Berkeley Engineering

#DidYouKnow: UC Berkeley Engineering continues to offer the top public engineering grad program in the nation (as well as No. 3 overall), according to U.S. News! 🐻⚙️ See how our majors stack up: bit.ly/3NQJkgy

Good afternoon, can we interest you in some Berkeley Engineering gear? 🐻⚙️ Our online pop-up shop runs ’til May 18. We’ve got exclusive designs from T-shirts to water bottles to dad caps… and more! Get your gear: bit.ly/4wl2jkP Go Bears!

Two unrelated groups of nectar eaters, hummingbirds and sunbirds, evolved different techniques to slurp the liquid from flowers. The tongue suctioning employed by sunbirds is unique among vertebrates! This is a case of convergent evolution. bit.ly/42yKgcR

Ting Xu, professor of materials science and engineering and of chemistry, is working to convert proteins from waste materials into biodegradable fibers. It’s an effort that received $10 million in funding from the Bezos Earth Fund today. Learn more: bit.ly/4mOfDtn

UC Berkeley’s AI Leadership Accelerator brought together global executives to explore #AI strategy, governance, and implementation through faculty-led sessions, workshops, and industry perspectives. hubs.li/Q04d0tLb0 #ucberkeley #executiveeducation #leadership @Cal_Engineer

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Grimes Engineering Center's grand opening! Here’s a little timelapse of the construction process. (Video by Adam Lau / Berkeley Engineering)

So many fun moments during our Cal Day kickoff at Haas Pavilion on Saturday! We can’t wait for our new admits to start their first semester at Berkeley Engineering. 💙💛 (Photos by Adam Lau / Berkeley Engineering)

Congratulations to our newest transfer class...WELCOME TO UC BERKELEY!  🐻💙💛 You earned this. We’re so excited to celebrate you and hope to see you on campus this fall. Be sure to check your MAP@Berkeley portal for information about upcoming transfer receptions! #GoBears

Berkeley engineers, are you ready?! 🐻⚙️ Today is Cal Day, a starting point for our new admits’ academic journey at Berkeley. Here are scenes from this morning, when Berkeley Engineering kicked off our festivities at Haas Pavilion. Welcome, and Go Bears! 💙💛

Two historians, a biologist and a bioengineer from UC Berkeley have won illustrious Guggenheim Fellowships and will pursue independent work under “the freest possible conditions.” news.berkeley.edu/2026/04/17/fou…

@pdhsu @arcinstitute James is now pursuing a Ph.D. in bioengineering professor @icclarker’s lab, where he is developing scalable ways to measure how genetic and chemical changes reshape cell state. Learn more: bit.ly/4csvDfU

To expand what genome engineering could do, James joined bioengineering professor @pdhsu’s lab at the @arcinstitute, where he helped characterize bridge editing, an RNA-guided recombinase system for programmable DNA insertion and rearrangement.

Congratulations to James Pai, Ph.D. student in @BerkeleyBioE, who was just awarded a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans! Born in California and raised in Taiwan, James has built a research repertoire on “the idea that DNA is code.”

🚀🐮 MOFarm, born in SCET’s RegenVen course, became the first @UCBerkeley team to place in the @ACCInVenture, winning 2nd place and $10,000 for its methane-to-value model for dairy farms. @SkyDeck_Cal @BigIdeasContest @Cal_Engineer Read the full story: hubs.li/Q04c5fhW0

@cal_engineer @berkeleycee PhD candidate Zhe Fu Receives 2026 Outstanding Graduate Peer Mentor Award! its.berkeley.edu/news/fu-receiv…

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CONGRATS to our 2026 Berkeley #GradSlam winners! 🥇 1st place: Carla Bassil, "Machine Learning Assisted Gas Sensor Chip for Food Safety Applications" via @Berkeley_EECS 🥈 2nd place: Avinia Ismiyati, "More Than Bad Posture: Using AI and Human Factors to Predict Work-Related Pain" 🏆 People’s Choice: Kavita Parekh, "Beyond the Band-Aid: Rebuilding Muscle After Severe Injury" via @BerkeleyBioE Revisit the winning research talks and stay tuned for the @UofCalifornia competition on April 22! bit.ly/4uCrI8z #GradSlam #BerkeleyGraduateStudents #GradLifeAtBerkeley

Matei Zaharia, associate professor of EECS and a cofounder and CTO of Databricks, has been awarded the ACM Prize in Computing! Learn more: bit.ly/4vbNujK

UC Berkeley remains a powerhouse for prestigious graduate programs, with more than 50 earning top marks in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings. news.berkeley.edu/2026/04/07/uc-…

NextProf Nexus applications and letters of reference are due TOMORROW, Tuesday, 4/7. If you want to learn what it's like to be an engineering faculty member and how to get there, please apply. nextprof.engin.umich.edu/nextprof-nexus/