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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Farewell
04/26/21 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
With flexibility comes possibility
04/26/21 — Flexibility to adapt to adversity — like creating lab kits for students during the pandemic — relies on discretionary resources like the Berkeley Engineering Fund.
New & noteworthy
04/26/21 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.