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Maria Paz Gutierrez standing next to a structure that looks like corrugated cardboard.

Milestones

UC Berkeley professor showcases flood-resilient architecture at international exhibition

Maria Paz Gutierrez, Bakar Fellow and Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley, is showcasing her work at Biennale Architettura in Venice.

circular cutouts displaying headshots of 11 people

Awards

Bakar Fellows program partners with Academic Innovation Catalyst to announce 2024 Spark Awards

Awards

From EarEEG to quantum computing, Bakar Prize winners go for broke

Felix Fischer with beard standing next to big microscope

Awards

Combining chemistry and physics to build materials for next-gen tech

thumbnails of 7 Bakar Fellows

Bakar Fellows program names seven new Spark Award recipients

collage of the four Bakar Fellows in their labs

Four innovative faculty members awarded campus’s 2022 Bakar Prize

Boubacar Kante and Wanwoo Noh

Making lasers more efficient, versatile and compact

Michael Yartsev

Can bats help us design a better driverless car?

Norman Yao holding a synthetic diamond

Physicist Norman Yao puts diamonds under pressure

Russell Vance

Silencing the silencer — a new strategy to fight cancer

Wang and Roychodhury with the Bells Labs Prize trophy

Engineers pursue novel way to tackle some of today’s hardest computations

portrait of Rikky Muller

Earbuds that read your mind

Maria Paz Gutierrez

Lichens may one day detoxify the air in your home