May 2007
Bioengineering teams won first, second or third place in FIVE out of the ten 2007 UC Berkeley Bears Breaking Boundaries contests.The Big Ideas @ Berkeley initiative and the Berkeley student government (ASUC) teamed up with a variety of research centers and institutes on the campus to organize a series of white paper competitions that will encouraged student teams to propose the next generation of research, education, and service activities on the UC Berkeley campus. Called The Bears Breaking Boundaries Contest, undergraduate and graduate teams submitted their ideas and competed for research funding in ten separate competitions.
Seven BioE teams placed in five of the competitions, winning over $32,000 for their research projects. The winners and their projects are listed below.
Congratulations everyone!!
Bio-Inspired Innovation Contest:
1st place – Biologically Inspired Microfluidic Silk Spinning by BioE grad student David Breslauer
2nd place – Sticking like a Mussel by BioE grad student Eddie Wang
IT for Society Contest:
First place tie – Telemicroscopy for Disease Diagnosis, BioE grad student David Breslauer and BioE undergrads Robi Maamari, Alison Lynch, Gene Cho and Katrina Lin
Neglected Diseases Contest:
2nd place – Microneedle-based Vaccine Delivery by BioE grad students Zack Lee, Karl Saldanha, and Samuel Tia and Fatima Nawaz
3rd place – SeroScreen: A Point-of-Care Diagnostic Device for the Developing World by BioE grad students J. Tanner Nevill, Nicholas Toriello, and Anat Caspi, and Suzanne Welty
Science, Technology, and Engineering Policy (STEP) Contest:
$500, 3rd Place: Policy Initiatives for Safe Realization of Synthetic Biology’s Power by BioE grad students Eric Steen and Jeffrey Dietrich
Synthetic Biology Contest:
2nd place, $500 – Environmentally Self-Regulating Bacterial Network (ESRBN) by BioE undergrad David Tulga