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Berkeley Engineer magazine, Fall 2023

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Sandbox with toys and a microscope

Engineering sandbox

04/26/24 — Practice site for training and experimentation
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
Photo of EECS professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

04/24/24 — Berkeley EECS professor recognized for excellence in developing and improving a variety of modern electronics systems
A map of the crystal structure of the alloy made with electron backscatter diffraction in a scanning electron microscope. Each color represents a section of the crystal where the repeating structure changes its 3D orientation.

This alloy is kinky

04/22/24 — Berkeley Lab: Remarkable metal alloy won’t crack at extreme temperatures due to kinking, or bending, of crystals at the atomic level
Traditionally, fluorescence microscopes (blue images) are used to image tumors. A new image sensor (purple images) could do the same, less invasively.

Tiny sensor aims to monitor tumors in real time

04/19/24 — IEEE Spectrum: Novel device could potentially provide a better alternative to biopsies
Ravi Prasher, adjunct professor of mechanical engineering and an affiliate faculty scientist at Berkeley Lab (left); Sayeef Salahuddin, the TSMC Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and a faculty senior scientist at Berkeley Lab (right).

Ravi Prasher and Sayeef Salahuddin elected lifetime fellows of AAAS

04/18/24 — Honorees are among six UC Berkeley researchers recognized for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements
Hany Farid

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
Francisca Vasconcelos, a doctoral student in UC Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.

Francisca Vasconcelos chosen as Paul and Daisy Soros New American fellow

04/17/24 — CDSS: EECS doctoral student to receive up to $90,000 through merit-based program for immigrants, children of immigrants
A pink robot hand and a pink human hand reach for each other against a blue background.

How to keep AI from killing us all

04/09/24 — UC Berkeley researchers: Companies should not be allowed to create advanced AI systems until they can prove they are safe
Illustration of a robot arm, vials, a laptop and a beaker on a desk facing the window.

How scientists are accelerating chemistry discoveries with automation

04/08/24 — Berkeley Lab: New statistical-modeling workflow, developed by MSE professor Kristin Persson’s group, may help advance drug discovery and synthetic chemistry
Distributed fiber optic sensor installation on a new pipeline.

Researchers receive $3M grant to integrate advanced technologies for enhanced risk assessment

04/05/24 — Berkeley geotechnical engineer Kenichi Soga will lead project aimed at enhancing safety and resilience of natural gas storage, pipeline infrastructure
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
A grey reef shark, Cairns Aquarium, Australia.

Bioinspired design reduces drag and noise production for towed sonar arrays

04/01/24 — Textured surface mimics shark skin to make underwater instruments more effective and environmentally friendly
McLaughlin Hall, College of Engineering at UC Berkeley.

Berkeley Engineering celebrates 2024 mentoring award winners

03/27/24 — Recipients recognized by the UC Berkeley Graduate Division for helping students succeed
Schematic illustration of the COF structure, polymer and nanofibrils.

Molecular weaving makes polymer composites stronger without compromising function

03/21/24 — College of Chemistry: New discovery could have a “huge impact on the materials industry”
EU AI Act panel (from left to right): Yiaway Yeh, Deborah Raji, Stuart Russell, Gerard de Graaf and Pamela Samuelson.

UC Berkeley summit tackles AI governance, trust, ethical tech

03/21/24 — School of Information: Computer scientists Stuart Russell and Deborah Raji discuss European Union AI Act
(from left) UC Berkeley professors Hillel Adesnik, Laura Waller, and Rikky Muller, and UC Berkeley graduate student Liz Murray pose in Waller’s lab with a prototype of their neurotechnology for two-way communication with the brain.

Mind-blowing science: ‘Star Wars-style’ holograms to communicate with the brain

03/19/24 — CZ Biohub: UC Berkeley scientists are taking brain-machine interfaces to a new level with support from Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco
Vayu Hill-Maini is working to unlock the richly diverse genomes of fungi to engineer them into meat alternatives. Here, he holds petri dishes of growing fungi; the one on the left is the original mold, the right has been engineered using the team

It’s hearty, it’s meaty, it’s mold

03/14/24 — Berkeley Lab: Bioengineers are hacking the genome of fungi for smart foods of the future
Rebecca Abergel, Boubacar Kante, and Jay Keasling, 2024 Bakar Prize winners.

Rebecca Abergel, Boubacar Kanté, Jay Keasling win 2024 Bakar Prize

03/12/24 — Award helps campus innovators translate their discoveries into real-world solutions
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