing early-career scientists and engineers who are tackling pressing challenges with innovative solutions
Study finds medical procedure that rejuvenates old human blood
09/15/22 — Berkeley researchers find that plasmapheresis could advance our understanding of human aging, inform treatment of age-related diseases
Jelani Nelson weighs in on state efforts to reform math education
09/08/22 — New Yorker: The EECS professor says proposed California Math Framework could worsen disparities in STEM
A day in the life of an imaging scientist
08/04/22 — CZ Initiative: Scientist Laura Waller is pushing the frontiers of computational imaging, helping researchers see biology in new ways and in exquisite detail.
Ramesh named Rice University’s vice president for research
08/01/22 — UC Berkeley materials scientist and physicist will assume post Aug. 15
New study evaluates NOAA’s wildfire smoke forecasting model
07/05/22 — Using data from the 2018 Camp Fire, civil engineering researchers identify ways to improve experimental smoke prediction tool
Oliver O’Reilly named vice provost for undergraduate education
06/30/22 — Mechanical engineering professor since 1992, O'Reilly will be responsible for supporting teaching, learning and undergraduate discovery
Pravin Varaiya, pioneer in smart transportation, dies at 81
06/23/22 — Credited with spearheading the self-driving car revolution in the 1990s, Varaiya brought an economist's grounding to research on the internet, energy and transportation systems and urban environments
Former UC Santa Cruz chancellor, Berkeley Engineering dean Karl Pister has died
05/16/22 — Pister, a structural engineering professor who devoted more than 70 years to the university, to higher education and to expanding educational opportunities for students from kindergarten to graduate school, was 96.
Farewell
04/15/22 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
New & noteworthy
04/15/22 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.