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
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Championing Berkeley-bred success
02/16/21 Calbears.com — Investor Pete Sonsini focuses on companies created at Cal, particularly data engineering startups
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
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
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.
Need a study group? There’s an app for that
02/09/21 Berkeley Haas — Engineering and M.E.T. undergrads build feature for Berkeley Mobile app to simplify finding virtual study groups
Professors receive Berkeley Faculty Service Award
02/09/21 — Mechanical engineering's Alice Agogino, Oliver O'Reilly honored by Academic Senate for "outstanding and dedicated service to the campus"
First-ever measurements of einsteinium
02/03/21 LBL — Experiments by Berkeley Lab scientists, co-led by nuclear engineering assistant professor Rebecca Abergel, reveal some unexpected properties of this highly radioactive element
Teaching young Ugandan women to code
02/03/21 — Gloria Tumushabe, a MasterCard Foundation Scholar in EECS, wanted to be more than an engineer; COVID gave her the chance
Using microfluidics to peer deeper into the structure of our genome
01/21/21 — UC Berkeley researchers develop a novel technique, based on a microfluidic platform, for unraveling and imaging lengthy strands of DNA
Rachel Slaybaugh to lead Cyclotron Road
01/07/21 — Nuclear engineering associate professor takes the helm at Berkeley Lab’s division for entrepreneurial scientists
Talk to the hand? New device can recognize gestures
12/21/20 — The armband, which combines wearable biosensors with artificial intelligence, could be used to control prosthetics or interact with electronic devices
Upcycling: Turning plastic bags into adhesives
12/17/20 — New catalytic process can stick polyethylene to metal or other materials, potentially boosting the economics of recycling
Ambidextrous wins ‘Good Robot’ award for overall excellence
12/15/20 Silicon Valley Robotics — Berkeley-founded startup honored for its versatile e-commerce robots with an AI-enhanced operating system
Scientists recruit new atomic heavyweights in targeted fight against cancer
12/14/20 Berkeley Lab — Methods from team led by nuclear engineering assistant professor Rebecca Abergel could lead to systems for both diagnosing and treating cancer in real time
UC Berkeley-led team receives $8.4M for AI-based approaches to cyber-physical systems
12/10/20 — Project proposes a novel approach that blends AI and machine learning with guidance from human and computational oracles
Environment draws students to Nobel winners’ labs
12/10/20 — Bioengineering grad student Connor Tsuchida and others reflect on the joys of working in new Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna's CRISPR lab
Anti-COVID mask breaks the mold
12/10/20 LBL — Scientists from Berkeley Engineering and Berkeley Lab have designed a rechargeable N95 mask with a custom fit
The computer scientist who shrinks big data
12/08/20 Quanta Magazine — EECS professor Jelani Nelson designs clever algorithms to remember slivers of massive data sets; he also teaches kids in Ethiopia how to code
CRISPR-based COVID-19 test uses smartphone cameras
12/04/20 — New diagnostic test, with accurate results in under 30 minutes, developed by scientists at Berkeley (including bioengineer Daniel Fletcher) and Gladstone Institutes