New & noteworthy
11/07/22 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
Faculty
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.
Abbeel hosts AI robotics podcast
04/15/22 — EECS professor sits down with top experts and entrepreneurs for “The Robot Brains Podcast.”
Examining the effects of chlorinated drinking water on the gut microbiome
04/14/22 — New research shows no negative impact on children's digestive bacteria from chlorinated drinking water
Robots, AI and podcasting: a Q&A with Pieter Abbeel
03/18/22 — Professor Pieter Abbeel has launched “The Robot Brains Podcast,” featuring discussions with leading AI experts and entrepreneurs.
Amy Herr named chief technology officer of CZ Biohub Network
02/28/22 — Berkeley bioengineering professor will help lead Chan Zuckerberg group's efforts to advance technologies to observe, measure, and analyze human biology in action
Slicing the way to wearable sensor prototypes
02/11/22 — A $200 vinyl cutter can replace a multistep clean room technique to churn out the prototypes researchers need to rapidly test new stretchable sensors.
Veteran campus leader Catherine Koshland to retire
02/03/22 — Koshland, the Wood-Calvert Professor in Engineering, has held many senior positions in her 38 years at Berkeley, culminating in her current service as interim executive vice chancellor and provost.
Ikhlaq Sidhu named dean of Spain’s IE School of Technology
12/13/21 — The founding faculty director and chief scientist of Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology to remain in current position until June 2022.
Right off the bats
11/15/21 — Researchers at the NeuroBat Lab are learning more about the brain by studying the world’s only flying mammal.