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Welcome back to Spring 2024!

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Recent news from Berkeley Bioengineering

Congratulations new NSF Fellows!

Congratulations to our new NSF Graduate Research Fellows! Among the winners are current PhD students Kira Buttrey, Emilie Kono, Nathan Lanclos, Brendan Mitchell, Gabriela Pena Carmona, Sarah Wasinger, and Dana Wilkins; incoming PhD students Joseph Asfouri and Corinne Martin; and graduating undergraduates Sushil Bohara, Justin Garlepp, Cyrus Tau and Dhruv Vaish. Well done!

Congratulations 2023-24 Outstanding GSIs!

Congratulations to Outstanding GSI Award Winners for 2023-24 from BioE courses: S. Erfan Ghazimirsaeed, Chinmoy Saayujya and Madeleine Snyder (BioE PhD Student)! The UC Berkeley Outstanding GSI Awards are given to the best GSIs of the year, nominated by the course instructor.

What bats can teach us about the evolution of human speech

What bats can teach us about the evolution of human speech

In a paper in the journal Science, a team led by Professor Michael Yartsev’s lab identified the part of the brain in Egyptian fruit bats that controls vocalizations and found that it contains very similar neural wiring to the part of the human brain that controls speech.

   Upcoming events

Integrating biomolecular techniques to explore the migration and artefacts of Upper Paleolithic humans in Europe (Elena I. Zavala)

This talk will take place in person at the ARF and on Zoom (you must have a Zoom account to attend). Register for online attendance here. - Reception to follow -   Abstract:  The Upper Paleolithic is linked with the spread of Homo sapiens throughout Europe, disappearance of Neanderthals, appearance [...]

Join this event to hear a UCB Chemistry PhD alum describe career paths in equity research for life science graduate students and postdocs, especially for those who have an interest in the stock market. [...]

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