Berke wins literary prize

April 19, 2013 -  Congratulations to Allison Berke, a winner of the Elizabeth Mills Crothers Prize in Literary Composition at UC Berkeley.  The Elizabeth Mills Crothers Prizes in Literary Composition are awarded for excellence of composition in poetry, story writing, drama, or another field of literary composition.

Congratulations 2013 NSF Fellows

Congratulations to our SEVEN new NSF fellows in bioengineering! The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program has awarded prestigious fellowships to seven Berkeley-UCSF graduate students:  Daniel Hensley, Kesshi Jordan, Isaac Joseph, Preeya Khanna, Harrison Liu, Ryan Orendorff, and Julea Vlassakis.

Connie Cheung leads 3rd place team in Idea to IPO

April 12, 2013 -  Bioengineering Ph.D. student Connie Cheung was the team leader for the third-place team in this year’s UCSF Idea to IPO course.

Daniel Cohen wins the 2013 Cubicciotti Award

March 27, 2013 -  BioE graduate student Daniel Cohen has been awarded the 2013 Daniel Cubicciotti Award by the San Francisco section of the Electrochemical Society.

BioE grad students in startup Foundry

Several bioengineering graduate students are among the xix student teams selected this February to work with experts at the Foundry@CITRIS to push their innovative technology ideas to market.  

Alum Tsou profiled in Daily Cal

January 22, 2013 – Very recent BioE alumna An-Chi Tsou was profiled in the Daily Cal about her new job at the California Science and Technology Policy Fellowship.

LegoScope on ABC news

January 18, 2013 -  The LegoScope – a simple microscope based upon the CellScope developed in Fletcher Lab and built with Legos – was featured on ABC7 news on Thursday, January 17.

Kelly Karns named Kauffman Fellow

January 14, 2013 – Bioengineering Ph.D. student Kelly Karns has been awarded a coveted Kauffman Fellowship, one of only thirty offered each year.

Etemadi wins Dow Student Challenge

November 15, 2012 – BioE graduate student Mozzi Etemadi, along post-doc Kayvan Keshari, has won the Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award.  Davis Li, a former BioE undergrad, was also involved in the project.

Jalbert’s research featured in Berkeley Innovations

November 6, 2012 – Bioengineering Ph.D. student Llewellyn “Trey” Jalbert talks about his experience with brain cancer – both as an imaging researcher and as a patient – in the November issue of Innovations from Berkeley Engineering.