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Home > News > Support Berkeley Engineering
Cover of Berkeley Engineer Fall 24 magazine with two people standing between two Amtrak cars
November 20, 2024
This article appeared in Berkeley Engineer magazine, Winter 2024
  • In this issue
    Professor Joshua Apte measures air quality aboard a diesel train bound for San Jose from San Francisco. (Photo by Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering)

    Unequal burden

    Professor Rebecca Abergel peers through a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner at Berkeley Lab

    In sickness and in health

    A helicopter dropping water on a California wildfire in rugged terrain, backlit by a setting sun filtered through multiple layers of smoke.

    Burning questions

    Dean Liu shakes hands with Chancellor Lyons

    Innovation with impact

    Upfront

    • New glues
    • Staying alert
    • In a twist
    • Rising to new heights
    • On the map
    • A shark of inspiration
    • Q+A on AI and traffic management

    New & noteworthy

    • Manufacturing in microgravity
    • Precision under pressure
    • Farewell
    • Support Berkeley Engineering
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student wearing protecting eyewear and using machinery

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