Bioengineering News
September 30, 2010 Two Bioengineering Ph.D. alumni have received NIH Director’s New Innovator awards for 2010!Dino DiCarlo, PhD 2006, and Michelle Khine, PhD 2005, have both received this five-year, $1.5 million grant. The New Innovator Award is the largest and most prestigious grant awarded to junior investigators by the NIH, designed to enable recipients to…
September 29, 2010 The UC Berkeley – UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering ranked near the very top of the nation’s doctoral programs in Bioengineering, according to a detailed survey by the National Research Council.
September 21, 2010 Bioengineering Professor Dan Fletcher has been named a Tech Awards Laureates for 2010 by The Tech museum of Science and Technology in San Jose, CA.
September 20, 2010 The animators behind the famous Wallace & Gromit movies has created the world’s smallest stop-motion animation film using CellScope technology pioneered by Berkeley Bioengineering Professor Dan Fletcher.
August 26, 2010 Optical technology developed in Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee’s laboratory will be an important component of a breakthrough in new plans grey water disinfection for sustainable buildings.
August 26, 2010 Optical technology developed in Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee’s laboratory will be an important component of a breakthrough in new plans grey water disinfection for sustainable buildings.
June 2010 A group of engineering undergrads, including many BioE students, have formed a busy and successful group of mentors teaching science and engineering to local K-12 students.
June 2010 Professor Emeritus of Bioengineering Boris Rubinsky is working to bring power to remote or impoverished parts of the world, using the humble potato.
June 2010 Congratulations to Berkeley Bioengineering Assistant Professor Sanjay Kumar, who has been selected by the National Academy of Engineering to participate in the U.S. Frontiers of Engineering program.
June 2010 Research on biomaterials by Bioengineering faculty Kevin Healy, Sanjay Kumar and David Schaffer is featured in the Spring 2010 issue of the Berkeley Science Review.
May 21, 2010 Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
May 17, 2010 In a New York Times article today, Intel founder Andrew Grove talks about his gift to UC Berkeley/UCSF for the new joint Master’s Degree program in Bioengineering.
May 10, 2010 December graduate Tim Wang has been named recipient of the 2010 Departmental Citation in Bioengineering.
May 10, 2010 Bioengineering Professor Adam Arkin has been named the new Director of the Physical Biosciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
May 10, 2010 Bioengineering Assistant Professor Mohammad Mofrad was profiled in this month’s issue of Innovations from the UC Berkeley College of Engineering.
May 4, 2010 Bushra Samad will be receiving her B.S. in Bioengineering from Berkeley this month, but she’s not leaving. Bushra will be staying on as a Ph.D. student in the Bioengineering Graduate Group – and her twin daughters will be entering their second year as Berkeley undergrads. Her daughter Tahoura is also a Bioengineering…
May 1, 2010 Graduating BioE senior Tu Tran has been awarded one of the 2010 Chancellor’s Awards for Public Service.
May 1, 2010 Berkeley Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee has been awarded a major research grant from the Human Frontier Science Program.
April 21, 2010 Bioengineering Lecturer Terry Johnson has been named the recipient of the 2010 Golden Apple teaching award.
April 20, 2010 Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee has been awarded the 2010 Ho-Am Prize in Engineering
March 2010 BioE undergraduate alumnus Amit Jain was named a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow for 2010.
February 18, 2010 Jay Keasling, UC Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering, was elected this week to the National Academy of Engineering.
February 16, 2010 Bioengineering Assistant Professor Amy Herr has been named a 2010 Sloan Research Fellow.
February 2, 2010 Berkeley Bioengineering Assistant Professor Mohammad Mofrad has received a 2010 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award. CAREER awards are given to young researchers in science and engineering who have also translated their work into significant education activities.
February 2010 Bioengineer Associate Professor Dan Fletcher works to understand, on a cellular level, the physiology of movement within the human body. Check out his research, and it’s relation to the Olympics and our own movement, in this National Science Foundation video.