Karl van Bibber and Shafi Goldwasser elected to the American Academy of Sciences and Letters
11/14/25 — ‘Distinguished academics’ honored for their outstanding scholarship
Nuclear engineering
Scientists discover new heavy-metal molecule ‘Berkelocene’
03/12/25 — Berkeley Lab: Breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements
In sickness and in health
11/25/24 — Rebecca Abergel explores the promise of nuclear medicine
In sickness and in health
11/20/24 — Professor Rebecca Abergel harnesses the power of radioactive metals to develop treatments for cancer and heavy metal contamination.
A new way to make element 116 opens the door to heavier atoms
07/24/24 — Berkeley Lab: NE grad students John Gooding, Mirza Grebo, Mallory McCarthy, Emma Rice contributed to this major breakthrough
Novel approach to studying actinium sheds light on radioactive element’s behavior
07/15/24 — Berkeley Lab: Research could help improve a promising cancer treatment known as targeted alpha therapy
Rebecca Abergel, Boubacar Kanté, Jay Keasling win 2024 Bakar Prize
03/12/24 — Award helps campus innovators translate their discoveries into real-world solutions
Researchers awarded $3.7M to build next-generation haloscope in search for dark matter
12/15/23 — Funding will support “tabletop” physics that could change our understanding of the universe
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
Nuclear power renaissance
11/06/23 — Molten salt technologies could pave the way for advanced nuclear energy systems that are safer, more efficient and cost-effective.
Umesh Vazirani awarded $2.4M grant from DOE
10/30/23 — Research will explore ways to advance production-ready quantum computing
Berkeley Engineering alumni help achieve decades-long quest for nuclear fusion
12/22/22 — Andrea Kritcher (M.S.’07, Ph.D.’09 NE) and Brian Spears (Ph.D.’04 ME) share their thoughts on the future of fusion research and how their time at Berkeley shaped their careers
Aiding Chernobyl
11/07/22 — Berkeley engineers have been testing and refurbishing critical equipment to send to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Nuclear engineers send equipment, expertise to ransacked Chernobyl
08/05/22 — Russia's invasion of Ukraine left scientists at site of 1986 nuclear disaster without tools to contain the lingering radiation
Search for axions gets new target, new tools
02/25/22 — Nuclear engineering professor Karl van Bibber's research with plasmonic haloscopes could bolster physicists' new calculations of the mass of axions, a prime dark matter candidate
Masayoshi Tomizuka named to National Academy of Engineering
02/09/22 — Mechanical engineering professor among 76 academy members at Berkeley Engineering
Daniel Kammen named senior adviser to USAID
10/21/21 — Kammen, who holds joint appointments in energy and resources, public policy and nuclear engineering, will serve as senior adviser for energy, climate and innovation for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech and USC launch new National AI Research Institute
07/29/21 — NSF awards $20M for researchers to deploy AI to tackle massive optimization challenges
Are heavy metals toxic? Scientists find surprising new clues in yeast
06/07/21 Berkeley Lab — Joint study led by nuclear engineering's Rebecca Abergel maps potential toxicity of lanthanide metals used in medicine, electronics
It’s elemental
04/26/21 — New research could lead to advanced cancer treatments as well as a better understanding of a little-known element.