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Spring 2021 magazine

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Weiss/Manfredi rendering of aerial view of the Gateway. Note: design is provisional and in development.

Trio of $25 million gifts accelerates transformation of computing and data science

06/07/21 — Gifts will support construction of the Gateway, the planned hub for collaborative data science and computing education and research, and the creation of two new faculty positions

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

Accidental billionaires

06/02/21 Forbes — How seven Berkeley artificial intelligence engineers who didn't want to make a cent are now worth billions

Freada Kapor Klein ’74 and Haile Shavers ’18

New gift will diversify next generation of STEM leaders

05/28/21 Light the Way — $5 million from Freada Kapor Klein and Mitch Kapor will fund scholarships for marginalized populations, to help science and technology “look like America”

EECS faculty featured as luminaries in Electron Devices Society podcast series

05/25/21 — Chenming Hu, Tsu-Jae King Liu and Leon Chua share insights from their lives and careers

EECS professor David Culler awarded Berkeley Citation

05/21/21 — The prestigious honor, one of the highest given by UC Berkeley, recognizes achievements that exceed the standards of excellence

2D transistor technology overcomes barrier to ever-shrinking computer chips

05/17/21 — Atomically thin semiconductor could be game-changing alternative to silicon

Three engineering faculty receive Young Investigator Award

05/17/21 — Alvin Cheung, Somayeh Sojoudi and Grace Gu to receive highly competitive grants to support their early-career research.

Nicholas Tomlin, Dan Klein, and Eric Wallace

The language of probabilities

05/13/21 — Professor Dan Klein and his Berkeley Natural Language Processing Group helped a computer win the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament

Having faith in your journey, despite the turmoil

05/13/21 — Civil engineer and CalNerd Jose Magana, uprooted from his life in El Salvador, overcame arduous life experiences to graduate from Berkeley

Rendering of the planned Bakar BioEnginuity Hub

Berkeley’s bold new home for innovation, entrepreneurship

05/11/21 — Bakar BioEnginuity Hub will rent space to science-based startups, and provide campus programs for scholars and researchers

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.

EECS professor Michael Jordan named to Royal Society

05/06/21 — Jordan is among 10 foreign members, 52 fellows and one honorary fellow elected to the academy.

The robot surgeon will see you now

05/03/21 New York Times — Real scalpels, artificial intelligence — what could go wrong? That's what the researchers and doctors in Ken Goldberg's lab aim to find out.

A newborn infant receives supplemental warming while getting skin-to-skin contact with the mother

Infant-warming device proven safe, effective

04/29/21 Berkeley Lab — Technology developed by Ashok Gadgil's team shows a big drop in infant mortality in Rwanda hospitals

Video frame showing children on seesaw amid differing levels of air pollution

New studies of deadly air pollutant document environmental inequality

04/28/21 Washington Post — “The deck is stacked against people of color,” says civil and environmental engineering assistant professor Joshua Apte

Berkeley engineers win Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times Awards

04/27/21 — Nine engineering teaching groups were honored for innovations in remote instruction

Berkeley Lab scientists Leticia Arnedo-Sanchez (from left), Katherine Shield, Korey Carter, and Jennifer Wacker wearing protective masks, in front of graphics of the atomic structure of cerium and einsteinium

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.

wearable biosensors in armband as hand makes gestures

Read my hand

04/26/21 — A wearable device that uses biosensors and AI can recognize hand gestures based on electrical signals detected in the forearm.

M.E.T. program celebrates first graduating class

04/26/21 — Thirty-two students will be among the group completing dual bachelor’s degrees in engineering and business in just four years.