Electric trains quieter, more reliable — and healthier, study finds 04/16/25 — Electrifying SF Bay Area’s Caltrain line was shown to reduce riders’ exposure to carcinogenic black carbon by an average of 89%
UC Berkeley’s Marvell NanoLab gets high-tech boost with Lam Research gift 04/16/25 — Sophisticated etching system enables atomic-scale precision for next-generation chips
Don’t sweat it! 04/15/25 — Wearable sweat sensor can track your hydration status during physical and mental activities
Berkeley Engineering ranked No. 3 grad program in the nation by U.S. News 04/07/25 — Berkeley remains top public engineering program
Researchers explore connections between chronic low back pain and movement 04/03/25 — UCSF/UC Berkeley study aims to make progress toward individualized treatments
Ashmita Kumar’s startup aims to detect signs of stroke and save lives 03/31/25 — Using AI and an iPhone, Berkeley M.E.T. student seeks to improve stroke health care
‘RISC architecture is gonna change everything’ 03/31/25 — Wired: David Patterson, CS professor emeritus and inventor of RISC, explains how words from the 1995 movie Hackers may hold true today
Brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis restores naturalistic speech 03/31/25 — AI-based model streams intelligible speech from the brain in real time
Berkeley engineers create world’s smallest wireless flying robot 03/28/25 — The bumblebee-inspired robot, less than a centimeter in diameter, can hover, change directions and even hit small targets.
Phillip Messersmith named fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science 03/27/25 — BioE professor honored for 'distinguished contributions' in wet biological adhesion and biologically inspired materials
Dan Garcia receives Distinguished Teaching Award 03/20/25 — EECS teaching professor recognized with campus's highest honor for teaching excellence
No robot can match a squirrel’s ability to leap from limb to limb — until now 03/19/25 — UC Berkeley engineers and biologists design a robot that can stick a landing on a branch
Scientists discover new heavy-metal molecule ‘Berkelocene’ 03/12/25 — Berkeley Lab: Breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements
Berkeley alum wants to ‘make the planet smarter’ 03/10/25 — Aravind Srinivas, co-founder of Perplexity, seeks to create a better AI chatbot
A new way to engineer composite materials 03/06/25 — Berkeley Lab: Innovative polymer design combines strength with reversibility
When student athletes are also engineers 03/05/25 — ASME: Berkeley mechanical engineering students are excelling on and off the field, court and track
Breakthrough method enables rapid discovery of new useful proteins 02/28/25 — IGI: UC Berkeley engineers help develop computational approach to quickly search massive datasets and prioritize proteins to study
New UC Berkeley center to address American competitiveness in advanced technology 02/24/25 — The academic center will engage experts in technology, economics and policy from across academia, industry and non-profit organizations
New Engineering Center to be named after UC Berkeley alumni Michael and Janelle Grimes 02/19/25 — The honor recognizes benefactors who have made outstanding contributions to the campus and its students
New AI breakthrough can model and design genetic code across all domains of life 02/19/25 — Evo 2, the largest AI model in biology to date, can accurately predict the effects of all types of genetic mutations