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Berkeley researchers develop highly efficient, energy-dense capacitor

08/19/20 Berkeley Lab — New material could ultimately combine the efficiency and robustness of capacitors with the energy storage capabilities of larger-scale batteries for use in consumer electronics.

Why the U.S. leads in power outages

08/19/20 Popular Science — Our grid is outdated, run down and vulnerable to climate change, says Berkeley electrical engineer Alexandra von Meier; microgrids are one potential solution

Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing gets renewed support with $35.5M grant

08/13/20 — The award brings the Simons Foundation's support of the institute, launched in 2012, to nearly $100 million.

Train engines underneath bridge over bullet train route

‘Horrible sequence of mistakes’: How contractors botched a bridge project

08/11/20 — Berkeley civil engineers Robert Bea and William Ibbs weigh in on cascading problems with a massive Madera County bridge over the planned route of the state's much-delayed bullet train

Photo of Kristin Persson, Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor of materials science and engineering at UC Berkeley and a senior faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Kristin Persson named director of Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry

08/05/20 — MSE professor's pioneering use of data-driven methodologies for materials discovery is spurring a new age of innovation

UC Berkeley accelerates bio-preservation research as part of $26M NSF center

08/04/20 — The Advanced Technologies for the Preservation of Biological Systems (ATP-Bio) center could dramatically expand organ transplant options

Researchers create surface coating that can create false infrared images

07/23/20 — The visual decoy technique could lead to new advances in encryption technology

Chenming Hu, Tsu-Jae King Liu, Jeffrey Bokor and Sayeef Salahuddin

A better way to measure progress in semiconductors

07/22/20 — Four EECS professors are featured in an IEEE Spectrum article about efforts to replace Moore's Law with a better metric to measure progress in semiconductors

Artist’s rendition of quantum entanglement

UC Berkeley to lead $25 million quantum computing center

07/21/20 — National Science Foundation grant aims to establish a multi-university institute focused on speeding the development of quantum computers

Four decades of WiCSE presidents at a reunion meeting

‘A network of our own’

07/21/20 — In celebration of 150 Years of Women at Berkeley, Sheila Humphreys tells the story of Women in Computer Science and Engineering, a student organization launched in the 1970s.

Anne Mayoral leads campers on a live Zoom tour

Virtually engaging

07/14/20 — During COVID-19, Girls in Engineering camp gets creative online

Illustration of masked community members

Fung Institute responds to COVID-19

07/14/20 — How various members of the Fung Institute community take initiative to support COVID-19 response

Grace OConnell with a sleep apnea machine converted to a ventilator for COVID-19

Berkeley team creates respiratory devices from sleep apnea machines

07/07/20 — Resourceful and affordable, about 600 apparatuses from Grace O'Connell's lab head to Ecuador this month

Light shows the way to build ‘smart’ infrastructure

07/01/20 Berkeley Research — Kenichi Soga, Chancellor's Professor in civil and environmental engineering, is using fiber-optic cables to monitor structures ranging from tunnels to building foundations

Photo illustration of Donald Trump and Joe Biden

Farid: Online disinfo now targeting COVID-19, Black Lives Matter

06/26/20 Futurism — Digital forensics expert and EECS professor Hany Farid lays out the greatest digital threats facing the country, and how to combat them

Berkeley bioengineers discover how tumor cells can mimic Velcro

06/25/20 — Long, membranous microtentacles help tumor cells work their way through brain tissue

Schematic of the fishnet metalens and a closeup of its unit cell.

Engineers create game-changing metalens that breaks records in performance

06/25/20 — World's thinnest, most efficient flat lens delivers focal power over broad band of light

Monitoring COVID-19 prevalence in municipal wastewater

06/24/20 — Samples from a single collection station can reveal clues to how the SARS-CoV-2 virus is circulating in communities

Gerbrand Ceder, Teresa Head-Gordon, Jennifer Listgarten, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Four Berkeley engineers receive awards for COVID-19 research

06/24/20 — C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute announces new funding for projects

Junqiao Wu in the atrium of Hearst Memorial Mining Building

Bakar Prize winner hopes to harness sun’s power

06/22/20 — Junqiao Wu, professor of material science and engineering, awarded campus's new $225,000 prize for real-world potential of his thermal-powered material transformations