July 9, 2013 – Ph.D. alumna Julia Owen (2011) and UCSF faculty member Pratik Mukherjee have published breakthrough research showing that Sensory Processing Disorders in children have a biological basis.
Read the Summer 2013 BioE Graduate Newsletter
June 28, 2013
The Summer 2013 newsletter of the UC Berkeley – UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering is out! Read up on our students faculty and alumni in our latest newsletter.
Alumni Profile: Karen Christman
June 26, 2013
An interview with Karen Christman (Ph.D. 2003), Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at UC San Diego, member of the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, and Co-founder of biotech company Ventrix, Inc.
Big BEAR – Steering students to graduate school success
June 26, 2013
At a time when debate rages about whether graduate school is smart choice—while some talk about tuition costs and others about job markets—Big BEAR at Berkeley is helping fellow students find their right choice. Ask Ph.D. student Eric Jabart for the most important factor for graduate school success, and he won’t tell you hard work, […]
LegoScope at Maker Faire
June 14, 2013
Congratulations to the LegoScope team, winners of the Educators Choice award at Maker Faire 2013! The LegoScope crew tested out the classic LegoScope, OpenScope and cheaper ComponentScope with regular slides as well as a number of live samples like zebrafish, C. elegans, fruit fly maggots, planaria worms, and sea anemones. They made contact with local teachers, […]
Congratulations Outstanding GSIs
May 29, 2013
May 20, 2013 - Congratulations to Anum Azam, Tim Downing, Zach Russ, and Augusto Tentori, 2012-2013 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructors at UC Berkeley. These GSIs were nominated by their instructor for excellent teaching and mentoring as GSIs in a bioengineering class. Congratulations!
Berke wins literary prize
April 22, 2013
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
April 22, 2013
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 13, 2013
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
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.
