June 21, 2011 The CellScope, a portable cellphone-based microphone from Berkeley BioE Professor Dan Fletcher’s class and laboratory, has been making more big news lately. Most recently the CellScope has been featured in the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle.
BioE News
Terry Johnson collects more teaching awards
May 17, 2011 Bioengineering Lecturer Terry Johnson has been recognized with the Spring 2011 Outstanding Instructor Award from the Bioengineering Honor Society. He was also awarded the 2011 Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award and named an Eminent Engineer by the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society.
Alum named to White House OSTP
May 2011 Heather Bowerman, a graduate of UC Berkeley Bioengineering (B.S. ’05), has been appointed by the White House as an Associate in the Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP).
Li Lab awarded CIRM grant
May 4, 2011 UC Berkeley Bioengineering Associate Professor Song Li was one of nineteen University of California scientists receiving grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine for stem cell research.
BioEs win big in Big Ideas
May 3, 2011 Bioengineering students won big in this year’s Big Ideas @ Berkeley competition. UC Berkeley’s annual “Big Ideas” prize competition inspires innovative and high-impact student projects aimed at solving the world’s most pressing problems. Both teams sharing the first place prize in the Social Entrepreneurship category include Bioengineering students, as well as the […]
Synthetic Biology Institute launches
April 25, 2011 An alliance of top researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has formed the UC Berkeley Synthetic Biology Institute (SBI), advancing efforts to engineer cells and biological systems in ways that promise to transform technology in health and medicine, energy, the environment, new materials, and a host of other critical arenas.
Healy wins Clemson Award
April 15, 2011 Bioengineering and Materials Science & Engineering Professor Kevin Healy was awarded the 2011 Clemson Award for Basic Research from the Society for Biomaterials.
BioE gets NIH grant for capstone design
March 30, 2011 The Department of Bioengineering has been awarded a 5-year grant by the National Institutes of Health to support our senior Bioengineering design course.
Arkin and Schaffer look at Cellular Networking
March 18, 2011 Bioengineering Professors Adam Arkin and David Schaffer are the authors of an essay in the journal Cellwhich describes in detail key technologies and insights that are advancing systems biology research.