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.
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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.
Coming to light
04/26/21 — Professor Kenichi Soga’s advanced sensor technology could change the way we monitor infrastructure, agriculture and other complex systems.
A new twist
04/26/21 — By stacking and twisting graphene layers, researchers have converted a linear material into one with non-linear capabilities crucial to technology.
Q+A on the future of our cities
04/26/21 — Professor Marta González discusses how the pandemic and climate change are affecting urban areas.
The health lab in your pocket
04/26/21 — A COVID-19 test that uses CRISPR is professor Dan Fletcher’s latest transformation of cell phones into mobile diagnostic tools.
Cultivating female coders in Africa
04/26/21 — Graduate student Gloria Tumushabe has launched Afro Fem Coders, a remote coding program for women in Africa.
Dean’s note: Next-gen engineering leaders
04/26/21 — The myriad challenges of the past year underscore the significance of better preparing our students to become engineering leaders.
Bring in the reinforcements
04/26/21 — A team of engineers have developed a new way to reinforce concrete using a 3D printer to build octet lattices out of polymer.
Unraveled
04/26/21 — Bioengineers have created a microfluidic platform that can be used to unravel and image lengthy strands of DNA.