Six UC Berkeley faculty elected to National Academy of Engineering

Six faculty members at the University of California, Berkeley, are among 68 new members and nine foreign associates elected today (Wednesday, Feb. 17) to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The new UC Berkeley members are Lisa Alvarez-Cohen, Fred and Claire Sauer Professor and chair of civil and environmental engineering; Eugene Haller, Liao-Cho Innovation Endowed Chair and professor of materials science; Michael Jordan, Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in electrical engineering and computer sciences and in statistics; Jay Keasling, Hubbard Howe Jr. Distinguished Professor of Biochemical Engineering; Arthur Rosenfeld, professor emeritus of physics; and Xiang Zhang, Ernest S. Kuh Endowed Chair and professor of mechanical engineering. Election to the NAE is considered one of the most prestigious professional distinctions accorded to an American engineer. With today's announcement, there are now 88 NAE members at UC Berkeley among the 2,267 total U.S. members and 196 foreign associates.