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 […]
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BioE student receives Chancellor’s Public Service Award
May 1, 2010 Graduating BioE senior Tu Tran has been awarded one of the 2010 Chancellor’s Awards for Public Service.
Bioengineers can dance!
November 2009 Two bioengineering undergraduates, Nickesh Viswanathan and Anwesh Thakur, made it all the way to the quarterfinals of NBC-TV’s America’s Got Talent this summer, with their Berkeley Bollywood dance group, Ishaara.
Keasling and BioE student win Chancellor’s Public Service Awards
May 2, 2009 A Berkeley Bioengineering student and faculty member have won Chancellor’s Public Service Awards this year, high honors for civic engagement sponsored by Cal Corps Public Service Center, the Office of Government and Community Relations, and University Events.
Venkatesh wins Goldwater Scholarship
March 30, 2009 Bioengineering junior Madhvi Venkatesh has been awarded a 2009 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. She is one of only two UC Berkeley winners for this nationally competitive scholarship this year.
BioE Wins the Poster Session Again
November 20, 2008 Bioengineering undergrads Rina Parmeshwar and Michelle Su-Yu Tsai took two of the top prizes at the Science and Engineering Poster Session last month. Held in the Hearst Mining Memorial Building lobby, the Science and Engineering Poster Session offers the opportunity for students in engineering or the sciences at Berkeley to present their […]
Clotho and Clonebots: Berkeley iGEM teams garner awards
November 12, 2008 Two Berkeley teams headed to the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM) in Boston this year, along with over 100 other participants from twenty one countries. Both mentored by BioE Assistant Professor Chris Anderson, the tools team took the Best Software Tool Award, while the “Wet Team” was one of 6 finalists […]