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Light shows the way to build ‘smart’ infrastructure

07/01/20 Berkeley Research — Kenichi Soga, Chancellor's Professor in civil and environmental engineering, is using fiber-optic cables to monitor structures ranging from tunnels to building foundations

Photo illustration of Donald Trump and Joe Biden

Farid: Online disinfo now targeting COVID-19, Black Lives Matter

06/26/20 Futurism — Digital forensics expert and EECS professor Hany Farid lays out the greatest digital threats facing the country, and how to combat them

Berkeley bioengineers discover how tumor cells can mimic Velcro

06/25/20 — Long, membranous microtentacles help tumor cells work their way through brain tissue

Schematic of the fishnet metalens and a closeup of its unit cell.

Engineers create game-changing metalens that breaks records in performance

06/25/20 — World's thinnest, most efficient flat lens delivers focal power over broad band of light

Monitoring COVID-19 prevalence in municipal wastewater

06/24/20 — Samples from a single collection station can reveal clues to how the SARS-CoV-2 virus is circulating in communities

Gerbrand Ceder, Teresa Head-Gordon, Jennifer Listgarten, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Four Berkeley engineers receive awards for COVID-19 research

06/24/20 — C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute announces new funding for projects

Junqiao Wu in the atrium of Hearst Memorial Mining Building

Bakar Prize winner hopes to harness sun’s power

06/22/20 — Junqiao Wu, professor of material science and engineering, awarded campus's new $225,000 prize for real-world potential of his thermal-powered material transformations

Off the scales: Fish armor both tough and flexible

06/22/20 Berkeley Lab — High-tech imaging of carp scales by Berkeley materials scientists reveals remarkable properties that could lead to advanced synthetic materials

Juneteenth reflection

06/19/20 — A message from Dean Tsu-Jae King Liu on working together to create a more just and equal society.

Robot see, robot do, AI-style

06/17/20 Engadget — Berkeley Engineering researchers, in collaboration with an Intel team, have taught a surgical robot to suture by showing it surgical videos of actual doctors.

Margo Seltzer, Keith Bostic and Mike Olson

BerkeleyDB wins 2020 SIGMOD Systems Award

06/15/20 — The creators of BerkeleyDB have won the 2020 Association for Computing Machinery SIGMOD Systems Award for their "seminal work" on the revolutionary software library.

Slide of mouse muscle fibers before and after plasma rejuvenation therapy

Diluting blood plasma rejuvenates tissue, reverses aging in mice

06/15/20 — A new study led bu bioengineering professor Irina Conboy suggests that plasma exchange could be the key to unlocking the body’s regenerative capacities

Michel Maharbiz delivering his TEDMED talk

Using neural dust to eavesdrop on our organs

06/11/20 — In this TEDMED talk, EECS professor Michel Maharbiz describes using extremely miniaturized implants to get a closer look at organs in real time

Researcher creates machine learning tool to help scientists locate materials needed for innovations

05/08/20 — Kristin Persson leads the Materials Project, an open-access online database to assist scientists searching for the next big thing in batteries, solar cells, and computer chips

Scientists invent new ways to peer into the earliest stages of life

04/30/20 — Thanks to research led by Amy Herr, scientists can examine the crucial period when RNA molecules tell cells what they should do

Materials sciences professor Ramamoorthy Ramesh named to Royal Society

04/29/20 — Ramesh has created nanosized materials that can power small electrical devices with minimal amounts of energy

Berkeley Center for New Media to join the College of Engineering

04/29/20 — BCNM will officially move to the college on July 1

Students’ shoebox-sized satellite gets green light for launch

04/29/20 — Team from campus aerospace club, led by EECS sophomore, gets NASA support for QubeSat launch next year

Four lead researchers with masks standing outside.

Putting coronavirus antibody tests to the test

04/25/20 Berkeley News — Berkeley bioengineer Patrick Hsu and colleagues at UCSF found flaws in many of the 14 serology tests evaluated.

Researchers lead federal efforts to improve COVID-19 testing

04/24/20 — Rebecca Abergel, Paul Adams, and Adam Arkin are overseeing projects designed to boost coronavirus diagnostic technology