Expanding the pipeline
11/14/18 — The NextProf Nexus workshop prepares diverse graduate students for careers in higher education.
News
Fighting fake news
11/14/18 — Berkeley students have created SurfSafe, a machine learning tool that identifies when an online photo has been doctored.
A collision of talent
11/14/18 — A course at Berkeley teams STEM students with athletes to develop sports-related technology.
Q+A with Dean Tsu-Jae King Liu
11/14/18 — New Berkeley Engineering Dean Tsu-Jae King Liu elaborates on her priorities and long-term vision for the college.
Origami electronics
11/14/18 — Scientists have fabricated electronic switches and sensors directly onto paper, where folding it can switch circuits on and off.
From waste heat to energy
11/14/18 — Researchers have developed a thin-film device that converts waste heat to energy, using pyroelectric energy conversion.
Cleaning up contamination
11/14/18 — Researchers have learned how to keep proteins active outside of the cell, leading to technology that can soak up chemical pollution.
Better breast cancer screening
11/14/18 — Using microfluidic technology, researchers can distinguish cells that are central to breast cancer development.
Calorie burner
11/14/18 — Scientists found the specific biochemical pathway that activates brown fat and causes the body to burn more calories.
Fire & water
11/14/18 — Restoring natural fire regimes to California's mountains could be a win-win-win: more water, improved biodiversity and a reduced risk of catastrophic fires.
Microrobots fly, walk and jump into the future
11/14/18 — Researchers led by Kris Pister are overcoming significant technical hurdles to push the boundaries of robotic miniaturization.
New & noteworthy
11/14/18 — Class notes and other updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni and faculty.
Three named as top young innovators
11/14/18 — Alessandro Chiesa, Chelsea Finn and John Schulman were recognized on MIT Technology Review's list of “35 Innovators Under 35.”
New STEM podcast
11/14/18 — Bioengineering grad students launched the Double Shelix podcast to discuss the challenges women face in pursuing STEM careers.
Farewell
11/14/18 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering faculty and alumni
Shmuel Oren awarded Berkeley Citation
11/14/18 — Recently retired IEOR professor Shmuel Oren, now serving as a professor of the graduate school, has been awarded the Berkeley Citation, one of UC Berkeley's highest awards honoring individuals "whose achievements exceed the standards of excellence."
Skinlike sensor maps blood-oxygen levels anywhere in the body
11/07/18 — A new flexible sensor developed by engineers at UC Berkeley can map blood-oxygen levels over large areas of skin, tissue and organs, potentially giving doctors a new way to monitor healing wounds in real time.
Berkeley engineers selected to modernize the grid
11/02/18 — The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected eighteen teams, including two with Berkeley Engineering researchers, to participate in the Grid Optimization Competition. which aims to develop new management software for the nation's electricity grid.
Data science division to connect teaching and research across campus
11/01/18 — UC Berkeley is forming a new academic division, provisionally referred to as the Division of Data Science and Information, to facilitate interactions among researchers, students and faculty in a wide variety of disciplines.
Berkeley computer theorists show path to verifying quantum supremacy
10/30/18 — Berkeley computer theorists have shown that there is merit behind a method of verifying quantum supremacy, a term that describes a quantum computer's ability to solve a problem that is prohibitively difficult for any classical algorithm.