Congratulations to Nicole Repina, Kayla Wolf, Albert You, and Xinyi Zhou, 2017-2018 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!
Ayad named Schlumberger Faculty for the Future
BioE PhD student Nadia Ayad has been awarded a 2018-19 Faculty for the Future fellowship. The Schlumberger Foundation selected the most recent Faculty for the Future women in STEM from emerging and developing countries engaged in post-graduate studies at various universities around the world.
Congratulations NSF Fellows!
Prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships have been awarded to four continuing and three incoming Berkeley-UCSF graduate students!
You do Belong in Science – a podcast event by BioE PhD students
You do belong in science – even if it doesn’t always feel that way. The Double Shelix podcast, hosted by UC Berkeley Bioengineering PhD Candidates Sally Winkler and Kayla Wolf, launches on April 3 with a series of 7 episodes on the the theme of belonging in STEM. Every Tuesday, they’ll bring conversations with experts in science, education, and inclusion in conversation about how we can create STEM communities where all feel belonging.
Outstanding student poster at Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology (MMB)
BioE PhD student Alison Su, in Professor Amy Herr’s lab, won the Outstanding Student Poster award at this year’s International Conference on Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology.
BioE Ph.D. student learns how to tug at federal purse strings
BioE PhD student Andrew Bremer attended the Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering (CASE) workshop, held by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington DC. CASE educates STEM students on science policy matters – including in-depth learning about the mechanisms of federal research spending and how to engage with policymakers as scientists.
BioE sweeps UCSF Grad Slam
PhD student Yiqi Cao took first place and the People’s Choice award at the 2018 UCSF Grad Slam competition, which challenges students to give a compelling presentation of their research in 3 minutes or less. Cao will now go on to compete in the UC system-wide Grad Slam event. Student Inez Raharjo took 2nd place, landing BioE in all of the top spots. Go BioE!
Four BioEs are UCSF Grad Slam finalists
BioE PhD students Katie Cabral, Yiqi Cao, Jennifer Hu, and Inez Raharjo are all finalists in the 2018 UCSF Grad Slam competition! The contest challenges PhD students to present a compelling presentation of their dissertation research in three minutes or less, using language that non-specialists will understand. The winner from each campus will go on to compete in the UC system-wide Grad Slam contest in May. The 10 student finalists will present their research in a live contest on Thursday, March 22, at 4 p.m. in Byers Auditorium at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus.
Carey wins 2018 Diagnostic World Early Innovator Award
PhD student Thomas Carey was selected as the winner of the Diagnostics World Early Innovator Awards program at the 2018 Molecular Medicine Tri Conference in San Francisco. Carey and his colleagues are developing a low-cost microfluidic-based platform to detect the presence of biomarkers present in virtually every fluid.
Conolly Lab collects prizes at World Molecular Imaging Conference
Students from Professor Steven Conolly’s lab took First Place in 4 of the top 12 categories of poster awards against stiff international competition at the World Molecular Imaging Conference in Philadelphia this month.
Tabla wins Fast Co. Innovation by Design Award
The low-cost, accurate device that uses sound waves to diagnose pneumonia, created by BioE PhD student Adam Rao with Berkeley MEng graduates Chen Bao and Jorge Ruiz, is the winner of the student category of Fast Company‘s 2017 Innovation by Design Awards.
From Homelessness to a Doctoral Fellowship at Berkeley
PhD student Zachery Robinson had a long road to become a Chancellor’s Fellow in bioengineering.
BioE sweeps top three at AAPM
BioE PhD student Daniel Hensley of Professor Steven Conolly’s lab took first prize at the 2017 American Association of Physicists in Medicine Young Investigators Symposium. Jessie Lee, student of Professors Chris Diederich and John Kurhanewicz, took second place, and Zhi Wei Tay of Conolly Lab took third.
Su named NSF GROW Fellow
PhD student Elaine Su has received an NSF Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide Fellowship, which will enable her to conduct research in Ireland.
Vlassakis named 2017 SLAS fellow
Congratulations to Julea Vlassakis, the 2017 recipient of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening Graduate Education Fellowship Grant.
2017 Departmental Fellows
Congratulations to our 2017 recipients of departmental fellowships! We are pleased to announce our new Brodie Scholar, Thomas Carey, Craven Scholar, Shakked Halperin, Lloyd Scholars, Xinyi Zhou and Cameron Nemeth, and Lewis Scholar, Andrew Sczesnak.
2017 Outstanding GSIs
Congratulations to Daniel Hensley, George Lin, Monica Lin, and Hector Neira, 2016-2017 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!
Carey awarded Kang Family Graduate Fellowship
PhD student Thomas Carey has been granted a Kang Family Graduate Fellowship for Biotechnology for 2017-18.
Olivia Scheideler named P.E.O Scholar
PhD student Olivia Scheideler has been awarded a prestigious Scholar award from the P.E.O. International philanthropic organization.
Congratulations new NSF Fellows!
Prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships have been awarded to nine continuing and two incoming Berkeley-UCSF graduate students!
Altemose represents Berkeley in Regeneron Prize
PhD student Nicholas Altemose has been selected as one of only two Berkeley graduate students to represent the campus in competition for the 2017 Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation. The Prize is a national competition honoring excellence in Biomedical Science conducted by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
Ramasubramanian wins at BioX-ADATE Tissue Engineering Symposium
PhD student Anusuya Ramasubramanian’s team presented a winning oral talk and poster at the BioX-ADATE Tissue Engineering Symposium at Stanford this September. Congratulations!
2017 Siebel Scholars named
Matthew Bakalar, Benjamin Epstein, Elena Kassianidou, Sylvia Natividad-Diaz, and Kevin Yamauchi have been named the 2017 UC Berkeley Siebel Scholars in Bioengineering by the Siebel Foundation.
Four Bioengineers receive UCSF Merit Fellowships
Congratulations to four of our bioengineering students who have been awarded UCSF merit fellowships for 2016-17. Jeremy Bancroft Brown and Jean Kim have received the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholarship, a competitive scholarship that rewards excellence in research. Jinny Sun has received a Genentech Fellowship, a competitive predoctoral fellowship to support eligible students in their biomedical research, […]