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Berkeley Engineer magazine Spring 2023

Spring 2023 magazine

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Bronze bust of mechanical engineer Joseph Thomas Gier in the Blum Hall courtyard

‘Shoulders to stand on’

09/22/23 — Daily Cal: Statue of Berkeley engineer Joseph Thomas Gier, UC system's first tenured Black professor, unveiled in Blum Hall courtyard
Arc Institute

Iain Clark selected as Innovation Investigator by Arc Institute

09/20/23 — Berkeley Engineering professor awarded $1M to pursue “curiosity-driven” research
Photo of EECS professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli.

Q&A: Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli on co-founding Cadence and Synopsys

09/20/23 DIGITIMES Asia — DIGITIMES Asia: Berkeley Engineering professor recounts establishing the world's two largest electronic design automation companies, shares innovative projects that he is pursuing
A view of McLaughlin flanked by red and orange leaves.

U.S. News ranks Berkeley Engineering undergrad programs No. 3

09/18/23 — Berkeley ties with Georgia Tech as nation’s top public program in engineering
Inioluwa Deborah Raji and Stuart Russell

Inioluwa Deborah Raji and Stuart Russell among TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI

09/13/23 TIME Magazine — TIME Magazine: Berkeley engineers grapple with the ethical and safety issues related to AI
Image of an electric vehicle lithium-ion battery pack.

Berkeley engineer Gerbrand Ceder leads new consortium to make batteries for EVs more sustainable

09/13/23 Berkeley Lab — Berkeley Lab: Breakthrough battery technology could ramp up domestic supply chain of critical minerals driving clean energy transition
Cruise autonomous taxi operating on a San Francisco street.

‘Robo-taxi takeover’ hits speed bumps

09/08/23 — Scientific American: Berkeley transportation engineer Steven Shladover says a lack of safety data available to the public is one reason the reality of self-driving cars doesn’t yet match the hype
Photo of blue sky with white clouds.

Berkeley engineers partner with Siemens Energy on $3.7M DOE project to explore direct air capture for carbon sequestration

09/07/23 — Nationwide project intends to advance research in climate change mitigation
Photo of a whale

Can we talk to whales?

09/06/23 The New Yorker — The New Yorker: Berkeley engineer Shafi Goldwasser explores how artificial intelligence may allow us to speak to other species
Sanjam Garg, Ronald Fearing and Phillip Messersmith

Three Berkeley Engineering professors selected for Bakar Fellows Spark Awards

08/31/23 Berkeley News — Awards will provide support for innovative research in cryptography, robotics and medicine
Photo of highly social Egyptian fruit bats in a tightly clustered group.

Bat study reveals how the brain is wired for collective behavior

08/30/23 Berkeley News — Berkeley News: Berkeley engineers find that the same neurons that help bats navigate through space may also help them navigate collective social environments
Photo of female engineer wearing hard hat and holding a tablet.

Berkeley Engineering to offer new online master’s degree for career growth

08/29/23 — Flexible, streamlined curriculum to help professionals keep pace with rapid advances in technology fields
Ashok Gadgil standing on a boat

Ashok Gadgil wins inaugural R&D Leader of the Year award

08/24/23 — R&D World magazine cited the distinguished professor's 30+ years of innovations that profoundly benefited low-resource communities
Research participant, sitting in a wheelchair, is connected by wires to a computer and monitor that displays an avatar. A research coordinator can be seen walking behind the monitor, and in the foreground, someone is holding a laptop computer.

Novel brain implant helps paralyzed woman speak using a digital avatar

08/23/23 — Berkeley engineers explain how advances in AI could help restore natural communication
Photo of various coral species living in the ocean.

Cryotechnology developed by Berkeley engineers unlocks new approach to coral preservation

08/23/23 — Smithsonian: Successfully cooling and thawing coral fragments key to global conservation milestone for vanishing coral reefs
Volunteer surveying homes destroyed by wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii.

Why deadly fire risks are multiplying

08/21/23 — Washington Post: Large wildfires are happening more often because the hazards that trigger them — dry conditions, strong winds, plenty of stuff to burn — are becoming more common, says Michael Gollner, head of Berkeley's Fire Research Lab
Image of stickers that say, "I voted."

Should we take election forecasts seriously? A computer scientist says yes

08/17/23 — CDSS: Heading into the 2024 presidential election cycle, election forecaster and Berkeley Engineering alum Lakshya Jain shares how computing has changed political prediction efforts
Photo illustration of fog on steel nanoengineered mesh used for harvesting and purifying water droplets.

Scientists develop parallel method for fog harvesting and water treatment

08/17/23 — Nanoengineered meshes powered by sunlight work continuously to collect water and remove pollutants
Dean Liu smiles as she listens to a guest wearing a mask at a college event.

New academic year marks Tsu-Jae King Liu’s second term as Berkeley Engineering dean

08/01/23 — In announcing the reappointment, which took effect July 1, campus leaders highlighted Liu's exceptional leadership of the college
Richard Simpson

Richard Simpson, pioneering safety regulator, dies

07/27/23 — Washington Post: Simpson (B.S.'56 EECS), founding chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, was 93
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