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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.

Connected Corridors, a project led by engineering professors Alex Bayen and Roberto Horowitz, is developing technologies to help Caltrans gather and analyze traffic data. A goal of the research: to make existing roadways more efficient, rather than launching new highway-construction projects.

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.

Borg is a Google software system that coordinates tasks across the search giant's vast fleet of servers. At Twitter, a small team of engineers has built a similar system using Mesos, an open-source software platform developed by UC Berkeley researchers. Ben Hindman, who founded the Mesos project as an EECS Ph.D. student, now oversees its use at Twitter.

Marvell co-founder Weili Dai, B.S. ’84 CS, was one of 11 remarkable California women honored Monday by the state assembly's Legislative Women's Caucus with a "Breaking the Glass Ceiling" award, saluting her work as an entrepreneur and technology pioneer.

Berkeley’s Class of 2013 has chosen Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, EECS '86, to be keynote speaker at its May 18 Commencement Convocation at Memorial Stadium.

Civil engineering professor Bob Bea, who leads off testimony this week in the trial of BP and other companies involved in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout, is profiled for his work as "the nation's foremost forensic engineer ... the guy to call when levees break or oil rigs explode – to sift through the wreckage, assign blame, and try to prevent the same mistakes again."

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In a boost for biomimicry and self-assembling molecular systems, Berkeley Lab researchers have shown that a concept widely accepted as describing the folding of a single individual protein is also applicable to the self-assembly of multiple proteins.

PaR-PaR is a simple high-level robot-programming language that makes it much easier for researchers in the biological sciences to teach their robots new tricks.

Berkeley Lab's lead in laser plasma acceleration research continues with new benchmarks for electron beam quality.

The new building will house the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), the DOE Energy Innovation Hub for Fuels from Sunlight

Berkeley Lab researchers were surprised to find that indoor CO2, previously thought harmless, has significant adverse effects on the ability to think strategically and make decisions.

Scientists have identified tissue mechanisms that may influence a woman's susceptibility or resistance to breast cancer after exposure to low-dose radiation, such as the levels used in full-body CT scans and radiotherapy.

By encapsulating metallic nanoclusters within the branched molecular arms of dendrimers, Lab researchers have combined the best properties of heterogeneous and homogeneous industrial catalysts.

At the Lab's Open House this past Saturday, the last remaining unnamed main road was christened for the 2011 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, Saul Perlmutter.

Berkeley Lab researchers have unlocked the ferromagnetic secrets of promising materials.

A team led by Berkeley Lab's Ashok Gadgil is the recipient of the 5th Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water. The prize recognizes his team for developing an innovative technology for affordable arsenic-safe drinking water in Bangladesh and nearby regions.