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Paige Balcom, Tomás Vega and Corten Singer, from left, Berkeley alums featured in the award-winning documentary “Pathways to Invention.”

UC Berkeley innovators featured in ‘Pathways to Invention’ film

04/26/24 — Special to debut in May on PBS stations and streaming apps

EECS professor Hany Farid and I School Ph.D. students featured on PBS Nova

04/17/24 — School of Information: The episode, “A.I. Revolution,” covers the dangers of deepfakes — and how easily they can be created

Tsu-Jae King Liu, dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering, and Carol Christ, UC Berkeley chancellor, center from left, join a group photo with attendees at the WHIAANHPI (White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders) Leadership Development Summit at UC Berkeley’s Pauley Ballroom in Berkeley, Calif. on Tuesday, April 2, 2024.

Summit advances Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in higher education

04/04/24 — UC Berkeley hosted the nation’s first AA & NHPI Higher Education Leadership Development Summit, sponsored by the White House

Jennifer Doudna speaks on stage while standing behind a podium and laptop.

Jennifer Doudna: Delivering the future of CRISPR-based genome editing

02/08/24 — Nobel laureate details new applications at Kuh Distinguished Lecture

Photo of Robert Brodersen, co-founder of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center and EECS professor emeritus.

Robert Brodersen, co-founder of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center, has died

02/06/24 — EECS professor emeritus and leader in RF and digital wireless communication design, Brodersen passed away Feb. 1

Photo of Alexandre M. Bayen, Liao-Cho Innovation Endowed Chair and professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences and of civil and environmental engineering, associate provost for the Berkeley Space Center, and director of CITRIS.

Alexandre Bayen named CITRIS director

12/19/23 — CITRIS: Bayen will provide strategic direction to advance a research, entrepreneurship and outreach agenda that aligns with CITRIS’s mission

‘Boys in the Boat’ movie — and unique campus class — spark pride in Cal’s rowing history

12/05/23 — Mechanical engineering professor Oliver O’Reilly’s seminar is a "Tour de Cal Rowing"

New & noteworthy

11/06/23 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

Farewell

11/06/23 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

With flexibility comes possibility

11/06/23 — Funding for faculty fellowships will ignite the most important discoveries of the future.

Diversity in academic hiring, a success story

10/23/23 — CZ Biohub SF: Co-founded by BioE professor Aaron Streets, NextGen initiative diversifies faculty hiring in biological, biomedical sciences at universities

Silicon wafer (left), all-silicon photonic crystal cavity (center), containing a single atomic emissive center (right)

New all-silicon quantum light source developed by Berkeley researchers

06/07/23 — Technology could reliably feed quantum networks, untangle possibilities like quantum cryptography

New & noteworthy

05/17/23 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

Farewell

05/17/23 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

Student with drone at TerraSwarm annual meeting

With flexibility comes possibility

05/17/23 — Funding for faculty fellowships will ignite the most important discoveries of the future.

Illustration of padlock and rows of binary code

UC Berkeley joins NSF-backed AI institute for cybersecurity

05/08/23 — Five faculty members to develop 'foundational technologies in learning and reasoning'

Image of Jitendra Malik, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, presenting on the sensorimotor road to artificial intelligence at the 110th annual Martin Meyerson Faculty Research Lectures.

Jitendra Malik presents on the sensorimotor road to artificial intelligence

03/24/23 — Berkeley Talks transcript: The Arthur J. Chick Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences examines the evolution of artificial intelligence, part of the Martin Meyerson Faculty Research Lectures

Aaron Streets aims to build a pipeline to diversify STEM faculty

02/08/23 — Berkeley bioengineering professor shares his thoughts on ways the Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium can help increase the diversity and quality of applicant pools for faculty roles

Photo from 1992 of David Hodges, engineering dean, speaking at a Sproul Asoociation Luncheon

David Hodges, former dean of engineering and pioneer in integrated circuit design, dies at 85

11/29/22 — His work contributed to the rapid growth of the tech industry