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Fall 2020 magazine

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Tiny wireless oxygen monitor, shown on a finger

Tiny wireless implant detects oxygen deep within the body

04/14/21 — Ultrasound-powered device offers minimally invasive way to monitor organs or tissue
Pixar Director fo Engineering Hayley Iben

Hayley Iben: Science and math meet artistic expression

04/13/21 — Pixar director of engineering and BE alumna Hayley Iben has won a Scientific and Technical Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Ali Ghodsi

How Databricks bet big on the cloud

04/09/21 Forbes — A conversation with co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi, whose Berkeley-born data analytics company is now valued at $28 billion.
Computer rendering of CRISPR SNP Chip device

CRISPR-Chip advance streamlines genetic testing for medical diagnostics and research

04/05/21 — New study demonstrates platform's ability to detect single-point mutation without DNA amplification
Art installation in lobby of Hearst Memorial Mining Building

Berkeley Engineering ranked among top three for graduate programs

03/30/21 — Latest U.S. News & World Report national rankings place Berkeley in top three engineering graduate schools
stock photo of DNA nucleotides

TotalVI: A transformative algorithm

03/25/21 — UC Berkeley researchers have invented a computer algorithm that uses deep learning to integrate gene and protein data about single cells
Periodic Table symbols for berkelium and californium

Do you know the way to Berkelium, Californium?

03/24/21 Berkeley Lab — Heavy elements and a really powerful microscope help scientists map uncharted paths toward new materials and cancer therapies
EDGE in Tech Initiative

EDGE in Tech: New name showcases inclusive mission

03/15/21 — The Women in Tech Initiative at the University of California is now the Expanding Diversity and Gender Equity in Tech Initiative (EDGE in Tech)™
Illustration of single photons approaching metamaterial beam splitter

Berkeley engineers demonstrate unprecedented control of light with a new quantum device

03/15/21 — The at-will control over the behavior of single photons is key to developing optical quantum gates.
Overhead view of traffic intersection

Using AI to eliminate traffic jams

03/13/21 Fortune — ITS Director Alex Bayen explains how autonomous vehicles can help traffic flow more smoothly.
maps showing declining radiation dose rates in the Fukushima evacuation zone over time

10 years after Fukushima, Berkeley monitoring still in use

03/11/21 Berkeley Lab — Response to earthquake, nuclear plant disaster led Kai Vetter and colleagues to new programs and technologies
Schematic of three distinct lasers circling above flat optical antenna

Light unbound: Data limits could vanish with new optical antennas

02/25/21 — Berkeley engineers demonstrate new method of harnessing properties of lightwaves, enabling dramatic increase in the amount of data carried
NSSC Executive Director Bethany Goldblum and NSSC Fellow Adriana Sweet writing on a glass board.

Berkeley-led consortium awarded $25M to advance nuclear security

02/16/21 — This is the consortium's third five-year, $25 million grant, allowing it to continue its mission of educating nuclear scientists and advancing nuclear technologies.
Head shot of Ikhlaq Sidhu, SCET faculty director

Ikhlaq Sidhu marks 15 years at SCET

02/16/21 — The faculty director and chief scientist created a new model for the academic innovation center that embraces innovation in both academia and industry.
Head shot of Alessandro Chiesa

Alessandro Chiesa among five UC Berkeley faculty named Sloan Research Fellows

02/16/21 — The two-year fellowships are one of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to early career researchers
Leslie Robertson

Leslie Robertson, who engineered World Trade Center, dies at 92

02/16/21 New York Times — Berkeley civil engineering alum (B.S.'52) designed structural systems of several notable skyscrapers around the world
Pete Sonsini

Championing Berkeley-bred success

02/16/21 Calbears.com — Investor Pete Sonsini focuses on companies created at Cal, particularly data engineering startups
Shafi Goldwasser-portrait photo

Cryptography pioneer Shafi Goldwasser receives the Women in Science Award

02/11/21 Simons Institute — The L’Oréal-UNESCO honor for Goldwasser, director of the Simons Institute, comes on the International Day for Women & Girls in Science
UC Berkeley engineer Karl van Bibber in his Etcheverry Hall lab

Researchers harness quantum weirdness to speed search for dark matter

02/10/21 — Engineers build the most sensitive detector yet for spotting subatomic particles called axions
Head shot of David Patterson

David Patterson receives prestigious Frontiers in Knowledge award

02/10/21 BBVA Foundation — The UC Berkeley Turing laureate shares the prize, which includes 400,000 euros, with Stanford's John Hennessy for turning computer architecture into a science and designing the processors that power today’s devices.
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