Posts Tagged ‘undergrads’
SurgiSun team presents at Bay Area Global Health Challenge
The capstone team SurgiSun made it to the semifinals of the Bay Area Global Health Innovation Challenge, competing against graduate and postdoc-level innovation teams. Amy Lyden and Neha Kumar presented “SurgiSun: A Surgical Light for the Developing World” at the showcase held at UC Berkeley on April 8th.
Read MoreCapstone team competing at Rice 360
The ForSight capstone team of Amanda Haack, Zane Liu, Ian Lin, and Ashu Shrestha will be competing this week at the Rice 360° Sixth Annual Undergraduate Global Health Technologies Design Competition.
Good Luck ForSight!
Two BioE undergrads awarded Whitaker Fellowships
Congratulations to BioE students Amy Lyden and Amanda Haack, recipients of 2016 Whitaker International Fellowships! The Whitaker International Fellows and Scholars Program sends biomedical engineering students for one year anywhere outside the U. S. or Canada to conduct research, hold internships, or complete coursework.
Read More2016 Biodesign Immersion Experience interns selected
Eight bioengineering students have been selected to participate in the 2016 Biodesign Immersion Experience. Created by Professor Amy Herr and funded by grant from the NIH, the BIE is an 8-week summer program that prepares bioengineers to connect engineering innovation and unmet clinical needs. Students have either recently taken or will be taking BioE 192, the senior…
Read MoreStudent team headed to round 2 of the Diabetes Design Challenge
Berkeley’s D! team is designing a smartphone app to help type 2 diabetes patients make healthy choices when dining out. The team, made up of students Brian Goodness and Owen Hsiao from the School of Information, MBA students Shahida Abdul Rashid and Howard O, and bioengineer Zach Zeleznick, won first place in the Oct. 24 Hack2Health competition at Berkeley and secured a spot in the upcoming ninth annual Berkeley-Haas Healthcare Conference organized by the student-led Haas Healthcare Association.
Read MoreBioE ranks in top 10 nationwide
Once again Berkeley BioE has been ranked 9th in the nation among undergraduate bioengineering programs by U.S. News & World Report!
UC Berkeley remains the #1 public university and the #3 overall undergraduate engineering program.
Go Bears!
Congratulations 2015 Graduates!
We’re proud of you! Watch the 2015 Commencement ceremonies online.
Read MoreWhitaker Fellowship for Cheung
Congratulations to graduating senior Shin Yu Celia Cheung, recipient of a 2015 Whitaker International Fellowship! Cheung will begin research this Fall at Imperial College London, under the mentorship of Dr. David Klug.
Congratulations also to incoming PhD student, Alisha Geldert, also a 2015 Whitaker Fellow.
Read MoreCapstone team takes second at Stanford Design Challenge
BioE senior capstone design team of Hannah Adelsberg, Celia Cheung, Eric Katz, and Suzanne Chou took second place at the annual Stanford Design Challenge for their invention, the HandleBar.
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