People’s choice
11/01/13 — In the age of the Internet and social media, old investing models may be giving way to newer models, such as crowdfunding.
News
Q+A with Ali Javey
11/01/13 — EECS professor Ali Javey has been widely covered in the science press for breakthroughs ranging from a new, low-cost method for manufacturing high efficiency photovoltaics to improved ‘e-skin'
Why are rubies red?
11/01/13 — Alum and materials science and engineering professor Ron Gronsky explains what makes rubies red.
Concrete knowledge
11/01/13 — Berkeley scientists have learned the secret of exactly what makes Roman seawater concrete so durable.
Under observation
11/01/13 — Scientists have discovered a better way to study integrins experimentally, by creating a computer model.
Say what?
11/01/13 — A Berkeley research team has created a computer program that can rebuild protolanguages - the ancestral languages from which modern languages evolved - in days or even hours.
Bend it like Wu
11/01/13 — Materials science and engineering professor Junqiao Wu and Berkeley Lab colleagues have created a microscale actuator that's smaller than the width of a human hair and can bend like a finger.
Check your head
11/01/13 — Researchers have developed affordable technology to help diagnose brain injuries in real time.
Artificial forest
11/01/13 — Berkeley researchers have developed an “artificial forest,” a model that directly converts sunlight into chemical fuels in a process that mimics photosynthesis.
Diving to the edge of darkness
11/01/13 — At Hawkes Ocean Technologies, alum Adam Wright builds manned submarines capable of underwater flight.
Creek life
11/01/13 — Grad student Aysha Massell works to restore the storied Strawberry Creek on campus.
Building a super bowl
11/01/13 — An insider's look into the construction of the new Levi's Stadium, the NFL's first LEED Gold stadium and among the fastest ever constructed.
Alumni notes
11/01/13 — News and photos of Berkeley Engineering alumni from decades past.
Farewell
11/01/13 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering faculty and alumni
Cracked encryption? Back doors? Cellphone snooping may be easier than ever
10/31/13 NBC News — Computer science professor Vern Paxson weighs in on the National Security Agency's interception of wireless communications, noting that even modern encryption may have flaws if done incorrectly. He also worries about allegations that the NSA is vacuuming up information at a heretofore unimagined scale.
Researchers developing brain-controlled prosthetic devices
10/31/13 USA Today — Scientists at the UCSF-UC Berkeley Center for Neural Engineering and Prostheses are among many teams nationwide working on brain-machine interfaces, promising bionic limbs controlled by users' thoughts. "We're still very far from decoding thoughts," says Berkeley bioengineer Amy Orsborn of the CNEP team. "These devices are not for mind control. They're for providing new means of control for sensory processes."
Berkeley crowdfunding symposium produces international research agreement
10/23/13 — The first international agreement to share research data on crowdfunding - an increasingly popular financing model that allows entrepreneurs to raise capital using social media - was framed during an Oct. 17–18 symposium organized by the College of Engineering's Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership.
Luck, smarts lead from Uganda to UC Berkeley
10/22/13 San Francisco Chronicle — The amazing journey of Christopher Ategeka, who went from teenage orphan and human scarecrow in Uganda to mechanical engineer at UC Berkeley (two degrees down, one more in the works), winning honors and prizes, founding a nonprofit and a biotech company, even giving a TED talk.
Campus information security office works to stay ahead of hackers
10/18/13 Daily Californian — UC Berkeley's Information Security and Policy Office, aided by EECS graduate students and professors, is undergoing a three-year overhaul to strengthen the campus's online security.
A carbon map to development
10/15/13 Daily Californian — In a Daily Cal op-ed, Dean Shankar Sastry calls for an international roadmap for economic growth, job creation and poverty alleviation that also contributes to controlling greenhouse gas emissions.