Bioengineering News
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…
March 2005 The Department of Bioengineering congratulates BioE senior Hedi Razavi, selected to receive the 2005 Departmental Citation Award in Bioengineering.
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…
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!
Bioengineering postdoctoral researcher Elena de Juan Pardo was recently honored with the Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding scientific achievement.
January 27, 2005 Faculty, staff, students, donors and dignitaries gathered on January 27th to celebrate the “topping off” of the Stanley Biosciences and Bioengineering Facility, future home of the Bioengineering Department. “Topping off” is a tradition in the construction trades, commemorating the successful completion of the 11-story steel superstructure of the building.
January 2005 Professor Jay Keasling is featured in an article in the New York Times for his work on developing a more affordable cure for malaria, research that is being supported by a recent $43 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Read more in NY Times (free registration required at NYTimes.com)
January 2005 Bioengineering professor Kimmen Sjölander is featured in a four-page interview in the latest issue of Forefront magazine, a publication of the College of Engineering. The article, “Kimmen Sjölander: Computational Artist Extraordinaire”, explores Dr. Sjölander’s stories of life, work and creativity. Read more in Forefront
January 2005 The Department of Bioengineering would like to extend a warm welcome to three new faculty members, Steve Conolly, Irina Conboy, and Mohammad Mofrad. Professors Conolly and Conboy came to Berkeley in the fall, while Professor Mofrad is just arriving on campus now.
December 2004 The Center for Tissue Bioengineering at the Richmond Field Station received a visit from 53 high school girls and this December. Hosted by Professor Karen King, the young women participated in a tour, research demonstrations and a lively question and answer session at the Richmond Field Station CTBe facility.
December 2004 Research done by Dr. Jay Keasling, Professor of Chemical Engineering and soon to be part of the department of Bioengineering, has pioneered a method of producing the most effective anti-malarial drug at low cost for the developing world.
November 2004 Bioengineering professor Song Li was featured in the November 17, 2004 issue of the World Journal, the largest Chinese newspaper in North America. Those who read mandarin can read the full story in pdf.
November 2004 Bioengineering undergraduates Laleh Jalilian and Marcio von Muhlen won First Place in the Fall 2004 Undergraduate Engineering and Science Poster Session. Their poster, “A Piezoelectric Microjet for Drug Delivery”, described the research they have been performing in Professor Dan Fletcher’s lab. Seventeen other students participated in the poster session, held November 17th in…
November 2004 Bioengineering professor Kevin Healy participated in a press conference Monday announcing UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau’s appointment to the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee. The committee is charged with overseeing the implementation of California’s new $3 billion stem cell research effort.
September 2004 Bioengineering professor Kimmen Sjölander was among five UC Berkeley researchers to receive the 2003 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the nation’s highest award for scientists at the early stages of their careers. Read more in the UC Berkeley NewsCenter
May 2004 The Department of Bioengineering congratulates Prof. Lisa Pruitt for receiving the 2003 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM).
May 2004 Whether it is listening to his many interesting stories, or hearing about his rowing experiences, taking a class taught by Dr. Budinger, (BioE 100 – Ethics in Science and Engineering) is said to be one of the most intellectually-stimulating experiences the Department of Bioengineering and perhaps for that matter Cal has to offer.…
May 2004 The Department of Bioengineering congratulates the following students for getting involved and wanting to make a difference in the College of Engineering community! From a very competitive application pool, these FOUR bioengineering students were selected to serve on the faculty run committees.
March 2004 The Department of Bioengineering congratulates Ryan Doan for being selected as this year’s Departmental Citation Award winner. Ryan was nominated by Prof. Tony Keaveny.
February 2004 The Department of Bioengineering congratulates Tyler Hillman – BioE senior – for having his work published in Genome Biology titled: “An unappreciated role for RNA surveillance” by R. Tyler Hillman, Richard E. Green, and Steven E. Brenner.
January 2004 Prof. Dick Karp, Ph.D., University Professor of Computer Science, Bioengineering and Mathematics recently received the 2004 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science in recognition for his remarkable contributions to the understanding of computational complexity.
August 2003 It’s with great sadness that we say goodbye to one of our bioengineering family member Professor Werner Goldsmith. Goldsmith, Professor of the Graduate School-Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Professor of the Graduate School-Department of Bioengineering and recently Professor Emeritus Appointment in Bioengineering died Saturday, August 23, 2003 of complications from leukemia.
April 2003 The Berkeley-Stanford Innovators’ Challenge is a design contest in which engineering and science students from Berkeley and Stanford present their research to prominent industry leaders, famous technologists, and venture capitalists to compete for $25,000 in prize money. This year, we have 14 teams from Berkeley in the finals — most are Ph.D. projects, with…
April 2003 Last week, Guidant Corporation, a leader in the design and development of cardiovascular medical products, presented the Berkeley Bioengineering Department with a $70,000 check to support the Guidant Summer Research Program.
March 2003 The Department of Bioengineering congratulates Nathaniel Huebsch for being selected as this years Departmental Citation Award Winner. Nathaniel was nominated by Prof. Kevin Healy to receive this award.