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Ashok Gadgil wins inaugural Zuckerberg Water Prize

04/05/22 — Award recognizes his outstanding vision and lasting global impact in water research

Civil and environmental engineering graduate students examine sediment extracted from a borehole being drilled near University House.

Campus drills 400-foot borehole to explore geothermal heating

03/30/22 — If successful, a geothermal heat pump system to help heat and cool buildings more efficiently could become part of UC Berkeley’s plan to decarbonize the campus

The bronze Maachi Bears guard the entrance to the College of Engineering

Berkeley’s graduate engineering programs ranked #3 nationwide

03/29/22 — Latest national rankings by U.S. News & World Report place all its engineering programs in top 5

Students check data on a laptop during field research on biodiversity

New center will apply data science to solving environmental challenges

03/23/22 — Open science and collaboration with communities is at the heart of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science and Environment

Researcher looking at brain scan images on computer monitors.

‘Off label’ use of imaging databases could lead to bias in AI algorithms, study finds

03/21/22 — Biased algorithms applied to clinical data may produce images in which pathological details are blurred or missed, researchers reveal.

Robots, AI and podcasting: a Q&A with Pieter Abbeel

03/18/22 — Professor Pieter Abbeel has launched “The Robot Brains Podcast,” featuring discussions with leading AI experts and entrepreneurs.

Chevron refinery in Richmond, California, seen from the adjacent residential Point Richmond neighborhood.

Study shows more air pollution in areas of historical redlining

03/09/22 — Public Health: Research led by Berkeley civil engineers finds racism from the 1930s is still influencing environmental inequality today

Tiny switches give solid-state LiDAR record resolution

03/09/22 — Work led by UC Berkeley researchers could lead to new generation of powerful, low-cost 3D sensors for autonomous cars, drones, robots, smartphones and more.

Richard Blum speaking at the dedication of the Blum Center for Developing Economies

Richard Blum, UC benefactor, passes away

03/01/22 — Statement from Blum Center leaders mourns death of Berkeley alumnus and champion of development engineering

Amy Herr named chief technology officer of CZ Biohub Network

02/28/22 — Berkeley bioengineering professor will help lead Chan Zuckerberg group's efforts to advance technologies to observe, measure, and analyze human biology in action

simulation of axion formation in the early universe

Search for axions gets new target, new tools

02/25/22 — Nuclear engineering professor Karl van Bibber's research with plasmonic haloscopes could bolster physicists' new calculations of the mass of axions, a prime dark matter candidate

Early-career scholars named Sloan Research Fellows

02/18/22 — Grace Gu of mechanical engineering and Avishay Tal of electrical engineering and computer sciences are among four UC Berkeley assistant professors receiving the prestigious award

Dean Liu testifies at House hearing on strengthening microelectronics workforce

02/16/22 — Tsu-Jae King Liu discusses role of universities in addressing labor shortage in the semiconductor industry

Slicing the way to wearable sensor prototypes

02/11/22 — A $200 vinyl cutter can replace a multistep clean room technique to churn out the prototypes researchers need to rapidly test new stretchable sensors.

Masayoshi Tomizuka named to National Academy of Engineering

02/09/22 — Mechanical engineering professor among 76 academy members at Berkeley Engineering

Steve Conolly, Niren Murthy and Kenichi Soga

Innovative faculty members awarded Bakar Prize

02/07/22 — Three Berkeley Engineering faculty — Steve Conolly of bioengineering and EECS, bioengineer Niren Murthy and mineral engineer Kenichi Soga of CEE — are among four winners of the campus's 2022 Bakar Prize for technological innovations that promise solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems