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Daniel Kammen named senior adviser to USAID

10/21/21 — Kammen, who holds joint appointments in energy and resources, public policy and nuclear engineering, will serve as senior adviser for energy, climate and innovation for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Bat study reveals secrets of the social brain

10/21/21 — Research led by bioengineer Michael Yartsev provides the first glimpse into how the brains of social mammals process complex group interactions

AI pioneer Stuart Russell named 2021 Reith Lecturer

10/14/21 — Premier series of annual lectures, sponsored by the BBC, aims to advance public understanding and discourse of the major issues confronting the world

Berkeley engineers named American Physical Society Fellows

10/13/21 — The honor recognizes the outstanding contributions to physics by Lane Martin and Kristin Persson, both professors in the Department of Materials Science.

Berkeley Engineering launches aerospace major

10/06/21 — New discipline debuts in fall 2022

NextProf Nexus workshop prepares next generation of engineering faculty

10/06/21 — Annual workshop seeks to diversify STEM academic careers by giving senior-level Ph.D. candidates, postdocs and young scientists the tools they need to thrive

Can bats help us design a better driverless car?

10/05/21 — Bakar Fellows: Bioengineer Michael Yartsev is translating bats’ neurological "rules of the road" into computational algorithms to guide development of navigation systems for driverless cars

Kathy Yelick standing in Hearst Memorial Mining Building

Kathy Yelick named vice chancellor for research

09/30/21 — UC Berkeley computer scientist, an active scholar, teacher and leader on campus and at Berkeley Lab for three decades, will assume her new role on Jan. 1, 2022

Jay Keasling receives Distinguished Scientist Fellow award

09/23/21 — Berkeley Lab: Bioengineer and senior faculty scientist is honored by DOE for scientific leadership and engagement with the academic and research communities

Seven Berkeley engineers honored as 2022 Siebel Scholars

09/23/21 — They are among 82 exceptional students from the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, and bioengineering.

Illustration of heart tissue in isochoric chamber

Cold-hearted science: Supercooling technique advances preservation of human tissue

09/22/21 — Berkeley researchers revive human heart tissue that had been supercooled at subfreezing temperatures for days, showing promise of technique that could be a game-changer for organ transplants and medical research.

Lessons from Hurricane Ida

09/21/21 — Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, associate professor of civil engineering and co-leader of an NSF-funded geotechnical reconnaissance team that traveled to Louisiana, shares her observations about the impact of Hurricane Ida

Engineering student receives rare Generation Change Scholarship

09/21/21 — Sariel Sandoval, a Native American from Montana, gets award for domestic, non-resident students who are game changers, trailblazers, solution seekers and revolutionaries.

NSF awards $12.75M to renew natural hazards simulation center

09/20/21 — The four-year grant to the SimCenter supports research to understand and quantify the effects of natural hazards on buildings, lifelines and communities.

Berkeley’s undergrad engineering programs ranked No. 2 nationwide

09/13/21 — Latest U.S. News & World Report national rankings maintain Berkeley’s tie with Stanford

Graduate student Tianshi Wang and Prof. Jaijeet Roychowdhury with their 2019 Bell Labs Prize

Engineers pursue novel way to tackle some of today’s hardest computations

09/07/21 — Bakar Fellows: Graduate student Tianshi Wang and EECS professor Jaijeet Roychowdhury invented a novel type of computer that rapidly and efficiently solves combinatorial optimization problems

San Francisco skyline seen through brown haze

New study shows how air pollution varies block by block

09/07/21 — Researchers used Google Street View cars to show that levels of air pollution vary not only by region, such as between urban and rural areas, but also by city street

With a damp TV, Berkeley engineers demonstrate the potential of a green energy harvester

09/06/21 — Researchers report that moisture-induced energy harvesting could be a potential new source of power, particularly in areas of naturally high humidity

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 — Environmental engineers used crowdsourced data to measure indoor air quality during California’s wildfires.