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Berkeley advisors share advice with students amid tech layoffs

03/21/23 — CDSS: This year’s data and computer science graduates are urged to embrace a more nuanced job market view

Image of heteropolymers designed to mimic the properties of natural proteins.

Berkeley engineers develop synthetic polymers that mimic the body’s natural proteins

03/20/23 — Alternative polymers work as well as real proteins and are easier to synthesize, a possible game-changer for biomedical applications

Headshots of Joshua Hug on the left, and Abigail de Kosnik on the right.

Berkeley Engineering faculty win 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award

03/17/23 — Joshua Hug, EECS teaching professor, and Abigail De Kosnik, director of the Berkeley Center for New Media, are among five to receive the prestigious honor

Image of digital lights mimicking the shape of a human brain.

AI lectures at Berkeley to explore possibilities, implications of ChatGPT

03/10/23 — Artificial intelligence experts from Berkeley and beyond will explore the ramifications of ChatGPT on science and society in a spring lecture series

Scanning transmission electron microscope images reveal the elemental distribution in a “disordered” solid electrolyte: Top row: titanium (Ti), zirconium (Zr), and tin (Sn); bottom row: hafnium (Hf), phosphorus (P), and oxygen (O). Scale bar: 50 nanometers.

On the road to better solid-state batteries

03/01/23 — Berkeley Lab: Berkeley engineers help design a new blueprint for solid-state batteries that may lead to greater efficiency and affordability

Photo of Ricky Muller and Jaijeet Roychowdhury, professors of electrical engineering and computer sciences and 2023 Bakar Prize winners

Rikky Muller and Jaijeet Roychowdhury named 2023 Bakar Prize winners

02/22/23 — Electrical engineering and computer sciences professors among four Berkeley faculty to be awarded additional resources to help translate their discoveries into real-world solutions

Hari Balakrishnan awarded 2023 Marconi Prize

02/22/23 — Berkeley Engineering alum, innovator and entrepreneur honored for the broad societal impact of his discoveries in mobile sensing, networking and distributed systems

Artist’s rendering of a copper nanoparticle as it evolves during CO2 electrolysis: Copper nanoparticles (left) combine into larger metallic copper “nanograins” (right) within seconds of the electrochemical reaction, reducing CO2 into new multicarbon products.

Scientists reveal how copper catalyst converts CO₂ into liquid fuels

02/16/23 — Berkeley Lab: Berkeley engineers capture real-time movies of copper nanoparticles as they convert carbon dioxide and water into renewable fuels and chemicals, gaining valuable insights

Angjoo Kanazawa named a 2023 Sloan Research Fellow

02/15/23 — Assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences is among six young Berkeley faculty honored for their creativity, innovation, research accomplishments and potential to become a leader in their field

Irina Conboy awarded $3 million grant for research on the biology of aging

02/14/23 — Bioengineering professor will use gift from Open Philanthropy to study tissue-specific changes associated with aging and rejuvenation through blood “dilution” techniques in mice

Image of an airplane replicating the aerodynamic nature of mako shark skin.

Evolution on fast forward: Grace Gu engineers AI-optimized, bioinspired materials

02/13/23 — CITRIS: Assistant professor of mechanical engineering takes inspiration from nature and uses machine learning to create more efficient materials

Small model house balancing on cracked asphalt meant to represent an earthquake.

Berkeley Lab and PEER to release advanced Bay Area quake simulations

02/09/23 — Supercomputer-generated simulations will be available on an open-access website, giving the broader earthquake research community and engineers access to critical data

EECS professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli receives Frontiers of Knowledge Award

02/08/23 — Berkeley engineering professor honored for transforming chip design from a handcrafted process to the automated industry that powers today’s electronic devices

Aaron Streets aims to build a pipeline to diversify STEM faculty

02/08/23 — Berkeley bioengineering professor shares his thoughts on ways the Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium can help increase the diversity and quality of applicant pools for faculty roles

Civil and environmental engineering professor Kenichi Soga.

Kenichi Soga named to the NAE

02/07/23 — Berkeley geotechnical engineer receives one of the highest professional honors accorded an American engineer

Black Engineering and Science Alumni Club to host anniversary celebration for BESSA, BGESS

02/03/23 — Celebrating Black excellence and inspiring the next generation of Berkeley engineers

Optical nanoscopy, which uses laser beams to strike free electrons, scattering light and providing insights into electron distribution and dynamics within semiconductor materials. (Image courtesy of Laser Thermal Lab/UC Berkeley)

Researchers develop innovative tool for measuring electron dynamics in semiconductors

02/02/23 — Insights may lead to more energy-efficient chips and electronic devices

Photo of Kristin Persson, Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor of materials science and engineering at UC Berkeley and a senior faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Kristin Persson among 11 Berkeley faculty elected to AAAS

01/31/23 — Professor of materials science and engineering and director of Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry elected a lifetime fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her work on the Materials Project

Energized for real-world impact

01/25/23 — Founded by Berkeley Engineering alumni, Gridware uses sensors to tackle the threat of wildfires

From Ethiopia to Berkeley and back again

01/17/23 — EECS Ph.D. student Tsegereda Esatu, a UC-HBCU Initiative fellow, shares her educational journey and her hopes for bringing semiconductor research to students in Ethiopia