Press Releases

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May 07, 2008 UC Berkeley NewsCenter Technology, biotech ventures tie for first in Business Plan Competition

New search technology provider Implicit Interfaces and biotech venture Titan Medical tied for first place at the 10th annual UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition, co-hosted by UC Berkeley's Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haas School of Business, the College of Engineering, and the School of Information, as well as by UC San Francisco.

May 05, 2008 UC Berkeley NewsCenter Energy Biosciences Institute awards first biofuels grants

The Energy Biosciences Institute, the worlds largest public/private consortium dedicated to the application of biosciences to the energy sector, has announced an initial set of 49 research projects for funding during the first year of EBI's 10-year program. Projects are being supported at all three of the public partner institutions the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

May 03, 2008 UC Berkeley NewsCenter A message to the UC Berkeley community from Chancellor Robert Birgeneau

We have learned that one of our students, Christopher Wootton, a senior in engineering who would have graduated this month, was stabbed in an altercation as he walked home on the southside of campus early Saturday morning. He died on the way to the hospital. We have spoken with Christopher's father and offered the campus's sincerest condolences to his family for their terrible loss.

May 01, 2008 UC Berkeley NewsCenter $2 million for sustainability projects designed by students and faculty

Twenty-three projects aimed at helping people live more sustainably have been granted a total of $2 million through a new program at the University of California, Berkeley, that is funded by the Dow Chemical Co. Foundation. Winning projects announced this week include cost-effective water purification and hygiene technologies, sustainable packaging, renewable fuels, and new courses and seminars on sustainability.

Apr 29, 2008 UC Berkeley NewsCenter Engineers harness cell phone technology for use in medical imaging

With an innovative concept developed by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, the ubiquitous cell phone could one day be used to make medical imaging accessible to billions of people around the world.

Apr 28, 2008 UC Berkeley NewsCenter Five faculty elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Five University of California, Berkeley, faculty members are among 212 scholars, scientists, artists, civic, corporate and philanthropic leaders elected today to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. The new members include Ruzena Bajcsy, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences.

Apr 22, 2008 UC Berkeley NewsCenter 'Thinking big' about energy, water, and waste

During Earth Week, student-organized Sustainability Summit marks the growing maturity, and institutionalization, of UC Berkeley's greening movement.

Apr 17, 2008 UC Berkeley NewsCenter Energy expert Alex Farrell has died

Alexander E. Farrell, an associate professor in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, who worked closely with state government over the past year to chart a course to reduce California's carbon emissions, died earlier this week at his home in San Francisco. He was 46.

Apr 02, 2008 UC Berkeley NewsCenter Celebrating Berkeley’s blue ribbons, gold stars, and honorable mentions

Recent honors to Berkeley Engineering faculty have gone to David Patterson, first director of Berkeley’s new Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers and recipient of the 2007 Distinguished Service Award, given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery; Christos Papadimitriou (pictured), C. Lester Hogan Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and recipient of Carnegie Mellon University’s second annual Katayanagi Prize for Research Excellence; and Paul Gray, Andrew S. Grove Chair in Electrical Engineering and recipient of the 2008 Robert N. Noyce Medal for pioneering the development of analog circuits.

Apr 01, 2008 UC Berkeley NewsCenter Running, swimming, and flying for science

Berkeley's Center for Integrative Biomechanics in Research and Education (CiBER) laboratory contains state-of-the-art equipment devoted to helping students, visiting scientists, and others discover the secrets of nature's designs. Undergraduate biology and engineering majors are using the laboratory in a course whose curriculum -- uncertain and investigative in nature -- is designed to unleash a storm of collaborative creativity along the way.

Mar 31, 2008 UC Berkeley NewsCenter Berkeley Engineering graduate program ranked third in the nation

Berkeley Engineering has kept its position as one of the top three engineering graduate programs in the country in U.S. News & World Report's 2009 rankings, released March 31. Rankings for engineering specialties were also published, with Berkeley's Bioengineering, Materials Science, and Computer Engineering departmental rankings rising compared to 2008. Berkeley ranks in first place for Civil Engineering, Computer Science, and Chemical Engineering.

Mar 18, 2008 UC Berkeley NewsCenter Intel and Microsoft launch parallel computing research center at UC Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley, is partnering with Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. to accelerate developments in parallel computing and advance the powerful benefits of multi-core processing to mainstream consumer and business computers. "This is a once-in-a-career opportunity to recast the foundations of information technology and influence the entire IT industry for decades to come," said David Patterson, UC Berkeley professor of computer sciences and a pioneering expert in computer architecture.