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Home > News > Where inspiration meets innovation
Students using a microscope as a professor and two other students look onMechanical engineering professor Lydia Sohn and students at the Sohn Research Laboratory. (Photo by Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering)

Where inspiration meets innovation

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
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    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

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