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Berkeley Engineering Today
Teams of independent engineers and federal bridge experts will scrutinize the repairs Caltrans and a contractor are making to a failed structural fix on the Bay Bridge. Berkeley Engineering professors C. William Ibbs and Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl offer comments and critique.
Ultrasound and underwater sonar devices could "see" a big improvement thanks to the development at UC Berkeley of the world's first acoustic hyperlens, which provides an eightfold boost in the magnification power of sound-based imaging technologies. "We have successfully carried out an experimental demonstration of an acoustic hyperlens that magnifies sub-wavelength objects by gradually converting evanescent waves into propagating waves," said Berkeley Engineering professor Xiang Zhang, a principal investigator.
Filling some of the remaining holes in the Obama administration's energy and environmental team, the Senate yesterday confirmed one Interior and two Energy department nominees.
The Senate unanimously approved Arun Majumdar, professor of engineering and materials science at UC Berkeley, to direct the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. At the confirmation hearing, Majumdar pledged to grow the agency into "a robust engine of American innovation."
Ting Xu, a professor of materials science at the University of California at Berkeley, transforms molecules into mini hard drives with massive storage capacity. She has been named one PopSci's annual Brilliant 10 -- a selection of the brightest young researchers in the country.
The chilling video of a small plane and helicopter colliding over the Hudson River in early August showed that technology can't always protect the crowded skies. "We're interested in developing automated collision avoidance algorithms that can be used for civilian aircraft in the air traffic control system," said Claire Tomlin, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
With recent advances in biochemistry, researchers can control the circuitry in a developing cell, thereby influencing cells to develop into specific phenotypes. Researchers Daniel Cohen and Michel Maharbiz at Berkeley Engineering have demonstrated a new technique to control gene expression in two dimensions over time. And they have done so using a slightly modified $100 inkjet printer.
A study led by researchers at UC Berkeley has identified critical biochemical pathways linked to the aging of human muscle. "Our study shows that the ability of old human muscle to be maintained and repaired by muscle stem cells can be restored to youthful vigor given the right mix of biochemical signals," said Professor Irina Conboy, a faculty member in bioengineering at Berkeley and one of the lead authors on the study.
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