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Five new hires in the Climate Equity and Environmental Justice cluster

New faculty cluster to focus on climate change, environmental justice

09/02/21 — CNR: Five assistant professors, including civil and environmental engineering's Maya Carrasquillo, will bring their disparate perspectives to research on battling the “climate gap”

Stock photo of light shining through a window revealing smoke

How much wildfire smoke is infiltrating our homes?

09/01/21 — Berkeley News: Environmental engineers used crowdsourced data to measure indoor air quality during California’s wildfires.

Frame capture from video about making plastics self-destruct

How to make plastic truly biodegradable

08/31/21 — Professor Ting Xu and her students have come up with a solution for the global problem of single-use plastics: embed enzymes so that the unwanted plastic can self-destruct with a little heat and water

Microbatteries that make sense

08/31/21 — Bakar Fellows: EECS professor Kristofer Pister's research shows how embedding batteries on a chip could enable wearable sensors

Sather Gate viewed through a flexed piece of transparent monolayer semiconductor material

LED material shines under strain

08/26/21 — Berkeley Lab: EECS professor Ali Javey's team has devised a simple tactic to increase the efficiency and brightness of LED devices

A driving force behind mixed-autonomy traffic

08/26/21 — Amazon Science: Alexandre Bayen's research, combining machine learning with big data, looks at how coordinated automation could improve traffic flow, boost efficiency and slash emissions

Photo illustration of sugar cubes over cosmic background

NASA sweetens the pot

08/26/21 — Berkeley team of chemists and engineer wins CO2 Conversion Challenge to make sugar in space from carbon dioxide

NIST staff members examine pieces of concrete removed from the debris pile

Berkeley-affiliated experts lead probe of Florida condo collapse

08/26/21 — National Institute of Standards and Technology investigation leaders include CEE alumni Judith Mitrani-Reiser and Glenn Bell and professor Jack Moehle

Modeled simulation of Florida condo collapse

Mosalam provides key analysis of Surfside condo collapse

08/18/21 — Civil engineering professor Khalid Mosalam used 3-D modeling and simulations to assess the tragic collapse of a high-rise Florida condominium for a Washington Post investigation.

Illustration of how EarEEG-based interface could deliver instructions via Bluetooth

Earbuds that read your mind

08/18/21 — Bakar Fellows: EECS assistant professor Rikky Muller has developed comfortable earbuds that detect and record brain activity, a platform technology that could support consumer and health monitoring apps

High school students mark end of ROAR Academy with celebratory race

08/17/21 — Parts of the UC Berkeley campus were converted into a racecourse for high school students on Saturday (Aug. 14) as part of a Robot Open Autonomous Racing (ROAR) competition. The event capped the summer ROAR Academy in which dozens of students worked with autonomous driving algorithms and tested them in Python-based environments. The ROAR competition […]

Using machine learning to detect early-stage cancers

08/16/21 — Berkeley researchers develop algorithm for method that identifies cancer from blood tests, well before first symptoms are present.

Researchers demonstrate new semiconductor device possibilities using black phosphorus

08/11/21 — Material's "magical" properties under stress and strain could help meet growing demand in optical communications and more

American Indian Graduate Program commencement

NSF awards $10M to higher ed alliance to increase Indigenous participation

08/06/21 Blum Center — Berkeley's Blum Center for Developing Economies will be a primary beneficiary, expanding its food, energy and water systems work in Native American communities

UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech and USC launch new National AI Research Institute

07/29/21 — NSF awards $20M for researchers to deploy AI to tackle massive optimization challenges

The art of engineering

07/20/21 — Berkeley Engineering alum blurs the line between art and science

Image from space of the Indian subcontinent.

Using satellite images to improve human lives

07/20/21 — Machine-learning breakthrough from Berkeley-based project could support action worldwide on climate, health and poverty

Animation of magnet pulling binary numbers

Berkeley scientists create world’s thinnest magnet

07/20/21 — Room-temperature 2D magnet could advance applications in computing and electronics

BRAVO research participant communicates through brain activity translated by a neural network.

From brain waves to words

07/19/21 UCSF — Neuroprosthesis breakthrough from joint Berkeley-UCSF bioengineering program restores words to man with paralysis

It that a flying saucer? Nope, it’s CalSol’s Zephyr

07/19/21 Bay Area News Group — The CalSol student team departs in a week for the Midwest, solar car in tow, to compete in the 5-day, 1,000-mile American Solar Challenge — the team’s first return to competition after more than a year sidelined by the pandemic