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Student driving electric race car

All charged up

05/31/24 — With your gift to Berkeley Engineering, you can fuel innovation and change.
Bright object with fiery trail approaching curve of Earth in image from space

Q+A on solar sails

05/31/24 — The BLISS project aims to create a fleet of miniaturized, autonomous spacecraft for exploring asteroids and comets.

New & noteworthy

05/31/24 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
Nobel-prize winning professor Jennifer Doudna meets with Society of Women Engineers students before the Kuh Distinguished Lecture

Building on strength

05/31/24 — The Light the Way campaign raised $900 million for Berkeley Engineering in support of research programs, faculty and students.
A collage of photos shows scientists working in different types of lab environments.

Berkeley’s ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship combats climate change

05/30/24 — UC Berkeley faculty are fast-tracking the development of new and creative climate solutions
The bioinspired soft actuator can change shape under different external magnetic fields. Recorded (top row) and computed (bottom row) deformation of the actuator for contraction during four representative stages.

Researchers design soft actuators that mimic ‘bone-in-flesh’ structure of human limbs

05/28/24 — Devices exhibit ultrafast performance, extreme impact resistance — and can be easily fabricated in under an hour
Five engineers among 2024 Spark Award winners: (top row, from left) Adam Yala, Jennifer Listgarten, Liana Lareau; (bottom row, from left) Zakaria Al Balushi, Robert Pilawa-Podgurski.

Five engineering professors among 2024 Spark Award winners

05/22/24 — Bakar Fellows Program: Recipients embody the spirit of innovation and collaboration that defines UC Berkeley’s entrepreneurial ecosystem
Bioengineering bachelor

Berkeley Engineering celebrates class of 2024

05/20/24 — Newest grads embrace diversity of thought, perspective
A rendering of a five-story building with a glass façade.

Bakar ClimatEnginuity Hub: Berkeley’s new home for climate innovation

05/16/24 — New incubator on the west side of campus will provide resources and support to entrepreneurs in renewable energy and clean technology
Lilly Etzenbach, B.S.’24 ME.

Berkeley engineer Lilly Etzenbach among 2024 University Medal finalists

05/07/24 — Forced into COVID-era isolation, this year’s finalists embraced resilience, compassion
Futuristic batteries on top of a computer chip emitting powerful lightning bolts, neon blue colors, black background.

Researchers achieve giant energy storage, power density on a microchip

05/06/24 — New generation of electrostatic capacitors could change the energy storage paradigm for microelectronics
Kathy Yelick, vice chancellor for research and the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley.

Q&A: EECS professor Kathy Yelick on post-exascale computing challenges

05/02/24 — HPCwire: UC Berkeley’s vice chancellor for research discusses evolving computing demands as we approach the zettascale era
Materials scientist Ramamoorthy Ramesh, a UC Berkeley professor now on leave at Rice University.

Ramamoorthy Ramesh elected to National Academy of Sciences

05/02/24 — Materials scientist recognized for his distinguished and continuing contributions in original research
Teresa Head-Gordon, Chancellor

Teresa Head-Gordon named recipient of the Humboldt Research Award

05/01/24 — College of Chemistry: Berkeley professor honored for groundbreaking discoveries and insights in chemistry, bioengineering, and chemical and biomolecular engineering
3D models used for generating synthetic chemical and ADF projections.

First high-res 3D nanoscale chemical imaging achieved with multimodal tomography

04/30/24 — University of Michigan: New approach could advance nanomaterials for electronics, clean energy, biomedicine and more
Paige Balcom, Tomás Vega and Corten Singer, from left, Berkeley alums featured in the award-winning documentary “Pathways to Invention.”

UC Berkeley innovators featured in ‘Pathways to Invention’ film

04/26/24 — Special to debut in May on PBS stations and streaming apps
Photo of EECS professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

04/24/24 — Berkeley EECS professor recognized for excellence in developing and improving a variety of modern electronics systems
A map of the crystal structure of the alloy made with electron backscatter diffraction in a scanning electron microscope. Each color represents a section of the crystal where the repeating structure changes its 3D orientation.

This alloy is kinky

04/22/24 — Berkeley Lab: Remarkable metal alloy won’t crack at extreme temperatures due to kinking, or bending, of crystals at the atomic level
Traditionally, fluorescence microscopes (blue images) are used to image tumors. A new image sensor (purple images) could do the same, less invasively.

Tiny sensor aims to monitor tumors in real time

04/19/24 — IEEE Spectrum: Novel device could potentially provide a better alternative to biopsies
Ravi Prasher, adjunct professor of mechanical engineering and an affiliate faculty scientist at Berkeley Lab (left); Sayeef Salahuddin, the TSMC Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and a faculty senior scientist at Berkeley Lab (right).

Ravi Prasher and Sayeef Salahuddin elected lifetime fellows of AAAS

04/18/24 — Honorees are among six UC Berkeley researchers recognized for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements
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