Q+A on the future of food
05/01/19 — Ricardo San Martin weighs in on the alternative meat industry and the challenges of developing plant-based meats.
News
Going to extremes
05/01/19 — Researchers have developed a thermal regulator that improves the performance of lithium-ion batteries in extreme temperatures.
Detecting superbugs
05/01/19 — DETECT is a test that can quickly identify strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria by recognizing specific enzymes in urine samples.
Sensors get flexible
05/01/19 — Researchers have created a flexible sensor that can be used over large areas of skin, tissue and organs to detect blood-oxygen levels.
New hydrogen fuel catalyst
05/01/19 — Engineers used gelatin to create a hydrogen fuel catalyst that works just as efficiently as platinum but at a much lower cost.
Football and the teenage brain
05/01/19 — A new study shows that a single season of high school football may cause microscopic changes in the structure of the brain.
Shifting gears
05/01/19 — The integration of self-driving vehicles requires policy decisions that consider how travel behavior will shift with the introduction of new mobility choices.
Going with the Flow
05/01/19 — Researchers have developed a machine-learning tool to manage traffic where autonomous, partially-automated and manual vehicles share the road.
New & noteworthy
05/01/19 — Class notes and other updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni and faculty.
Eli Yablonovitch wins Franklin Medal
05/01/19 — Eli Yablonovitch was awarded the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering.
Alum’s breakthrough endometriosis test
05/01/19 — Heather Bowerman's company, DotLab, has developed the first non-invasive test for endometriosis.
Farewell
05/01/19 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering faculty and alumni
Vasuki Swamy named 2019 Marconi scholar
04/30/19 Marconi Society — Vasuki Narasimha Swamy (Ph.D. '18 EECS) has been named a 2019 Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award for her work to design robust wireless protocol frameworks for ultra-reliable low-latency communications.
UC Berkeley expands responsible data and computer sciences curriculum
04/30/19 — The Responsible Computer Science Challenge, an ambitious $3.5 million initiative, has chosen UC Berkeley as one of its inaugural awardees. The award will support UC Berkeley faculty and students in computer science, social science, and humanities to develop and scale Berkeley's groundbreaking ethics curriculum for data science and computer science.
Master plan survey highlights hot – and less-than-hot – spots at Berkeley Engineering
04/26/19 — Berkeley Engineering is working with the architectural design firm Payette to update the college's facilities master plan. Results from a February 2019 survey of faculty, staff and students are a key part of that process.
Squishy robots can drop from a helicopter and land safely
04/24/19 — New soccer-ball-shaped robots, created by engineers at Berkeley and Squishy Robotics, can fall hundreds of feet and be no worse for wear, or shape-shift in order to crawl from one point to another.
Stuart Russell is a 2019 Carnegie Fellow
04/23/19 Carnegie Corporation — Stuart Russell, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, was named a 2019 Carnegie Fellow. He was recognized for his artificial intelligence work.
On rebuilding Notre Dame
04/19/19 — CEE professor Matthew De Jong discusses the proposed reconstruction of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral.
A robot that can be safely dropped out of a helicopter
04/18/19 Tech Crunch — Squishy Robotics, developed in part by mechanical engineering professor Alice Agogino, may someday help first responders assess a situation before they jump into it.
Elwyn Berlekamp, game theorist and coding pioneer, dies
04/18/19 — Elwyn Berlekamp, professor emeritus of mathematics and of EECS, developed error-correcting codes that allowed spacecraft from Voyager to the Hubble Space Telescope to send accurate and detailed images back to Earth.