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Shilpi Mathrani working for startup Mango Materials as part of the Bio-Manufacturing to Market program.

A key to careers in biomedical and biotech fields

02/26/16 — For career-focused students, the biomedical industry can seem like an exclusive club. But UC Berkeley's Bio-Manufacturing to Market program holds the key, providing internships that connect science and engineering undergrads with biomedical and biotech startups in the East Bay.

How deep learning gives us a precise picture of all the water on earth

02/26/16 MIT Technology Review — Scientists are using artificial intelligence to help them achieve precise, dynamic measurements of water levels around the world. CEE professor Steven Glaser says most current water models are based on readings from the last 50 years.

Sutardja Center Fellow David Law with Imprint Energy Co-founder and CEO Christine Ho

Imprint Energy challenges students to build a better battery

02/25/16 Sutardja Center — Imprint CEO Christine Ho (B.S'05, M.S'07, Ph.D'10 MSE) returned to campus as part of the Sutardja Center's Collider program, which challenges students to work on cutting-edge research projects with industry.

ME student team wins cleantech prize

02/25/16 — Students in mechanical engineering professor Hayden Taylor's group have won the $100,000 grand prize in the Berkeley Cleantech University Prize competition for their development of an omniphobic coating that can boost air conditioner efficiency.

Diane Greene tops list of powerful women engineers

02/24/16 Business Insider — Tech entrepreneur Diane Greene (M.S.'88 EECS) is the #1 pick of Business Insider in its National Engineers Week salute to influential women engineers, honored for her selection by Google to run its cloud computing business. Also on the list is #3 Tara Bunch (B.S.'85 ME), VP of operations at Apple.

EECS’ Nir Yosef among 8 new Sloan fellows on campus

02/24/16 — Eight UC Berkeley assistant professors, including Nir Yosef of EECS, are among 126 new Sloan Research Fellows, honoring early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars.

CEE’s William Tarpeh honored as a young innovator

02/19/16 NBC — Environmental engineering Ph.D. student William Tarpeh, whose work promotes sustainable sanitation in developing countries, was selected by NBC News as one of the NBCBLK28 - innovators and game changers who are "young, gifted, and unapologetically Black."

Young Berkeley Engineering faculty members honored by White House

02/19/16 — President Obama this week named three young UC Berkeley faculty members, including EECS associate professors Pieter Abbeel and Sayeef Salahuddin, as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.

Building a rescue roach

02/18/16 New York Times — Humans may never eliminate cockroaches, but they could learn enough from them to build robots that crawl through rubble to look for survivors or gather information after disasters, according to scientists at UC Berkeley's PolyPEDAL Lab.

CEO Liz Klinger and the Lioness vibrator

Like GPS for your sex drive

02/17/16 — Our phones are smart. Our cars are smart. And now, thanks to SkyDeck-based Lioness and its Berkeley Engineering grads, even vibrators can be smart, providing the data a woman needs to reach her destination free of detours, traffic tie-ups and road rage.

Getting more women into tech careers (and why it matters)

02/16/16 — In an EECS colloquium, Harvey Mudd College President Maria Klawe talks about how to increase the number of women in technology.

The Eel River in the Angelo Coast Range Reserve

The critical zone: Studying where all of life happens

02/16/16 — Sally Thompson, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, directs an interdisciplinary group of researchers studying northern California's Eel River.

Ben Horowitz talks honesty, failure and secrets

02/12/16 Sutardja Center — Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz shared life lessons with students - including the likelihood that your great discovery will spring from a big mistake.

New app turns smartphones into worldwide seismic network

02/12/16 — UC Berkeley scientists are releasing a free Android app that taps a smartphone's ability to record ground shaking from an earthquake, with the goal of creating a worldwide seismic detection and warning network.

UC Berkeley and SuitX team, winner of UAE AI and Robotics for Good Award

SuitX wins $1M at “Robotics for Good”

02/10/16 Cult of Android — The suitX team designing medical exoskeletons for children with cerebral palsy, led by mechanical engineering professor Homayoon Kazerooni, won the $1 million international grand prize at the “Robotics for Good” competition in Dubai.

Berkeley to lead $25M nuclear security research consortium

02/09/16 — A new $25 million grant from the National Nuclear Security Administration puts UC Berkeley at the head of a multi-institution consortium focused on research that supports nuclear science, national security and nuclear nonproliferation.

Enlargement shows weak points in a thin polycrystalline graphene sheet

Graphene is strong, but is it tough?

02/09/16 Berkeley Lab — Berkeley Lab scientists led by Robert Ritchie, professor of materials science and mechanical engineering, have determined that superstrong polycrystalline graphene is not very resistant to fracture, which could limit its usefulness.