How data can personalize mobile health
08/10/16 — IEOR professor Anil Aswani, in partnership with colleagues from UCSF and Stanford, is investigating how mobile health applications can help individuals live healthier lifestyles.
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Detecting cybersecurity threats by taking the grid’s pulse
08/10/16 IEEE Spectrum — EECS professor Alexandra von Meier and power quality expert Alex McEachern set out to build an advanced power sensor for utility distribution grids, and accidentally produced a promising tool to protect those grids from cyber attack.
ME’s Yeung honored for ocean engineering achievements
08/09/16 — Mechanical engineering professor Ronald Yeung received a lifetime achievement award from ASME's Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering Division, honoring his “contributions to the fields of hydromechanics and ocean engineering as a distinguished scholar.”
How AT&T shaped modern art
08/09/16 Little Atoms — Bell Labs, a trailblazer of scientific innovation, was also a playground for some of the leading avant-garde artists of the 1960s and '70s, thanks to an artist-engineer collective forged by Berkeley professor Billy Klüver (M.S.'55, Ph.D.'57 EECS).
Olympic rower (and engineer) Siegelaar wins Pac-12 scholarship
08/09/16 Cal Sports Quarterly — Olivier Siegelaar (B.S.'13 ME), who is rowing for the Netherlands crew team at the Rio Olympics, is also a 2016 Pac-12 postgrad scholarship recipient, to help him pursue an MBA at Oxford University.
Bringing clean water to Kenya’s largest slum
08/04/16 California magazine — Paul Sagues (M.S.'80 ME), chairman of the Marin-based water systems firm Xio, and energy professor Dan Kammen were part of a high-profile Berkeley-driven team bringing a model clean water project to Kibera, Africa's largest slum.
Spreadsheet tools to help everyone escape from the cell
08/04/16 Financial Times — Alumnus and Microsoft researcher Sumit Gulwani (Ph.D.'05 CS) is behind the development of user-friendly spreadsheet tools that can, in his view, “keep control of the digital divide.”
Lab to lead new watershed study
08/04/16 Berkeley Lab — Geophysicist Susan Hubbard (Ph.D'98 CEE), Berkeley Lab's associate director for earth and environmental sciences, will head up a three-year DOE initiative to quantify how mountainous watershed floods, drought, fire and early snowmelt affect the downstream delivery of water, nutrients, carbon and metals.
Berkeley hosts high school students for cyber training
08/04/16 Campus Technology — A cyber security program sponsored by the National Security Agency has wooed 23 students to attend a six-week course at the Berkeley. The CYBEAR initiative is part of a nationwide effort to introduce K-12 students to safe online behavior and spark their interest in pursuing careers in the field.
Head-Gordon leads Berkeley partnership to improve scientific software
08/04/16 — A nine-university partnership headed by Virginia Tech has launched the Molecular Sciences Software Institute, an NSF-funded program to improve software for the molecular sciences. Bioengineering's Teresa Head-Gordon is the institute's lead scientist at UC Berkeley.
Sprinkling of neural dust opens door to electroceuticals
08/04/16 — Tiny, implantable wireless sensors have been developed by a team led by EECS professors Michel Maharbiz and Jose Carmena. The dust-sized prototypes could stimulate and monitor internal nerves, muscles and organs, as well as introduce the possibility of "electroceuticals" to be used in a wide variety of treatments.
Bringing cutting-edge 3-D printing to Berkeley
08/02/16 Medium — Jacobs Hall, Berkeley's hub for design innovation, welcomed a new addition this spring: an M1 3-D printer from Bay Area company Carbon, which takes a new, photochemical approach to additive manufacturing.
New Berkeley undergraduate program to develop innovative tech leaders, entrepreneurs
08/01/16 — The Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology Program, a new undergraduate offering that integrates the study of engineering and business, is designed to give students a seamless understanding of technology innovation, preparing future leaders who will create real-world impact.
Women in tech: Taking matters into their own hands
07/22/16 Medium — Facing the dearth of women in senior positions in the field, the Women in Technology Leadership Round Table encourages participants to measure what they want to change, and to be bold.
MSE professor emeritus Kal Sastry dies at 74
07/19/16 Daily Californian — Kal Sastry, a materials science and engineering professor emeritus remembered for his unique life philosophies and his love for the Berkeley community, died July 15. He was 74.
CEE professor emeritus Robert Wiegel passes away
07/19/16 — Robert Wiegel, a coastal engineering pioneer, distinguished civil and environmental engineering professor and former acting dean, died on July 14. He was 93.
How secret voice commands in YouTube could hijack your phone
07/18/16 PCWorld — EECS Ph.D. student Nick Carlini, professor David Wagner and a team of Georgetown University researchers have revealed how secret commands could use voice-control tools like Siri and Google Now to take over your smartphone.
Better marching through algorithms
07/15/16 — Using computer code and a little ingenuity, an introductory engineering course helped solve a confounding problem for the Cal Marching Band.
Young makers build prosthetic hands for children in need
07/15/16 — During the college's weeklong Girls in Engineering program, young makers build kid-size prosthetic hands from 3-D-printed parts to donate to children in need.
Blogging the Biodesign Immersion Experience
07/13/16 — An eight-week summer program for Berkeley juniors and seniors, the BIE prepares bioengineers to bridge engineering innovation and unmet clinical needs.