April 2005 Bioengineering Professor Dr. Boris Rubinsky contributed research and background on cryogenics for the April 19 episode of the NOVA Science NOW tv show.
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Keasling heads Physical Biosciences
April 2005 Bioengineering professor Jay Keasling has been appointed the new Director of the Physical Biosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
Shankar Sastry named CITRIS director
April 5, 2005 – S. Shankar Sastry, Professor of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences has been named the new director of the UC Berkeley-based Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS).
BioE Undergrad Researchers Make the News
March 16, 2005 Three undergraduate researchers in Professor Dan Fletcher’s lab – Menzies Chen, Laleh Jalilian and Marcio von Mulen – have been noticed by the media for their research on a needle-less microjet injector.
Distinguished Professorship to Lee
March 2005 Congratulations to Associate Professor Luke Lee! Dr. Lee was awarded the Lester John and Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished Professorship in Bioengineering this month. The Professorship was given to our department five years ago by Jack Lloyd, Chair of the Bioengineering Department’s Industrial Advisory Board. The chair is awarded to a junior faculty member […]
Congratulations Hedi Razavi
March 2005 The Department of Bioengineering congratulates BioE senior Hedi Razavi, selected to receive the 2005 Departmental Citation Award in Bioengineering.
Professor Adam Arkin featured in Lab Notes
February 2005 Smart search technology being developed by Bioengineering Professor Adam Arkin and research partner Professor Marti Hearst is featured in the February 2005 issue of Lab Notes, a publication of the College of Engineering. Hearst and Arkin are working on a software project called BioText, designed to help researchers search online medical journal articles […]
Chancellor’s Professorships to Keaveny and Pruitt
February 2005 Tony Keaveny and Lisa Pruitt, professors of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering, have both been awarded the Chancellor’s Professorship. This is a special multi-year award created to fund research and scholarship, and to recognize “distinguished achievement of the highest level in research, teaching and service”. Congratulations!
de Juan wins Hahn Medal
Bioengineering postdoctoral researcher Elena de Juan Pardo was recently honored with the Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding scientific achievement.