Oct 20, 2009 Discover Magazine Doctor on-call? Cell-phone cameras can diagnose disease

Places that are well served by advanced cellular phone networks may lack the modern medical facilities necessary to diagnose and treat serious illness. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have developed the CellScope, a microscope that attaches to a camera-equipped cell phone, snaps magnified pictures of disease samples, and transmits them to medical labs across the country or around the world.

Oct 19, 2009 Popular Science Ten young geniuses shaking up science today: Ting Xu

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.

Oct 15, 2009 UC Berkeley NewsCenter NSF authorizes $29 million for world's deepest underground lab

The National Science Foundation has authorized more than $29 million for the University of California, Berkeley, to create a preliminary plan for turning a former gold mine in South Dakota into the world's deepest laboratory.

Oct 15, 2009 UC Berkeley NewsCenter UC Berkeley professor among Popular Science magazine's 'Brilliant 10'

An engineer at the University of California, Berkeley, has been pegged as an up-and-coming scientist to watch by the magazine Popular Science. The publication announced today that Ting Xu, 35, assistant professor of materials science and engineering and of chemistry, is one of the "Brilliant 10" young researchers profiled in its November issue.

Oct 14, 2009 Reuters Energy-proportional computing and climate change

Berkeley Engineering professor Randy Katz has spearheaded a group at Berkeley called LoCal, which is attempting to define and implement the steps to arrive at energy-proportional computing. This effort will play a big role in the conservation of energy and the fight against climate change.

Oct 14, 2009 Wired Science DASH, the scampering cockroach-bot

Paul Birkmeyer and Professor Ronald Fearing at the Biomimetic Millisystems Lab at UC Berkeley created the Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod, or DASH robot, to demonstrate the benefits of its smart composite microstructures (SCM) fabrication process.

Oct 13, 2009 National Science Foundation Unmanned helicopters could help air traffic controllers

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.

Oct 13, 2009 Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center Symposium to mark 20-year anniversary of Loma Prieta

The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER), headquartered at UC Berkeley, will host a day-long program marking the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake. The "Loma Prieta Earthquake Commemorative Symposium" will take place in San Francisco on October 17.

Oct 12, 2009 UC Berkeley NewsCenter Oliver Williamson named a winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Oliver E. Williamson, a University of California, Berkeley, professor emeritus of business, economics and law, and an expert in anti-trust, deregulation and transaction cost economics, is a winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. This is the fifth economics Nobel for UC Berkeley and the 21st in its history.

Oct 06, 2009 The New York Times Pentagon research director visits universities in bid to re-energize partnerships

Regina E. Dugan, the new director of the Pentagon's research arm, has started visiting university campuses around the country in an effort to rebuild bridges that were severed under the Bush administration. As the new head of Darpa, Dugan made visits last week to UC Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, and CalTech. "She seems to genuinely value academic input into the defense research enterprise and really wants to re-engage the research community in the Darpa mission," said David Patterson, a computer scientist Berkeley.

Oct 06, 2009 Payvand Iran News Dr. Lotfi Zadeh, winner of 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering

The 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering has been presented to Berkeley Engineering professor Lotfi Zadeh for his invention and development of the field of fuzzy logic, a mathematical system that captures aspects of the ambiguity of human language and thought, which has solved problems in areas such as artificial intelligence and the automated control of machines.

Oct 05, 2009 PhysOrg.com Scientists use inkjet printer to manipulate genes in new ways

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.