Kaichen Dong named one of 35 Innovators Under 35
06/30/22 — Kaichen Dong, a Berkeley postdoc in materials science and engineering, has been named among MIT Technology Review’s 2022 35 Innovators Under 35 contest
Honors & awards
UC Berkeley’s Rediet Abebe named 2022 Carnegie Fellow
04/26/22 — Honor includes $200,000 stipend to support the assistant professor's examination of evidentiary statistical software used in the criminal legal system
EECS PhD student named 2022 Soros fellow
04/14/22 — Dave Epstein joins other immigrants and children of immigrants chosen for “their potential to make significant contributions to the United States.”
Masayoshi Tomizuka named to National Academy of Engineering
02/09/22 — Mechanical engineering professor among 76 academy members at Berkeley Engineering
Seven Berkeley engineers honored as 2022 Siebel Scholars
09/23/21 — They are among 82 exceptional students from the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, and bioengineering.
Engineering student receives rare Generation Change Scholarship
09/21/21 Berkeley News — Sariel Sandoval, a Native American from Montana, gets award for domestic, non-resident students who are game changers, trailblazers, solution seekers and revolutionaries.
NSF awards $12.75M to renew natural hazards simulation center
09/20/21 — The four-year grant to the SimCenter supports research to understand and quantify the effects of natural hazards on buildings, lifelines and communities.
Award fuels female STEM leaders
07/02/21 Johnson & Johnson — Mechanical engineering assistant professor Hannah Stuart is one of six 2021 Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D scholars
Top graduating senior a tech whiz and musician
05/10/21 — With full-ride fellowship offers from Stanford and MIT, electrical engineer Leyla Kabuli is sticking with Berkeley.
Berkeley engineers win Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times Awards
04/27/21 — Nine engineering teaching groups were honored for innovations in remote instruction
Hayley Iben: Science and math meet artistic expression
04/13/21 — Pixar director of engineering and BE alumna Hayley Iben has won a Scientific and Technical Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Berkeley-led consortium awarded $25M to advance nuclear security
02/16/21 — This is the consortium's third five-year, $25 million grant, allowing it to continue its mission of educating nuclear scientists and advancing nuclear technologies.
Ambidextrous wins ‘Good Robot’ award for overall excellence
12/15/20 Silicon Valley Robotics — Berkeley-founded startup honored for its versatile e-commerce robots with an AI-enhanced operating system
Patents for Humanity honors Berkeley-designed infant warmer
11/05/20 — An infant-warming device developed by civil and environmental engineering professor Ashok Gadgil and a Berkeley Lab colleague received an honorable mention
New & noteworthy
11/05/20 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
Eight Berkeley engineers honored as 2021 Siebel Scholars
09/23/20 — Graduate students from bioengineering, computer science and energy science are among more than 90 selected worldwide.
Boubacar Kanté selected among 2020 cohort of Moore Inventor Fellows
09/16/20 — Associate EECS professor is a pioneer in topological light sources and lasers
Berkeley Engineering ranked #2 for undergrad programs
09/14/20 — Latest U.S. News & World Report national rankings lift Berkeley into a tie with Stanford
Four Berkeley engineers receive awards for COVID-19 research
06/24/20 — C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute announces new funding for projects
BerkeleyDB wins 2020 SIGMOD Systems Award
06/15/20 — The creators of BerkeleyDB have won the 2020 Association for Computing Machinery SIGMOD Systems Award for their "seminal work" on the revolutionary software library.