Press Releases

Visit Berkeley's Public Affairs site for a complete list of press releases from the Berkeley campus.

May 15, 2013 UC Berkeley NewsCenter Students' 'Big Ideas' tackle societal problems

UC Berkeley’s annual Big Ideas contest honored this year’s crop of outstanding social projects targeting money matters, water technology and cultural taboos during a special awards celebration at the Blum Center for Developing Economies.

May 14, 2013 UC Berkeley NewsCenter Ugandan AIDS orphan discovers power of the pedal

The humble bicycle propelled AIDS orphan Chris Ategeka from rural East Africa to UC Berkeley, driving him to success as a mechanical engineer, inventor and social entrepreneur. Now he is empowering his former countrymen, one bicycle at a time, to repay the random acts of kindness that allowed him to live his dream.

May 14, 2013 UC Berkeley NewsCenter Wireless signals could transform brain trauma diagnostics

New technology developed by engineers at UC Berkeley is using wireless signals to provide real-time, non-invasive diagnoses of brain swelling or bleeding. The device could potentially become a cost-effective tool for medical diagnostics and to triage injuries in remote areas.

May 09, 2013 UC Berkeley NewsCenter University Medal goes to wunderkind Ritankar Das

Ritankar Das, a double major in bioengineering and chemical biology, caps off his whirlwind tenure at UC Berkeley this month by being named the year’s top graduating senior. At 18, Das is the youngest University Medalist in at least a century.

Apr 24, 2013 UC Berkeley NewsCenter Three engineering professors among Berkeley's new AAAS members

Jitendra Malik and Bin Yu, both professors of electrical engineering and computer sciences, and Frances Hellman, of physics and materials science & engineering, are among 10 UC Berkeley faculty members named Wednesday as new members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Apr 18, 2013 UC Berkeley NewsCenter Disaster expert cites “failure to learn” for Deepwater Horizon blowout

Bob Bea, professor of civil engineering and an internationally recognized veteran of disaster investigations, shared his assessment of the Deepwater Horizon blowout at an April 17 talk on campus. He called the event a “system disaster” that exemplified a “failure to learn” from past mistakes.

Apr 11, 2013 UC Berkeley NewsCenter Launch of antimalarial drug a triumph for Berkeley, synthetic biology

Twelve years after a breakthrough discovery in his Berkeley laboratory, chemical engineering professor Jay Keasling is seeing his dream come true with the launch of large-scale production of a partially synthetic version of artemisinin, a chemical critical to making today’s front-line antimalaria drug.

Mar 26, 2013 UC Berkeley NewsCenter Making living matter programmable

A dozen of the pioneers of synthetic biology, including SynBERC director and bioengineer Jay Keasling, gathered on campus March 25 to discuss the revolutionary potential of “programming life,” which some compared to the digital revolution.

Mar 25, 2013 UC Berkeley NewsCenter Artificial intelligence expert Robert Wilensky dies at 61

Robert Wilensky, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of computer science and one of the campus’s first faculty members in the field of artificial intelligence, has died at age 61.

Mar 19, 2013 UC Berkeley NewsCenter Engineering grad students find privacy vulnerability in T-Mobile smartphones

A security flaw discovered by two graduate students during a computer security course at UC Berkeley would allow attackers to eavesdrop on and even modify calls and text messages sent via T-Mobile’s “Wi-Fi Calling” feature.

Mar 19, 2013 UC Berkeley NewsCenter BioE's Terry Johnson among 5 Berkeley distinguished teachers

Terry Johnson, lecturer in bioengineering, is one of five UC Berkeley faculty members selected as recipients of the 2012 Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus’s most prestigious honor for teaching.

Mar 14, 2013 UC Berkeley NewsCenter In Richmond, a hands-on approach to energy tech

Just three miles from the future Richmond Bay Campus, the Northern California Workshop for Energy Technologies, organized by the College of Engineering, underscored the need for businesses, governments and educators to work together to create jobs in advanced manufacturing.