Congratulations Robert Chen, a 2013-2014 Haas Scholar! Each year, twenty Haas Scholars are selected from all disciplines and departments across the University on the basis of the merit and originality of their project proposals.
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Alumna Tsai new Whitaker grantee
April 2, 2013 – Congratulations to recent BioE alumna Michelle Tsai! Michelle will be spending a year in Ireland working on biomedical devices as a 2013-2014 Whitaker Fellow.
Terry Johnson gets Distinguished Teaching Award
BioE Lecturer Terry Johnson has been awarded a 2013 Distinguished Teaching Award!
Fletcher 2013 AIMBE Fellow
February 20, 2013 – Congratulations to Professor Dan Fletcher, new member of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows!
Sanjay Kumar named Stem Cells Young Investigator
December 3, 2012 – Bioengineering Professor Sanjay Kumar has been named the 2012 STEM CELLS Young Investigator Award winner by AlphaMed Press.
BioE student named Rhodes Scholar!
November 19, 2012 – Daniel Price, a senior majoring in BioE, EECS and Physics, has been named one of the country’s 32 new Rhodes Scholars. Daniel will head to Oxford for study in 2013.
Keasling wins Heinz Award
UC Berkeley professor of bioengineering and chemical & biomolecular engineering has been awarded one of four $250,000 Heinz Awards for 2012, for his work in engineering a synthetic form of the malaria drug artemisinin. Read more at the San Francisco Chronicle
Amy Herr new Bakar Fellow
Bioengineering Associate Professor Amy Herr has been named to the inaugural cohort of Bakar Fellows at UC Berkeley.
Alum wins Emerging Researcher’s National Conference poster
Recent UC Berkeley Bioengineering Alumna Pamela Tiet won first place in Biomedical Engineering for her Technology and Engineering Poster Presentation at the Emerging Researcher’s National Conference in Atlanta, GA.