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Ribbon-cutting for the Graduate Professional Services Center

Campus opens career center for grad students, post-docs

10/28/15 — With the opening of the Graduate Professional Services Center in Sproul Hall, UC Berkeley graduate students and postdocs now have a place to go for help exploring how their studies can prepare them for career paths, both within and beyond academia.

Graduate student researcher Zack Phillips demonstrating the modified Cellscope

Undergrad research on the rise at Cal

10/27/15 Blum Center — A team of six young EECS students working in the Computational Imaging Lab, whose LED array dome extended the reach of the CellScope microscope, exemplifies the mutual benefits of research by undergraduates at UC Berkeley.

Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute inaugurated in China

10/26/15 — Some 200 guests turned out Oct. 20 for a ceremony to inaugurate the new Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI) in Shenzhen, China. The joint research institute provides a platform for innovative research and graduate student education to fuel economic growth, solve global problems and train industry leaders.

Battling malware from within

10/22/15 PC Magazine — In a keynote address at the MalCon 2015 conference, EECS professor Vern Paxson offered an innovative idea for handling large-scale security problems like malware distribution, fake accounts and spam-spewing botnets: infiltrate the attacker from the outset.

Yablonovitch wins condensed matter physics prize

10/21/15 American Physical Society — EECS professor Eli Yablonovitch, director of the Berkeley-based NSF Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science, has been awarded the 2016 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize by the American Physical Society "for seminal achievements in solar cells and strained quantum well lasers, and especially for creating the field of photonic crystals."

EnableTech: Engineering for accessibility

10/20/15 — The new EnableTech student group aims to develop creative solutions to minimize challenges presented by disability.

Dash launches new toy robot that you desperately need

10/20/15 IEEE Spectrum — Berkeley-born Dash Robotics, home of the serious toy robot, has just launched a brand new one that's easier to build and program and faster than ever: the Kamigami.

Electric field at the edges of a 2D excitonic laser resonator

Exciting breakthrough in 2D lasers

10/20/15 Berkeley Lab — Berkeley Lab researchers, led by mechanical engineering professor Xiang Zhang, have developed an atomically thin excitonic laser, achieving bright light emissions at visible light wavelengths in what could be a major step forward for high-performance optical communication and computing applications.

Birgeneau honored for public service

10/19/15 IGS — Chancellor emeritus Robert Birgeneau, professor of physics and materials science and engineering, has been named the 2015 winner of the Darius and Sarah Anderson Distinguished Service Award by the Institute of Governmental Studies for "advancing the spirit of good government and improving the quality of public affairs."

Build Change founder delivers CEE Distinguished Lecture

10/15/15 — Watch: Alumnus Elizabeth Hausler Strand, the founder and CEO of Build Change, is making homes safer, worldwide.

New executive education programs focus on promoting tech innovation

10/14/15 — Two new executive education programs coming this year from Berkeley Engineering aim to help technology-dependent companies create a work culture that encourages continued innovation.

George Johnson honored for faculty service

10/14/15 — George C. Johnson, professor of mechanical engineering, is one of two UC Berkeley faculty members honored by the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate as joint recipients of the Berkeley Faculty Service Award for 2015.

Khalid Mosalam appointed director of Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center

10/12/15 — Khalid M. Mosalam, Taisei Professor of Civil Engineering at UC Berkeley, has been appointed director of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, a multi-institutional research and education center headquartered at Berkeley.

EECS faculty members awarded NSF grants for cybersecurity research

10/08/15 National Science Foundation — Three EECS faculty members, David Wagner, Dawn Song and Sanjit Seshia, were awarded cybersecurity research grants from the National Science Foundation. The grants are part of NSF's $74.5 million Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program.

Berkeley to lead energy and water consortium

10/05/15 — Berkeley, in partnership with UC Irvine and Berkeley Lab, will lead a five-year, multi-million dollar international research effort to tackle water-related aspects of energy production and use. Civil and environmental engineering professor Ashok Gadgil will head the new consortium.

EECS-linked startups boost entrepreneurship ranking

09/30/15 — With 118 startups under their collective belt, faculty and alumni in EECS have contributed heavily to UC Berkeley's #2 ranking for VC-backed undergraduate entrepreneurs and companies, as measured by the venture-capital research firm PitchBook.