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Home sweet BioE home
CHECK IT OUT: BioE students crowd around the new nameplate for the Bioengineering offices in Stanley Hall. The students got a sneak peek of the building, still under construction, on November 21, testing out lecture hall chairs, viewing labs and oohing and aahing at the grand atrium. The BioE Department is slated to move from Evans Hall to their new quarters sometime next year. Pictured here, from left, are BioE sophomore Jason Tan, senior Jay Su, junior Angela Ha, senior Mike Kurylo, sophomore Vivian Tang and seniors Tawan Udtamadilok, Min Choi and Alex Chen.
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What will you accomplish by the time you’re 34?
Meet 34-year-old Tejal Desai (Ph.D.’98 BioE), and this is her list: She
earned a Ph.D. in bioengineering, and as a Ph.D. student, developed a micro-chip
(now in production by a private company) that can be implanted in the pancreas
of a patient to facilitate insulin production and control diabetes. She’s
published over 90 technical papers and was named one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant
10 Scientists” and one of MIT Technology Review’s “100 Top
Young Innovators.” She received a National Science Foundation CAREER
Award and a National Academy of Sciences Frontiers in Engineering Award. She
holds professorships at UCSF in physiology, bioengineering and, oh yes, biophysics
and is director of her own 12-person research lab. Last, but certainly not
least, she is mom to two children under three. Oh, and she’s the College’s
newest recipient of its Outstanding Young Leader award. [FULL STORY]
Though they look nothing alike, Davis Hall on campus and
the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco have one thing in common: They
are both built with shear walls. Shear walls are walls that have been
strengthened to withstand shear stress, which results from forces exerted
on a building during an earthquake or in high winds. Recently, Berkeley
researchers conducted dramatic tests on a new kind of shear wall that
promises to perform better and cost less for builders and owners.
The new wall is made of corrugated metal plates screwed to metal studs. It
was conceived by local structural engineering firm, Tipping, Mar & Associates,
which is working with CEE associate professor Bozidar Stojadinovic, graduate
students Nat Kinsky, Daniel Tran and Luke Ruggeri and senior Letran Bui to
test the design. The researchers have conducted 30 tests already in the Berkeley
Structures Laboratory in Davis Hall, with good results. [FULL STORY]
Undergraduate researchers got out of the lab and into the
spotlight during the fall 2006 Undergraduate Poster Session, “Unlocking
the Mysteries of Tomorrow through the Research of Today.” Presenters
explained their projects to a steady stream of visitors in the Betty and
Gordon Moore Lobby at Hearst Memorial Mining Building.
Judges bestowed the session’s top honors on three women engineers (below),
who each took home a gift card to Zachary’s Pizza. Read about all the
poster session participants and their research projects at www.coe.berkeley.edu/current_students/uro/index.html. [FULL STORY]
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