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A team of UC Berkeley researchers successfully tested a solar-powered water harvester that collected water from the air in the Arizona desert in October 2017.
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Eight UC Berkeley faculty were elected to the National Academy of Sciences this year, bringing the number of living campus faculty in the NAS up to 135.
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UC Berkeley hosted royalty in its own California Hall on Feb. 23 as Her Royal Highness Princess Sumaya bint el Hassan of Jordan was presented with a Chancellor’s Citation in recognition of her work promoting scientific research endeavors.
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Paul Alivisatos, who will become the campus’s vice chancellor for research in March after seven years as director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been awarded the international Dan David Prize for his work in the field of nanoscience.
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Easily taken for granted as a simplistic art form, weaving remains one of the most elegant means of producing durable materials — and scientists are only beginning to realize its potential in areas ranging from clean energy applications to electronics manufacturing.
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Researchers from UC Berkeley and several other universities have uncovered more in depth the process by which certain three-dimensional crystals function.
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A newly formed multidisciplinary alliance between UC Berkeley and the world’s largest chemical company that launched Wednesday could one day lead to groundbreaking innovations such as printed electronics.
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