Shielding ice sheets
05/01/17 — Alumna Leslie Field founded Ice911, a nonprofit organization that uses salt-sized hollow glass spheres sprinkled on vulnerable ice to boost reflectivity and slow the melting process.
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Four alumni named to Forbes’ 30-Under-30 list
05/01/17 — Alums Ankur Aggarwal, Timothy Downing, Thibault Duchemin and Tim Wang were recognized for their contributions to science, healthcare and consumer technology.
NAE Class of 2017
05/01/17 — Eight Berkeley Engineering professors, alumni and board members have joined the National Academy of Engineering.
Alumni notes
05/01/17 — News and photos of Berkeley Engineering alumni from decades past.
Assembly instructions
05/01/17 — At Berkeley, 536 students have launched 468 startup companies since 2010 - the most of any public university. How does Berkeley do it? Oski demonstrates.
Small wonder
05/01/17 — Researchers have created the world's smallest transistor, a development that could advance the performance and efficiency of electronics.
The rule-breaker
05/01/17 — Professor of materials science and engineering Junqiao Wu has identified an outlier in the materials world: Vanadium dioxide can conduct electricity without conducting heat.
Safer transfusions
05/01/17 — Adam Arkin and team have used control theory to develop a simple diagnostic model that could personalize the treatment of patients suffering from traumatic coagulopathy.
Reading minds
05/01/17 — The BioSENSE Lab has created a “pass-thought” reader to authenticate wearers by reading their brainwaves.
High jump
05/01/17 — Inspired by the galago's unique ability to store energy in its tendons to leap to great heights, researchers have designed a small robot that can spring off walls and perform multiple vertical jumps.
Q+A on resilient communities
05/01/17 — Nuclear engineering professor Kai Vetter has founded an organization called the Institute for Resilient Communities, designed to help authorities communicate scientific information following disasters.
Exercising with Cal Fitness
05/01/17 — Doctoral students Mo Zhou and Yonatan Mintz designed an app called Cal Fitness to tailor algorithms to meet a user's unique needs.
Boosting robotics in manufacturing
05/01/17 — The Department of Defense announced a $253 million Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Innovation hub that partners with Berkeley Engineering.
Crowdfunding disperses capital
05/01/17 — Researchers show how crowdfunding has expanded startup financing beyond the entrepreneurial zones of Silicon Valley and Boston.
Carol Christ named chancellor
05/01/17 — With a unanimous vote by the regents in March, Carol Christ is now the 11th chancellor of UC Berkeley.
Lab to table
05/01/17 — At the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, students are experimenting with plant-based, more eco-friendly alternatives to meat.
Dean’s word: Inventing a better future
05/01/17 — The college is preparing to launch a new initiative, one with an audacious goal: to invent a better, more promising future for generations to come.
Smart moves: California’s next-gen infrastructure
05/01/17 — Next-generation technologies are disrupting traditional ideas of infrastructure, which will soon be laced with sensor networks, machine learning and artificial intelligence to optimize efficiency, resiliency and sustainability.
Berkeley implements new 2-degree program between engineering and business
04/28/17 Daily Californian — UC Berkeley's College of Engineering and Haas School of Business are offering a highly selective two-degree program - the Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology (MET) program - that will begin in fall 2017.
Plant-based seafood lab report
04/27/17 SCET — Moving on from its plant-based meat course last semester, the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology is now tackling the challenge of creating plant-based seafood alternatives to combat the environmental problems caused by overfishing.