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Winter 2024 magazine

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Water is dropped on the advancing Palisades Fire by helicopter in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.

UC Berkeley researchers offer insights into the Los Angeles fires

01/13/25 — Scholars discuss the fires’ causes and impacts on health, housing and the path ahead

Jelani Nelson considers human thought with computer science tools

01/08/25 — CDSS: Chair of UC Berkeley’s Computer Science Division is keeping the curricula ‘fresh’

$A 3D fractal tree antenna fabricated using charge programmed multi-material 3D printing (CPD).$

Tuning in to the possibilities of 3D-printed antenna technology

01/08/25 — A new additive manufacturing platform could revolutionize how antennas are printed and open a range of design possibilities

Berkeley Engineering’s 2024 in review

12/18/24 — Nine of our most impactful stories

Grace Gu named ‘game-changing’ researcher in materials science

12/12/24 — Nature: She is recognized for using techniques such as machine learning to design composite materials

Mark Asta is at the podium of Berkeley Engineering

Mark Asta to serve as interim dean of Berkeley Engineering

12/11/24 — Appointment, announced today, will be for the 2025-26 academic year

Homayoon Kazerooni elected to the National Academy of Inventors

12/10/24 — A leading expert in robotics and human-machine systems, he has created medical exoskeletons that enable paralyzed individuals to stand and walk

Flame spreading over a 12.7 mm sample at 19.8% oxygen under 60 kPa ambient pressure in microgravity.

NASA-funded project offers new insights into fire behavior in space

12/09/24 — Testing in microgravity reveals materials can burn at lower-than-expected oxygen levels

Professor Joshua Apte measures air quality aboard a diesel train bound for San Jose from San Francisco. (Photo by Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering)

Unequal burden

12/02/24 — Joshua Apte studies how air pollutants impact different communities — and what kind of policies might improve equity in public health

Professor Rebecca Abergel peers through a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner at Berkeley Lab

In sickness and in health

11/25/24 — Rebecca Abergel explores the promise of nuclear medicine

Multiple issues of the 2024 Winter Berkeley Engineer magazine laid out in a grid

Winter magazine is here

11/20/24 — Latest Berkeley Engineer features stories on air quality disparities and advancements in nuclear medicine

In a twist

11/20/24 — Researchers have demonstrated the world’s first micromachine that can twist 2D materials at will.

Dean Liu shakes hands with Chancellor Lyons

Innovation with impact

11/20/24 — Our faculty, students and alumni have made pioneering contributions that helped form the hardware backbone of AI.

Rising to new heights

11/20/24 — The Engineering Center continues to take shape on campus.

Farewell

11/20/24 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

SpaceCAL 3D printer awaiting June 2024 launch on VSS Unity; Taylor Waddell (inset)

Manufacturing in microgravity

11/20/24 — Berkeley researchers sent their 3D printing technology to space as part of the Virgin Galactic 07 mission.

A helicopter dropping water on a California wildfire in rugged terrain, backlit by a setting sun filtered through multiple layers of smoke.

Burning questions

11/20/24 — A new wildfire simulation model sheds light on how fires spread through communities in the wildland-urban interface.

Students using a microscope as a professor and two other students look on

Where inspiration meets innovation

11/20/24 — With your gift to Berkeley Engineering, you can fuel innovation and change.

Illustration of a person with the earbuds that can help them stay awake. Illustration by Adobe Stock and Adam Lau

Staying alert

11/20/24 — Engineers have designed earbuds that can detect signs of drowsiness in the brain.

long exposure traffic motion. night city scene. multi exposure.

Q+A on AI and traffic management

11/20/24 — HumanLight is a traffic signal control algorithm that uses AI to prioritize the throughput of people, rather than vehicles, at intersections.