Building bears
08/17/18 — New freshmen and transfers brought enthusiasm, ideas and selfies to this fall's Golden Bear Orientation. Check out more shots on Instagram
Students
Evan Rambo making plays in world of sports technology
08/13/18 San Francisco Chronicle — Cal football safety Evan Rambo teamed up with students from materials science and engineering, chemical biology and EECS to develop force-tracking wearable technology, a concept that won the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship of Technology' Collider Cup competition.
Working in sync
08/02/18 Cal Sports Quarterly — The Sutardja Center's unique Sports Tech Collider Sprint brings together a cross-section of student athletes and STEM majors to explore ways that entrepreneurship and technology innovation can create competitive advantages for athletes and sports teams.
Three Berkeley engineers named as top young innovators
06/29/18 — An EECS professor, graduate student and recent alumnus have been named to MIT Technology Review's 2018 list of “35 Innovators Under 35.”
Course will make blockchain so clear ‘you can explain it to your grandma’
06/15/18 — A popular Berkeley DeCal course on blockchain - the complex, bewildering bookkeeping technology that underpins things like bitcoin - will soon be available free online to the public via edX.
Introducing FEMTech
06/02/18 — FEMTech is Berkeley's first interdisciplinary tech club for women and underrepresented students.
Out of the GAIT
06/02/18 — Students in the Fung Fellowship are building digital health technologies to meet the challenges of aging.
Solar cruiser
06/01/18 — Berkeley's CalSol team designed a new solar-powered vehicle that can hold four passengers.
Redesigning wind power
06/01/18 — Berkeley Engineering students have designed a wind turbine that is quiet, efficient and protects birds.
Those four-wheeled robots on campus, explained
05/31/18 — The presence of talented EECS student engineers, along with plenty of hungry students and a gourmet local food scene, goes a long way to explain the decision by Felipe Chavez to launch his robot-powered meal delivery startup Kiwi in Berkeley.
Now and forever Berkeley Engineers
05/16/18 — The 2018 Berkeley Engineering commencement ceremonies were filled with celebration, words of inspiration, and a Berkeley Citation for departing Dean Shankar Sastry. Relive the ceremonies in video and photos.
Alexa and Siri can hear this hidden command. You can’t
05/10/18 New York Times — EECS Ph.D. candidate Nicholas Carlini and other Berkeley cybersecurity researchers have been embedding commands into music and spoken text that human listeners can't hear but smart devices can. Carlini hopes to secure AI systems against attacks that he assumes "malicious people" are already working on.
Berkeley water engineer lands 2018 ‘Slammy’
05/04/18 Graduate Division — At the UC-wide Grad Slam competition on May 3, environmental engineering doctoral student Joseph Charbonnet brought home the first-place ‘Slammy' - and $9,000 in prize money - for his three-minute talk on using manganese-coated sand to capture, clean and re-use stormwater.
The HAB project: A platform for space research
04/30/18 — The student group Space Technologies at Cal is developing a balloon-based platform for near-space research. They recently launched a high-altitude balloon from Memorial Glade.
Scarred by attack, student entrepreneurs fight global terror
04/30/18 — In the wake of the 2016 terrorist attack in Nice, France, that claimed the life of a classmate, Berkeley students in the European Innovation Academy technology entrepreneurship program have embarked on a new mission - fighting global terrorism through startups that are gaining traction far beyond campus.
New esports space coming to Foothill
04/20/18 — Campus leaders are planning to convert a community room in the Foothill Residence Hall into a new facility dedicated to competitive student video game teams, ESPN reports.
More female computing grads challenge tech’s bad bros
04/16/18 Mercury News — More and more women are getting computer science and electrical engineering degrees from Berkeley and Stanford, reversing a national trend. But the growing and heated debate over the technology industry's male-dominated culture hasn't escaped the attention of those female students, said EECS professor John DeNero.
Valleytronics discovery could extend limits of Moore’s Law
04/16/18 Berkeley Lab — New research from Berkeley Lab, co-led by materials science and engineering Ph.D. candidate Shuren Lin, finds useful new information-handling potential in tin sulfide, a candidate “valleytronics” transistor material that might one day enable chipmakers to pack more computing power onto microchips.
Making computer animation more agile, acrobatic — and realistic
04/10/18 — EECS grad student Xue Bin “Jason” Peng and his colleagues have made a major advance in realistic computer animation, using deep reinforcement learning to create a virtual stuntman that mimics natural motions.
From pollution cleanup to building houses, what can’t mushrooms do?
04/02/18 — There are more than 5 million species of fungi, each eager to digest a particular waste product - sawdust, plastic, heavy metals - and turn it into new, natural and compostable material. In this Fiat Vox podcast, mechanical engineering Ph.D. candidate Sonia Travaglini talks about her work with "nature's recyclers."