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Searching for the next Stanford: Silicon Valley turns its eyes to Berkeley

05/07/15 re/code — With loads of student-run companies and early access to ideas and research, UC Berkeley is becoming an increasingly attractive option for venture capital investors.

Smartphone video microscope automates detection of parasites

05/06/15 — A UC Berkeley-led research team has developed a mobile phone microscope, based on CellScope technology from bioengineer Daniel Fletcher's lab, that uses video to automatically detect and quantify infection by parasitic worms in a drop of blood.

Award-winning computer scientist opening doors for fellow Latinas

05/05/15 — Data scientist and University of Washington professor Cecilia Aragon co-founded Latinas in Computing, an international professional association that mentors Latinas working in technology, because she believes in numbers.

Collagen in its twisted, curly form

The skinny on skin

05/04/15 Inside Science — A study co-authored by materials science and engineering professor Robert Ritchie has shown, for the first time, that collagen explains the great durability of skin. The finding could help scientists develop better synthetic skin and improve the strength of man-made materials.

Claude Shannon, the creator of Information Theory, and Alan Turing, the creator of modern Computer Science

Through the computational lens

05/01/15 Simons Institute — EECS professor Umesh Vazirani discusses efforts at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing to foster a dialogue between the disciplines of information theory and computer science.

Ting Chuk, Dean Sastry and Pantas Sutardja

Dean’s word: At the intersection of design and entrepreneurship

05/01/15 — The college is building an innovation ecosystem to design, build and launch high-impact ventures.

David Patterson and Carlo Séquin, pictured in 1981.

Simplify: The RISC story

05/01/15 — EECS professors David Patterson and Carlo Séquin, along with the Reduced Instruction Set Computer team, were honored by IEEE for their landmark work from the 1980s.

Seismic song

05/01/15 — Sensors lying on the Hayward Fault, which runs under campus, were connected to lights and sounds for a mid-winter public art show.

Fostering disruptive technologies

05/01/15 — The Bakar Fellows program supports faculty who are trying to translate research into commercialized technologies.

Plutonium and warning labels

Lost and found

05/01/15 — A piece of early atomic history was found in a storage closet.

For clean water

05/01/15 — Susan Amrose is building new technologies to address arsenic contamination in drinking water.

The graphene switch

05/01/15 — New research holds promise for controlling graphene's properties, potentially opening new applications for its use.

Illustration of syntetic biology on Mars

The many frontiers of synthetic biology

05/01/15 — Better drug delivery systems and provisioning deep space missions are among the new ideas emerging from synthetic biology research.

Alumni notes

05/01/15 — Stay caught up with Berkeley Engineering alumni.

Farewell

05/01/15 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering faculty and alumni

Jacobs Hall: New home for design innovation

05/01/15 — Jacobs Hall, the main hub for the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, will open for its first classes this fall.

In the domain of design

05/01/15 — In this special issue, engineering faculty look at how design innovation is used to solve "wicked problems."

Vires Aero wing

Vires Aero

05/01/15 — Vires Aeronautics is developing a new technology to make flight more efficient.

Charvi Shetty and a prototype of her affordable monitoring device.

KNOX Diagnostics

05/01/15 — Knox Diagnostics is a new medical device company that is working on a cheaper and more portable asthma monitoring device.

David Lu and Clarity monitor

Clarity

05/01/15 — Clarity is a wearable air pollution monitoring and reporting device.