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Will STEM education be the child left behind?

11/02/15 NPR — Berkeley Engineers And Mentors (BEAM), a student volunteer group that teaches an after-school STEM program at a Berkeley elementary school, was featured in a Morning Edition report on the budget a policy hurdles facing STEM education.
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UC Berkeley to co-lead regional big data ‘brain trust’

11/02/15 — UC Berkeley is teaming up with UC San Diego and the University of Washington to lead one of four regional innovation hubs established by the National Science Foundation to facilitate multi-sector collaborations that can accelerate advances in data science.

Sophie’s super hand

11/01/15 — Born with symbrachydactyly, eight-year-old Sophie doesn't have fully developed finger bones in her left hand, but with the help of a CITRIS Invention Lab team, she is the new user of a 3-D printed super hand.
Bioengineering professor Kevin Healy

Microscopic models of the human heart

11/01/15 — Bioengineering professor Kevin Healy and his team have developed a “heart on a chip” and “heart on a dot,” potentially opening more accurate and efficient drug screening methods.
Steven Glaser in his lab.

Heavy lifting

11/01/15 — With an eclectic array of equipment, the Glaser Lab is home to research projects ranging from seismic safety and geothermal energy monitoring to sensor grids to measure Sierra snowpack.
Cellscope process diagram to detect parasitic worms

CellScope Loa

11/01/15 — This fall, the CellScope team has adapted their device to analyze images of parasitic Loa loa worms to determine the safety of a treatment for river blindness (onchocerciasis).

Dean’s word: Disrupting health care by design

11/01/15 — An expanding network, including a new partnership with UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, allows the joint efforts of alumni, faculty and students to engineer solutions and change the scope of improving health care.
Building the shake table

Still shakin’ it

11/01/15 — The venerable Shake Table of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER), the largest six-degrees-of-freedom table in the country, brings its illustrious past forward to continually improve seismic safety.
Stuart Russell quote: "Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has reached a point where the deployment of such systems is — practically, if not legally — feasible within years, not decades, and the stakes are high: autonomous weapons have been described as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms."

Open letter on AI

11/01/15 — Computer science professor, Stuart Russell, has written a series of open letters calling on the global community of scientists, engineers, and technologists, to develop guidelines surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) research.
Paul Jacobs at Jacobs Hall opening

Opening Jacobs Hall

11/01/15 — In August, the campus community celebrated the opening of Jacobs Hall, headquarters of the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, with high hopes for the impact to emanate from the facility's studios and maker spaces.
JustMilk device to deliver nutrients with breast milk

Fortifying breast milk

11/01/15 — Mechanical engineering professor Alice Agogino has teamed up on a project that is providing safe nutrient delivery to newborns.

Transit trends

11/01/15 — While not known for fast responses to the market, automakers are now making modifications to suit the sharing economy, which is growing by 35 percent a year. If only they could do something about poor driving practices, most notably, the jerk merge.
BRETT with EECS professor Pieter Abbeel.

Q+A with BRETT

11/01/15 — “How can we get a robot to think about situations it's never seen before?” asks EECS professor Pieter Abbeel. In this Q&A, BRETT, resident robot in Abbeel's lab, describes its experiences with deep learning.
Aeriel view of glaciers in Southwest British Columbia.

Origin science

11/01/15 — Where did the first Americans come from? Recent findings suggest evidence that both supports and dispels some earlier ideas about the origin of the Americas.

GMOs on lockdown

11/01/15 — Using a strain of E. coli, Berkeley engineers may have found a way to lock and unlock a single gene with a single chemical molecule.

Light-speed genetics

11/01/15 — Traditional polymerase chain reaction genetics tests take hours and lots of energy to perform. Researchers have now cut the waiting time and cost of the photonic PCR system without losing resolution.
Diagram of smart cap function

Print and plug

11/01/15 — 3-D printers are expanding the possibilities for innovation with personal devices. To demonstrate the potential, mechanical engineering professor Liwei Lin printed a spoil-detecting milk carton cap.
Nuclear engineering students with wreck-hunting submersible

Radioactive wrecks?

11/01/15 — Sixty-four years after the U.S.S Independence was sent to the bottom of the Pacific, the wreckage was found and tested for radiation contamination by a Berkeley team.

Toy tinkerer makes good

11/01/15 — Prolific inventor and designer Jack McCauley (EECS '86) has made a $2.5-million gift to establish the McCauley Family Fund in Design Innovation to support programs within the Jacobs Institute.

Spider-inspired silken threads

11/01/15 — Where some people see mere cobwebs, David Breslauer sees nature's most robust fiber. Now the bioengineering Ph.D.'s company, Bolt Threads, has learned how to mimic spider silk in the lab - without spiders.