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Photo of a brightly colored peacock

UC Berkeley scientists trick the eye into seeing new color ‘olo’

04/22/25 — Innovative technique provides new insight into the nature of color vision and vision loss
Civil and environmental engineering professor Joshua Apte and postdoc Sam Cliff take air quality measurements aboard diesel trains, which are in the process of being replaced by new electric trains at San Francisco Caltrain Station.

Electric trains quieter, more reliable — and healthier, study finds

04/16/25 — Electrifying SF Bay Area’s Caltrain line was shown to reduce riders’ exposure to carcinogenic black carbon by an average of 89%
Shot of more than 20 people in a room wearing clean suits. The people are listening to a person talking and pointing to the right.

UC Berkeley’s Marvell NanoLab gets high-tech boost with Lam Research gift

04/16/25 — Sophisticated etching system enables atomic-scale precision for next-generation chips
Runner tying her shoe next to a bottle of water.

Don’t sweat it!

04/15/25 — Wearable sweat sensor can track your hydration status during physical and mental activities
UC Berkeley’s McLaughlin Hall in Berkeley, Calif. on Thursday, July 30, 2020. (Photo by Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering)

Berkeley Engineering ranked No. 3 grad program in the nation by U.S. News

04/07/25 — Berkeley remains top public engineering program
A male patient arrives at the therapy clinic complaining of low back pain. The therapist examines the patient

Researchers explore connections between chronic low back pain and movement

04/03/25 — UCSF/UC Berkeley study aims to make progress toward individualized treatments
Ashmita Kumar, UC Berkeley M.E.T. student.

Ashmita Kumar’s startup aims to detect signs of stroke and save lives

03/31/25 — Using AI and an iPhone, Berkeley EECS student seeks to improve stroke health care
Yunsup Lee holding RISC V prototype chip.

‘RISC architecture is gonna change everything’

03/31/25 — Wired: David Patterson, CS professor emeritus and inventor of RISC, explains how words from the 1995 movie Hackers may hold true today
Closeup of gloved hands connecting a brain-computer-interface to the back of research participant

Brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis restores naturalistic speech

03/31/25 — AI-based model streams intelligible speech from the brain in real time
Macro shot of white insect-sized drone held in fingertips of a UC Berkeley researcher.

Berkeley engineers create world’s smallest wireless flying robot

03/28/25 — The bumblebee-inspired robot, less than a centimeter in diameter, can hover, change directions and even hit small targets.
Phillip Messersmith, professor of bioengineering at UC Berkeley.

Phillip Messersmith named fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science

03/27/25 — BioE professor honored for 'distinguished contributions' in wet biological adhesion and biologically inspired materials
Dan Garcia, EECS teaching professor.

Dan Garcia receives Distinguished Teaching Award

03/20/25 — EECS teaching professor recognized with campus's highest honor for teaching excellence
Collage mage of squirrels jumping, landing and balancing on a narrow branch, and a robot in midair attempting the same feat.

No robot can match a squirrel’s ability to leap from limb to limb — until now

03/19/25 — UC Berkeley engineers and biologists design a robot that can stick a landing on a branch
The purple/blue solution in this vial contains crystals of the berkelocene “sandwich.” (Credit: Alyssa Gaiser/Berkeley Lab)

Scientists discover new heavy-metal molecule ‘Berkelocene’

03/12/25 — Berkeley Lab: Breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements
Aravind Srinivas (Ph.D.’21 CS), co-founder and CEO of Perplexity.

Berkeley alum wants to ‘make the planet smarter’

03/10/25 — Aravind Srinivas, co-founder of Perplexity, seeks to create a better AI chatbot
Silica nanoparticles affixed with a distribution of polystyrene chains (purple) self-assemble into hexagonal lattices. Depending on how the chains are organized on the particle surface, they tangle together (purple) or unravel (blue) when compressed.

A new way to engineer composite materials

03/06/25 — Berkeley Lab: Innovative polymer design combines strength with reversibility
Mechanical engineering student Will Siemens competing on pole vault.

When student athletes are also engineers

03/05/25 — ASME: Berkeley mechanical engineering students are excelling on and off the field, court and track
Illustration of proteins.

Breakthrough method enables rapid discovery of new useful proteins

02/28/25 — IGI: UC Berkeley engineers help develop computational approach to quickly search massive datasets and prioritize proteins to study
Mark Liu, former executive chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), speaking at a podium. To ensure American technology competitiveness in the long term, Liu is establishing the Technology Competitiveness and Industrial Policy Center at the University of California, Berkeley.

New UC Berkeley center to address American competitiveness in advanced technology

02/24/25 — The academic center will engage experts in technology, economics and policy from across academia, industry and non-profit organizations
Photo of Michael and Janelle Grimes wearing hard hats and shoveling dirt at the Engineering Center groundbreaking ceremony.

New Engineering Center to be named after UC Berkeley alumni Michael and Janelle Grimes

02/19/25 — The honor recognizes benefactors who have made outstanding contributions to the campus and its students
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