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French tenis player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga wipes sweat from his face during the Australian Open.

Wearable sensor can collect data from sweat

02/01/16 New York Times — Berkeley engineers have created a flexible, wearable sensor that can collect data about multiple chemicals in body sweat. The device could help people monitor conditions like dehydration and fatigue in real time, said EECS professor Ali Javey.
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Berkeley-led consortium receives grant to research nuclear energy, security

02/01/16 Daily Californian — The multi-university Nuclear Science and Security Consortium, led by UC Berkeley and headed by nuclear engineering professor Jasmina Vujic, has received another $25 million federal grant to research nuclear energy and security, aimed at attracting young scholars to the field.
Rachel Gerver

Five questions for development engineer Rachel Gerver

01/29/16 Blum Center — Rachel Gerver (Ph.D.'14 BioE), among the first generation of UC Berkeley students in development engineering, talks about her background and her interest in getting new medical technologies to market, where they can have an impact on patients' lives.
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The road to sustainability

01/28/16 CNBC — In a new video series on sustainable energy, civil and environmental engineering professor Arpad Horvath compares the environmental footprints of emerging transportation technologies, from biofuels and high-speed rail to maritime shipping and aviation.
Boot camp participants practice active listening skills

Dilbert’s lessons in entrepreneurship (and failure)

01/27/16 Sutardja Center — Dilbert creator (and serial entrepreneur) Scott Adams shared stories of his successes and, more important, his failures with participants in the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship boot camp earlier this month.
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11 body parts grown in the lab

01/26/16 LiveScience — A roundup of recent successes in cultivating human body structures ranges from fallopian tubes to 3D-printed ears to the heart muscle cells, grown in Berkeley bioengineer Jay Keasling's lab, that could speed the screening of drugs.
Ana Claudia Arias in the lab with a student

Super small science

01/26/16 NSF/NBC — You may have nanotechnology in your pocket and not even know it. In a video feature on nanotechnology's everyday impacts, EECS associate professor Ana Claudia Arias talks about her work with flexible sensors.
Tester operating an industrial grinder while wearing an exoskeleton

I wore an exoskeleton that gave me super strength

01/26/16 Time — Ekso Bionics, which grew out of Berkeley Engineering's Robotic and Human Engineering Lab, is working on an exoskeleton that can help workers lift and use heavy power tools for long stretches of time by literally taking the weight off their backs.
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The strange rituals of tech intern recruiting

01/25/16 The Atlantic — At Berkeley Engineering, the on-campus presentations by Silicon Valley companies mean free t-shirts, free food, and lots of stories about meditation and disco balls.
Exoskeleton from Ekso Bionics

Finding the solution by changing the problem

01/19/16 ZDNet — On their way to launching Ekso Bionics, engineers at Berkeley's Robotic and Human Engineering Lab faced problems with noise, smell and weight as they struggled to develop an exoskeleton for military use. They succeeded by inverting the problem - starting from scratch and viewing the project from a new angle.
Gleb Budman and Backblaze servers

The backup generator

01/19/16 Berkeley Haas — When Gleb Budman (B.S.'95 ME) and his co-founders launched Backblaze, an online-backup service, in 2007, they were determined not to raise capital. The bootstrapping gamble paid off, leading to custom-built servers that have made Backblaze a standout in the field.
Michael Carroll (Photo by Sharon M. Steinman)

Former ME professor Michael Carroll passes away

01/19/16 — Professor Michael Carroll, who taught mechanical engineering at Berkeley from 1965 until 1988 before becoming dean of engineering at Rice University, died January 17 in Houston, after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease and cancer.
Baoxia Mi in lab

Filtering water with graphene

01/15/16 — CEE professor Baoxia Mi is developing a more efficient water filtration membrane constructed from graphene oxide, a carbon-based material that's made from naturally-occurring graphite, the same material found in pencils.