Maribel Castillo

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Congrats to CEE staff member Maribel Castillo on her UC Berkeley 2023 ALIANZA Latinx Staff Award selection! (Photo Credit: Pooja Nerkar/Berkeley CEE)
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Congrats to Maribel Castillo for receiving the 2023 UC Berkeley ALIANZA Latinx Staff Award! Castillo assists with managing and answering questions regarding CEE Graduate admissions, maintaining the Academic Admissions Office (AAO) email to respond to inquiries, and overseeing GSI/Reader hiring. This award intends to recognize and celebrate the achievements, contributions, and talents of Latinx-identifying staff within UC Berkeley. This recognition aims to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion by acknowledging these individuals' unique experiences and leadership of these individuals and their impact on the University. 

As the campus' first annual Latinx Staff Award, the goal is to recognize exceptional commitment to making UC Berkeley a better place to work, learn, and belong by giving back to the university community. Certificates of recognition were distributed to each awardee at Alumni House on Thursday, October 12, recognizing their accomplishments.

Kenichi Soga Delivers Keynote Speech at the Fourth International Symposium on Machine Learning & Big Data in Geoscience

CEE Professor Kenichi Soga presented a keynote titled "Smart Geo-Infrastructure - From Sensing to Machine Learning" during the fourth International Symposium on Machine Learning & Big Data in Geoscience, held in Cork, Ireland. The symposium's theme was data-centric solutions for reshaping the next-generation geo-industries, and the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering hosted the symposium.

Melinda Ng

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Melinda Ng (CEE ‘96) just had her debut novel Mattie and the Machine released by Santa Monica Press (under the pen name Lynn Ng Quezon).
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Melinda Ng (CEE ‘96) just had her debut novel Mattie and the Machine released by Santa Monica Press (under the pen name Lynn Ng Quezon). The YA historical is a fictionalized account of 19th-century inventor Margaret Knight’s journey to obtaining her first patent.
 
She has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the Grateful American Book Prize. This prize is awarded each year to high-quality, 7th to 9th-grade-level historical fiction and non-fiction, about the events and personalities that have shaped the United States since its founding. It comes with $13,000 in commemoration of the 13 Colonies, a lifetime membership at the New York Historical Society, and a medallion created by Smith’s mother, the renowned artist, Clarice Smith.
 


 

 

 

Christian Lander

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Christian Lander (B.S.’23 CE) works as a project engineer at XL Construction, the company in charge of construction work on the new Engineering Center (Photo Credit: Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering).
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Christian Lander (B.S.'23 CE) works as a project engineer at XL Construction, the company in charge of construction work on the new Engineering Center. Last month, Lander took Cal Construction's commercial team on a tour of the construction site. He was a member of the student group not too long ago.

"I used to study in this building," he said. "It's a huge blessing to build this project and know that you're not only impacting the students now but the students 20 years from now."

Like Christian, we know that when Berkeley Engineering students collaborate, it fuels innovation and change — and hope for a better tomorrow. The new Engineering building is slated to open in 2025, transforming the student experience for future generations. With your gift, you're helping to support a space that will equip and empower our best and brightest engineering leaders.

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