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Press Releases
Visit Berkeley's
Public Affairs site for a complete list of press releases from
the Berkeley campus.
2006
2005
- Bioengineering Professor Dan Fletcher Uncovers Cell Growth Secret (12.27.05)
- Governor appoints energy professor emeritus Robert Sawyer to chair Air Resources Board (12.23.05)
- Transportation researchers get DaimlerChrysler hydrogen car for the holidays (12.20.05)
- Google, Microsoft and Sun fund new UC Berkeley Internet research center (12.15.05)
- BioE excels in Technology Breakthrough Competition (11.30.05)
- Investigators release preliminary findings of levee failures at Senate hearing
(11.02.05)
- Researchers showcase innovative transportation projects at international conference
(11.01.05)
- John
V. Wehausen, leader in marine hydrodynamics, dies at 92
(10.27.05)
- Fahrenheit 20/20 (10.25.05)
- Berkeley Scientists Synthesize Cheap, Easy-to-Make Ultra-thin Photovoltaic Films
(10.20.05)
- Paul
Gray will step down as executive vice chancellor and provost
in July 2006 (10.11.05)
- Jeff Hawkins, computing pioneer, endows new center to develop model of brain (10.6.05)
- Researchers
use laser amplifier to slow light at room temperature (10.3.05)
- Engineers
studying levee failures in New Orleans (10.3.05)
- Investment
in energy R&D declines despite soaring prices, supply problems (9.26.05)
- Researchers reveal twists and turns of Spiroplasma bacteria's movements (9.22.05)
- Researchers recover typed text using audio recording of keystrokes (9.14.05)
- UC Berkeley launches
Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (9.13.05)
- Caltrans awards $2.25 million to UC Berkeley-based center to study siesmic safty of transportation systems (8.22.05)
- Researchers develop technique to use dirty silicon (8.15.05)
- UC Berkeley part of NSF-funded center to study e-voting (8.15.05)
- Scientists exploit HIV's noisy genetics to force virus into latency (8.8.05)
- U.S. universities, industry in win-win agreement with India (7.20.05)
- Researchers use a light emitting diode (LED) to shuffle single cells and particles (7.20.05)
- UC Berkeley, Yahoo team up to research new Internet technologies (7.15.05)
- Researchers create first nanofluidic transistor, the basis of future chemical processors (6.28.05)
- Materials science researcher receives early career award (6.13.05)
- Microsoft Research names first winners of New Faculty Fellowship awards (5.25.05)
- Two UC Berkeley faculty elected to American Philosophical Society (5.10.05)
- New superlens opens door to nanoscale optical imaging and high-density optoelectronic devices (4.21.05)
- UC Berkeley to lead $19 million NSF center on cybersecurity research (4.11.05)
- 2005 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Winners Announced (4.8.05)
- Shankar Sastry named new director of UC Berkeley-based CITRIS (4.5.05)
- Lawrence Talbot, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, dies at age 79 (3.23.05)
- Researchers developing MicroJet for ouchless injections (3.16.05)
- UC researchers create model of brain's electrical storm during a seizure (2.23.05)
- UC Berkeley chancellor named to Prop. 71 stem cell oversight committee (2.15.05)
- Five UC Berkeley professors elected to prestigious National Academy of Engineering (2.14.05)
- UC Berkeley, leads nation in prepping students for doctorates (1.31.05)
- MetaChip provides quick, efficient toxicity screening of potential drugs (1.21.05)
- Donald Pederson, pioneer in integrated circuit design, dies at 79 (1.5.05)
2004
2003
- T.Y.
Lin, world renowned structural engineer, dies at age 91(11.18.03)
- Amount
of new information doubled in last three years,
UC Berkeley study finds (10.28.03)
- Radar
and Fine Wine: Innovative research uses radar to map soil moisture,
create better wine grapes (10.16.03)
- NSF
awards $5.46 million to UC Berkeley and USC to build testbed for
cyber war games (10.15.03)
- Charles
Wilke, co-founder of UC Berkeley's Department of chemical Engineering,
dies at age 86 (10.14.03)
-
Homeland Secruity names Berkeley students to fellows and scholars
program (09.23.03)
- UC/Cal
State project promotes using waste heat from power generation
to heat and cool buildings (09.18.03)
- Using
packed silver nanowires as sensitive explosives detector (09.11.03)
- Professor
emeritus and mechanics of collision expert Werner Goldsmith dies
at 79 (08.29.03)
- UC
Redwoods go high tech: Researchers use wireless sensors to study
California's state tree (07.28.03)
- UC
Berkeley chancellor announces he'll step down in June 2004
(07.25.03)
- Physicists
build world's smallest motor using nanotubes and etched silicon
(07.23.03)
- UC
Berkeley students rely on sunshine to get their kicks on Route
66 (07.14.03)
- Joseph
A. Pask, professor emeritus and a ceramic engineering pioneer,
dies at 90 (06.24.03)
- Berkeley
researchers help Internet evolve with launch of PlanetLab test-bed
(06.24.03)
- Researchers
develop technique that could open doors to faster nanotech commercialization
(06.23.03)
- Researchers
create potential toxic sensor chip by combining electronics with
living cell (06.09.03)
- Producing
ethanol from corn drains resources, says new report by UC Berkeley
researchers (06.05.03)
- CITRIS
researchers create wireless sensor chip the size of glitter
(06.04.03)
- Researchers
help bring clean water to households in developing nations
(06.02.03)
- Build
it and they will come, says Gov. Gray Davis at groundbreaking
for new facility that's already luring the nation's top researchers
(05.30.03)
- Gov.
Davis to help break ground on new bioscience, bioengineering research
building (05.30.03)
- Overcoming
his own mind, senior Kenny Kamrin trades sleep for service
(05.09.03)
- Innovative
engineering and business graduate Ankur Luthra named University
Medalist (05.05.03)
- Student
nuclear-engineering conference seeks to change attitudes in the
nuke-free zone (04.04.03)
- Cables
hold promise in protecting existing buildings from bombs, researchers
find (02.20.03)
- Astronaut alumnus
reflects on a career on top of the world (02.19.03)
- Computer
science professor Eugene Myers elected to National Academy of
Engineering (02.18.03)
- Spotlight
on student entrepreneurs: At 22, Anthony Levandowski is already
a veteran businessman (02.13.03)
- Sapphire/slammer
worm shatters previous Internet speed records (02.04.03)
- William
Jewell, professor emeritus of operations research and risk analysis
expert, dies at 70 (01.31.03)
2002
- Breaking
Gimpy: Researchers crack security system designed to block Internet
robots (12.10.02)
- Berkeley
engineering student wins prestigious Rhodes Scholarship (12.9.02)
- Campus
memorial service: Even in death, Chang-Lin Tien illuminates and
inspires (11.15.02)
- Six
UC Berkeley professors among 50 top women in science, 50 scientific
visionaries chosen by national science magazines (11.15.02)
- Chang-Lin
Tien, UC Berkeley chancellor from 1990-97 and an internationally
known engineering scholar, dies at age 67 (10.30.02)
- Gene
Myers, computer algorithm pioneer in human genome sequencing,
to join UC Berkeley faculty (10.29.02)
- NSF
grant to UC Berkeley will fund exploration of new types of quantum
computers, steps toward quantum logic and nanoprocessors (9.25.02)
- NSF
gives $13 million for UC Berkeley-led project bridging computer
software and systems science (9.25.02)
- Historic
UC Berkeley building, once home to mining studies, reopens Sunday
to new era of materials science and engineering research (9.18.02)
- Students team up
with professional engineers for a seismic walkabout (9.17.02)
- UC
Berkeley professor Dan Kammen joins EPA's Christine Whitman to
launch initiative to reduce indoor air pollution in Third World
(9.03.02)
- Geckos'
sticky foot hairs provide biological inspiration for synthetic,
self-cleaning, dry adhesive (8.26.02)
- Wireless
sensors from UC Berkeley and Intel researchers help conservation
biologists monitor elusive seabird in Maine (8.5.02)
- UC
Berkeley students take top honors in fuel-economy competition
at 1,068 miles per gallon (6.27.02)
- June
22 symposium to honor former UC Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin
Tien's 40-year career (6.19.02)
- Fragile,
historic Fox Cottage, moved and renovated by UC Berkeley, wins
architectural praise (6.4.02)
- Freezing
cancer cells leaves them more susceptible to attack by anti-cancer
drug, new study finds (5.14.02)
- Engineering
professor among newly elected fellows of American Academy of Arts
& Sciences (5.3.02)
- Three
UC Berkeley faculty members honored today by election to National
Academy of Sciences (4.30.02)
- Engineering
for the blind: UC Berkeley student develops computer drawing,
animation tool for the visually impaired (4.22.02)
- Joe
W. Johnson, UC Berkeley professor emeritus and pioneer in coastal
engineering, dies at age 93 (4.18.02)
-
Legislature votes to fully fund CITRIS (4.16.02)
- Ph.D.
students win $10,000 prize for new type of semiconductor memory
(4.16.02)
- Microsized
microscopes: UC Berkeley researchers develop microlens and scanner
that can provide views inside living cells (3.13.02)
- Two
UC Berkeley professors elected to National Academy of Engineering
for 2002 (2.15.02)
- Making
a 95-year-old landmark able to withstand a major quake (1.10.02)
2001
- Shaking
the foundations of the building industry: UC Berkeley engineers
test retrofitted woodframe structure (12.13.01)
- UC
Berkeley expert on head impacts sets out to change way society
deals with possible shaken baby syndrome (11.27.01)
- Triangular-flapped
aircraft wing designed by UC Berkeley researchers significantly
reduces wake turbulence (11.20.01)
- UC
Berkeley hires prominent researcher with passion to improve lives
through new technology (10.4.01)
- Newest
and oldest UC campuses team up on innovative technology venture
to help California students (10.1.01)
- UC
Berkeley-led initiative to promote societal benefits of information
technology wins $7.5 million grant from NSF (9.25.01)
- Berkeley
professor, students, create Web site to help public know if loved
ones are safe following today's terrorist attacks (9.11.01)
- Cancer-detecting
microchip - a micromachined cantilever - is sensitive assay for
prostate cancer and potentially other diseases, researchers report
(8.30.01)
- Former
President Bill Clinton's science and technology adviser, Thomas
Kalil, takes up post at UC Berkeley (7.31.01)
- UC
Berkeley-led initiative to bring information technology to the
service of society survives state budget process; receives $20
million in first year (7.27.01)
- UC
Berkeley releases draft EIR on state-of-the-art, seismically secure
science and technology buildings (6.20.01)
- "Brainy
buildings using "smart dust" can keep soaring energy costs in
check, say UC Berkeley researchers (5.25.01)
- Internships
give UC Berkeley students rare chance to learn ins and outs of
high tech start-ups from Silicon Valley CEOs (5.18.01)
- Eleven
UC Berkeley faculty members elected to American Academy of Arts
and Sciences (5.9.01)
- NASA
gives Cal students ride of a lifetime to study bone loss in space
(5.2.01)
- UC
Berkeley's top graduate excels in non-traditional field of civil
engineering, with environmental emphasis (5.2.01)
- New
UC Berkeley study center to be named in honor of former chancellor
Chang-Lin Tien (5.1.01)
- Semiconductor
technology takes first place in UC Berkeley business plan competition
(4.26.01)
- Egor
Popov, Berkeley professor and structural engineering pioneer,
dies at age 88 (4.23.01)
- Four
Berkeley faculty members receive coveted Distinguished Teaching
Award (4.23.01)
- UC
Berkeley researchers create world's smallest rotary internal combustion
engine (4.2.01)
-
San Jose tech expo to feature UC Berkeley's latest research (3.8.01)
- Sculptor,
UC Berkeley scientist, fuse math and art with help of soap bubbles,
computers (2.16.01)
- Technological
makeover scheduled for UC Berkeley seismic testing facility (2.6.01)
- Finnish
researchers join with International Computer Science Institute
and UC Berkeley to study technology and the information society
(2.1.01)
- To
protect computerized documents from power blackouts, store them
on Internet, says UC Berkeley researcher (1.22.01)
- New
traffic monitoring system could reduce commute times, says UC
Berkeley researcher (1.17.01)
- Edmund
Laitone, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of mechanical engineering,
dies at age 85 (1.16.01)
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