How does a mature organization change business-as-usual to meet aggressive sustainability goals over the coming decades? John Elliott, Chief Sustainability Officer at Berkley Lab, will […]

The state of California has embraced an ambitious goal of meeting its future energy needs while increasing its use of renewable energy. But a recent […]

The NAE’s Engineering Grand Challenges directive has led to a renewed focus within engineering education on the connections between engineering and the well-being of society. […]

Save the date! The 10th Annual Sustainability Summit will be on Monday, April 22 from 2-5PM and it will be held at Sutardja Dai Hall. […]

The NAE’s Engineering Grand Challenges directive has led to a renewed focus within engineering education on the connections between engineering and the well-being of society. […]

Energy and Resources Group Spring 2013 Colloquium Series (ER295)

Being the only surviving eyewitness description of Angkor as a lively and fully functional medieval metropolis, the account by Zhou Daguan, a 13th century Chinese […]

The Smart Grid has evolved from a concept to reality in California. In its earliest days, Smart Grid was a collection of interesting ideas for […]

Two recent technology innovations could improve the lives of tens-possibly hundreds-of millions of people among the poorest two billion people on the planet. Both technologies […]

Energy and Resources Group Spring 2013 Colloquium Series (ER295)

Faculty and students are invited to join us at the School of Information for seminars on Data Science and Analytics by exciting speakers from the […]

Somebody once said, “What a damn fool can do for a dollar, an engineer can do for a nickel.” Thinking about cost as an engineering […]

The talk will run from 7:30—8:30pm on Thursday, May 2 in the Berkeley City College basement auditorium. The reception will begin at 7pm with light […]

Throughout time, scholars and craftsmen have developed — and built upon — plausible explanations for what they observe in fields of technology and science. As […]

Our relationships with systems that instruct us to choose ‘strong’ passwords might best be described as high maintenance (a term coined in 1989 by Ephron). […]

Energy storage has often been referred to as the ‘holy grail’ of the electric power system – an unattainable panacea that would greatly improve the […]

Where is design happening at Berkeley? Everywhere! UC Berkeley students from all over campus have been engaging in design to solve a diversity of real-world […]

Energy and Resources Group Spring 2013 Colloquium Series (ER295)

This is the final event in the Berkeley Sawyer Seminar series on “Speciesism and the Future of Humanity,” funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, […]

Our world’s most pressing challenges, such as Climate Change, energy insecurity, water insecurity, social inequity, and food insecurity are integrated challenges that are marked by […]

The complexities of health care research require a collaborative and multi-disciplinary approach to provide innovative solutions to today’s health care needs. By leveraging expertise across […]

This three-day symposium will bring together distinguished speakers and participants from the Bay Area and all over the world to celebrate both the excitement of […]

In 2008 we opened the Par Lab saying that industry needs the research community to help succeed in its sudden switch from serial to parallel […]

In Spring 2013, we are on the precipice of dramatic, disruptive change in the health field that offers an unprecedented opportunity and challenge to transform […]

In Spring 2013, we are on the precipice of dramatic, disruptive change in the health field that offers an unprecedented opportunity and challenge to transform […]

In 2008 we opened the Par Lab saying that industry needs the research community to help succeed in its sudden switch from serial to parallel […]

Due to popular demand, a morning session has been added for this performance improvement workshop with Dr. Tom Jackson! (It has the same content as […]

In many parts of the world, rapid changes are occurring in both governance and the state of the environment. From social movements mobilized around environmental […]