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Collage mage of squirrels jumping, landing and balancing on a narrow branch, and a robot in midair attempting the same feat.

No robot can match a squirrel’s ability to leap from limb to limb — until now

03/19/25 — UC Berkeley engineers and biologists design a robot that can stick a landing on a branch
Mechanical engineering student Will Siemens competing on pole vault.

When student athletes are also engineers

03/05/25 — ASME: Berkeley mechanical engineering students are excelling on and off the field, court and track

Farewell

11/20/24 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
SpaceCAL 3D printer awaiting June 2024 launch on VSS Unity; Taylor Waddell (inset)

Manufacturing in microgravity

11/20/24 — Berkeley researchers sent their 3D printing technology to space as part of the Virgin Galactic 07 mission.

New & noteworthy

11/20/24 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
Kirk Herbstreit and Daniel Villasenor during the Field Goal Kicking Challenge segment on the set of College GameDay Built by the Home Depot at the University of California (Cal), UC Berkeley. (Photo by Phil Ellsworth / ESPN Images)

Precision under pressure

11/20/24 — Undergrad Daniel Villasenor kicked a field goal on ESPN’s College GameDay show, winning $100,000 and becoming a social media sensation.
A person in a green T-shirt stands in a greenhouse, surrounded by growing plants. (Photo by Elena Zhukova/University of California)

Students address real-world problems with CITRIS Workforce Innovation

11/06/24 — CITRIS: The summer internship program places students with hosts in emerging areas of technology innovation
An expert from El Camino College speaks at the National Workshop on Data Science Education in Berkeley, Calif., in June 2024.

UC Berkeley to launch compute hub with California Education Learning Lab

09/23/24 — CDSS: $1.5M grant will fund first-of-its-kind computing technology hub for the state’s public colleges and universities
Collage of headshots of Siebel Scholars Foundation’s class of 2025

Six students honored as Siebel Scholars

09/20/24 — Foundation announces class of 2025
Vihaan Hampihallikar is a first-year student at UC Berkeley, where he

Young cricket star had to rethink future after eye injury

08/26/24 — New EECS student Vihaan Hampihallikar then started a project to help others get the health care they needed
Hellina Hailu Nigatu, computer science Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley.

CS Ph.D. student aims to improve AI for underserved languages and communities

08/01/24 — CDSS: Hellina Hailu Nigatu to develop computing tools with “community values in mind”
Experts who worked to create element 116 using a titanium beam gather in the control room for the 88-Inch Cyclotron.

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
Spaceflight feather, as viewed aboard VSS Unity on June 8, 2024. The Virgin Galactic 07 flight carried Berkeley’s SpaceCal 3D printer and four other research payloads.

Berkeley researchers send 3D printer into space

07/02/24 — SpaceCAL tests the limits of additive manufacturing on Virgin Galactic 07 mission
A firefighter standing in front of a grassfire.

Student engineers named UC Berkeley Climate Innovation fellows by CITRIS

06/14/24 — CITRIS: Rising entrepreneurs Youngseok Jo and Bear Häon will receive $10,000 each to advance innovative projects that address urgent environmental challenges
Nine people stand in front of a small stage. Two people at the center are holding a small trophy.

Winners of 2024 CITRIS Aviation Prize reach great heights

05/31/24 — CITRIS: UC Berkeley team received the Joby Aviation Award for Best Overall Design and the CITRIS Aviation Excellence Award
Dancer, roboticist and mechanical engineer Catie Cuan flails her arms, mimicking the movements of a UR5e robot arm, in the performance piece "Breathless."

Bridging the brain

05/31/24 — A new interdisciplinary class explores the relationship between art, AI and robotics.
Bright object with fiery trail approaching curve of Earth in image from space

Q+A on solar sails

05/31/24 — The BLISS project aims to create a fleet of miniaturized, autonomous spacecraft for exploring asteroids and comets.

New & noteworthy

05/31/24 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
Lilly Etzenbach, B.S.’24 ME.

Berkeley engineer Lilly Etzenbach among 2024 University Medal finalists

05/07/24 — Forced into COVID-era isolation, this year’s finalists embraced resilience, compassion
Hany Farid

EECS professor Hany Farid and I School Ph.D. students featured on PBS Nova

04/17/24 — School of Information: The episode, “A.I. Revolution,” covers the dangers of deepfakes — and how easily they can be created
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