April 28, 2025
UC Berkeley EECS Professor Dawn Song has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, joining five other UC Berkeley faculty members honored this year, the Academy announced in a recent press release. Dawn Song is the co-Director of UC Berkeley Center on Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI).
April 24, 2025
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
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
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
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 15, 2025
In a study recently published in Nature Electronics, researchers demonstrated how their sweat sensor measures electrodermal activity (EDA), an electrical property of the skin, to monitor hydration levels during physical activity. Until now, EDA, or skin conductance, has been thought to be effective at assessing only mental stress. These…
April 11, 2025
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.
April 8, 2025
UC Berkeley’s graduate programs in computer science, computer engineering and electrical engineering continue to receive high rankings by U.S. News & World Report, according to 2025 rankings released April 8. The following rankings were given to Berkeley graduate programs: #1 in…
March 31, 2025
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
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…