Posts Tagged ‘awards’
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…
Read MoreHealy 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.
Read MoreBioE 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.
Read MoreHerr and Kumar Receive NSF CAREER Awards
February 14, 2011 Berkeley Bioengineering Assistant Professors Amy Herr and Sanjay Kumar have received 2011 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program awards. CAREER awards are given to young researchers in science and engineering who have also translated their work into significant educational activities.
Read MoreConolly and Schaffer reap more CIRM awards
February 9, 2011 Bioengineering Professors Steve Conolly and David Schaffer were awarded renewals for their Tools & Techniques grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Their grants were the only ones of this type from UC Berkeley renewed in this round.
Read MoreHerr named Lilly Young Investigator
January 4, 2011 Berkeley Bioengineering Assistant Professor Amy Herr has been chosen to receive a 2010 Eli Lilly and Company Young Investigator Award in Analytical Chemistry.
Read MoreAmy Herr NIH New Innovator
September 30, 2010 Bioengineering Assistant Professor Amy Herr has been awarded a 2010 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award!
Read MoreTwo BioE Alums are NIH New Innovators
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…
Read MoreBioE Flies High in NRC Rankings!
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.
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