Disabled Students’ Program
08/30/14 — DSP promotes an inclusive environment for students with disabilities, equipping them with appropriate accommodations and services to achieve their individual academic goals.
News
Environmental faculty receive prestigious Obama-Singh Award
08/29/14 — Professors Kara Nelson, David Sedlak and Ashok Gadgil of civil and environmental engineering are among the Berkeley faculty selected for the prestigious Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative Award for 2014, which includes work on a sustainable water project in India.
ITS grad students receive Eisenhower fellowships
08/29/14 — Three Institute of Transportation Studies graduate students, Frank Proulx, Jesus Barajas and Lisa Rayle, have won coveted 2014 Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Fellowships for their research in transportation planning.
Ramesh named associate director at Berkeley lab
08/29/14 Berkeley Lab — Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Purnendu Chatterjee Endowed Chair in Energy Technologies and professor of materials science and engineering and physics, has been named to the new position of associate laboratory director for energy technologies at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Last-minute mergers endanger drivers, worsen traffic jams
08/28/14 San Francisco Chronicle — The "jerk merge," where drivers cut into a traffic lane at the last possible moment, is "probably the most disruptive to traffic" and should be a target of police action, says Michael Cassidy, professor of civil and environmental engineering.
New ‘biochips’ that mimic our bodies could speed development of drugs
08/27/14 Wired — Researchers in the labs of Berkeley bioengineers Kevin Healy and Luke Lee are collaborating on a project to recreate parts of the human body on chips. The research aims to find ways to get tissue to live and mimic how real organs function in order to eliminate years of animal and human testing of medical treatments.
Engineering sisters and their bargain bots
08/27/14 California magazine — Melissa and Lavanya (B.S.'15 ME) Jawaharlal created their affordable Pi-Bots and founded STEM Center USA to engage kids - especially girls - who otherwise might never discover their aptitude for science, technology, engineering and math.
Bioengineering research on Danish TV
08/26/14 Jyske Bank — The Danish television program “Tech and City” filmed an episode at UC Berkeley showcasing bioengineering professor Seung-Wuk Lee's virus-electric energy work, and the CellScope project from professor Dan Fletcher's lab, explained by PhD alum and lecturer Frankie Myers.
Out of many, one
08/25/14 The New Yorker — EECS professor, Alexei Efros built the AverageExplorer to study visual information. The software creates an average image after compiling thousands of similar Internet photos.
Young Berkeley engineers recognized as innovators, humanitarians
08/20/14 MIT Technology Review — An EECS post-doc and two Berkeley Engineering alumni are named to the 2014 MIT Technology Review “35 Innovators Under 35” list. All three are part of the humanitarian category. Post-doc Kurtis Heimerl, 30, developed the Village Base Station, which brings cellular telecommunications to remote places of the world. Heimerl is CEO of Endaga, a company founded […]
Capstone team takes 2nd in ASME Undergraduate Design Competition
08/14/14 — A team of students in the Fall 2013 Bioengineering Senior Capstone Design course have won Second Place in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Undergraduate Design Competition this summer.
New tool makes a single picture worth a thousand – and more – images
08/14/14 — New software developed by UC Berkeley computer scientists seeks to tame the growing sea of visual data by generating an "average" photo that can represent many thousands of related images.
Giving her all in the lab, on the field
08/14/14 — Dr. Christine Leon Swisher (Ph.D.'14 BioE) talks about juggling her passions for science and dance, simultaneously pursuing a PhD and dancing with the 49ers Gold Rush cheerleaders.
New look for college news
08/14/14 — After a year in development, Berkeley Engineering launched its reconceived website at the opening of the 2014–15 academic year
Scholars on scooters
08/14/14 — Students zip around campus on electric scooters while learning about energy, transportation and vehicle-to-grid systems in a new civil engineering class.
Antimalarial drug based on Berkeley technology shipped to Africa
08/13/14 Berkeley Lab — The road from lab bench to market can be long, but UC Berkeley's Jay Keasling has been patient. Thirteen years after he discovered how to make an antimalarial drug in microbes, the product - the world's first semisynthetic antimalarial drug - has been shipped from Italy to Africa to bolster the fight against this killer disease.
What cars did for today’s world, data may do for tomorrow’s
08/12/14 New York Times — Berkeley's AMP Lab, created two years ago for research into new kinds of large-scale computing, has become a key part of the world-changing ecosystem of digital hardware and software, spinning out companies like Databricks and Mesosphere that make megacomputing systems available and affordable.
Design innovation at Berkeley Engineering
08/11/14 — This slide show tells the story of the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation's first year.
Berkeley Engineering launches Girls in Engineering summer camp
08/08/14 — STEM fields come to life for East Bay middle schoolers at summer camp.
Bottling up sound waves
08/07/14 Berkeley Lab — Berkeley Lab researchers, led by Berkeley Engineering materials science professor Xiang Zhang, have developed a technique for generating self-bending acoustic bottle beams that hold promise for ultrasonic imaging and therapy, and for acoustic cloaking, levitation and particle manipulation.