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A vibrantly colored bird.

April 24, 2025

Scientists trick the eye into seeing new color ‘olo’

In Frank Baum’s original novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Emerald City is said to be such a brilliant shade of green that visitors must wear green-tinted glasses to protect their eyes from “the brightness and glory” of the city. The glasses are one of the…

April 24, 2025

UC Berkeley celebrates opening of Grimes Engineering Center

Students, faculty, staff, key benefactors and the legendary Oski the Bear came together Monday for a festive celebration of the opening of the Grimes Engineering Center, a new hub on the north side of campus. UC Berkeley Engineering marked this exciting milestone — just two years after the building’s groundbreaking…

April 17, 2025

Broadcom expands support for UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab

Following VMware’s long-standing sponsorship, Broadcom is deepening its collaboration with UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab through a $4 million gift. This expanded collaboration reinforces a shared commitment to innovation and interoperability, building on both organizations’ histories of addressing complex industry challenges through cutting-edge research. The Sky Computing Lab, and its…

April 16, 2025

UC Berkeley’s Marvell NanoLab gets high-tech boost with Lam Research gift

Researchers at UC Berkeley Engineering will soon have access to a multimillion-dollar semiconductor manufacturing system that will enable the fabrication of nanoscale semiconductor devices for next-generation chip technologies. Lam Research, headquartered in Fremont, Calif., has donated an innovative multi-chamber etching system to the Berkeley Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory at…

April 11, 2025

EECS Faculty and Alumni recognized with UC Berkeley Achievement Awards

Each year, UC Berkeley honors exceptional members of its community through the Achievement Awards. These awards recognize industry-shaping leaders, devoted alumni who have deeply impacted the campus, and young graduates whose early accomplishments show great promise. The awards are co-presented by the UC Berkeley Foundation and the Cal Alumni Association.

Researchers connect Ann's brain implant to the voice synthesizer computer. (Photo by Noah Berger)

March 31, 2025

Brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis restores naturalistic speech

Marking a breakthrough in the field of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), a team of researchers from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco has unlocked a way to restore naturalistic speech for people with severe paralysis. This work solves the long-standing challenge of latency in speech neuroprostheses, the time lag between when…

March 20, 2025

Dan Garcia wins UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award

EECS Teaching Professor Dan Garcia has won the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award. Garcia is one of five UC Berkeley instructors who have been honored with the 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award, the university’s highest recognition for teaching excellence. Announced by the Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching, the award celebrates educators…

February 28, 2025

BPEC students win First Best Place Demo Award at IEEE ECCE 2024

Graduate students Logan Horowitz, S. Tahmid Mahbub, Jiarui Zou, and Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski have received a First Best Place Demo Award at the recent 2024 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE). Their innovative thermal test vehicle design provides a dynamic platform that simulates the heat generation of high-performance GPUs…