After decades searching for ET, UC Berkeley scientists home in on 100 signals
01/12/26 — UC Berkeley’s SETI@home, one of the most popular crowd-sourced research projects ever, originally yielded 12 billion signals of interest
Researchers uncover new rules for designing protein-like polymers
01/01/26 — Findings could lead to eco-friendly plastics and other materials
Berkeley Engineering’s 2025 in review
12/18/25 — Nine standout stories from the year
Two UC Berkeley professors elected to the National Academy of Inventors
12/11/25 — Ana Claudia Arias and Tahir Ghani named as 2025 fellows
UC Berkeley study shows how patenting boosts pure research
12/01/25 — UC Berkeley Haas: Researchers who both publish papers and file patents were found to produce work that is more novel and more influential
Material intelligence
11/24/25 — Science meets shapeshifting at the Morphing Matter Lab
Nature provides the answers
11/19/25 — Phillip Messersmith harnesses the natural world to engineer medical innovations
SOAR labs have liftoff at Richmond Field Station
11/17/25 — Launch of Student Organization Applied Research facility begins new era of student innovation
Karl van Bibber and Shafi Goldwasser elected to the American Academy of Sciences and Letters
11/14/25 — ‘Distinguished academics’ honored for their outstanding scholarship
Researchers pioneer greener way to extract rare earth elements
11/12/25 — Sustainable biomining approach uses genetically engineered viruses
Winter magazine is here
11/10/25 — Latest Berkeley Engineer features stories on nature-inspired medical advances, as well as shapeshifting materials that respond to interaction with the environment.
Nature provides the answers
11/10/25 — Phillip Messersmith harnesses the natural world to engineer medical innovations
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Game changer
11/10/25 — Arcade legend Eugene Jarvis looks back on his time as a Berkeley undergrad
Farewell
11/10/25 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students
New & noteworthy
11/10/25 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students
Wildfire defense that works
11/10/25 — Home hardening and defensible space strategies can double the number of structures that survive a blaze
Q+A on neurotechnologies
11/10/25 — Rikky Muller is developing end-to-end devices that are smarter, safer and smaller than ever
A new hue
11/10/25 — Berkeley scientists have developed a technique to manipulate the eye into seeing a brand-new color
From drop to diagnosis
11/10/25 — Researchers have created a rapid, at-home diagnostic test that is 100 times more sensitive to viruses