Graduate Student in ME Professor Mohammad Mofrad’s Lab Wins First Place in the 2016 Image Contest of the Biophysical Society Meeting

ME Graduate student Zeinab Jahed, a member of ME Professor Mohammad R. K. Mofrad’s lab, has won the first place prize in the 2016 Image Contest of the Biophysical Society Meeting. The image, titled “Bacterial Networking,” shows a scanning electron microscopy of Staphylococcus Aureus bacterial cells forming networks on top of poly-dimethyl-siloxane PDMS micro-posts. Congratulations,…

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Members in ME Professor Hayden Taylor’s Group Win Berkeley Cleantech University Prize

Members in ME Professor Hayden Taylor’s group, Liam Berryman and Lance Brockway, have won the&nbsp“Berkeley Cleantech University Prize CUP“” – a competition put on by the&nbspBerkeley Energy and Climate Institute BECI&nbspand&nbspBerkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative BERC, and sponsored by the&nbspDepartment of Energy DOE. After four months of mentorship and training from the competition’s&nbspdedicated mentors and…

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ME Professor Alice Agogino’s BEST Lab Featured on the Discovery Channel

The BEST Lab‘s tensegrity robot research was recently featured on the Discovery Channel’s nightly science magazine, the Daily Planet. The feature contrasted their sleek and faster Rev3 of the Berkeley Tensegrity Robot with Rev1. Both Rev1 and Rev2 use elastic cords and linear actuators to shape shift the tensegrity robot into punctuated rolling motion. Rev3…

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‘ME Professor Xiang Zhang’s PhD Student, Zi Jing Wong, Wins Jean Bennett Memorial Student Travel Grant at Frontiers in Optics Conference’

Congratulations to ME PhD student Zi Jing Wong on winning the&nbspJean Bennett Memorial Student Travel Grant&nbspat the 2015 Frontiers in Optics conference. The grant was “”established in 2008, in memory of Jean M. Bennett, a highly decorated research physicist who was recognized for her contributions to the studies of optical surfaces and served as OSA’s…

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ME Professor Mohammad R. K. Mofrad and ME Grad Student Mohaddeseh Peyro Reveal New Clues to How the Gatekeeper for the Cell Nucleus Works

ME Professor Mohammad R. K. Mofrad and ME graduate student Mohaddeseh Peyro, along with two other researchers, have released their findings today in a paper titled “Evolutionarily Conserved Sequence Features Regulate the Formation of the FG Network at the Center of the Nuclear Pore Complex.” The paper uncovers “new clues to how a molecular machine…

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ME Students Drew McPherson and Kevin Haninger Team Up to Launch Design Group to Help Tackle Difficulties Associated with Disabilities

ME senior Drew McPherson and PhD student Kevin Haninger have teamed up with&nbspcognitive science student Francisco Peralta to launch EnableTech. EnableTech is a student organization that “”aims at providing assistive technologies to people with disabilities in the Berkeley community. These assistive technologies will be investigated, designed, and, if needed, prototyped by students interested in real…

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‘ME PhD Student Zi Jing Wong Wins Best Student Paper Award at Metamaterials 2015, the 2015 IEEE Phototonics Conference & the CLEO Pacific Rim 2015’

ME Professor&nbspXiang Zhang’s&nbspPhD student&nbspZi Jing Wong, has won the Best Student Paper Award at the&nbspMetamaterials 2015 – Ninth International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics. The Congress provides “”a unique topical forum to share the latest results of the metamaterials research in Europe and worldwide and&nbspbring together the engineering, physics, and material…

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ME PhD Student Zi Jing Wong Wins Best Paper Award at SPIE Conference

ME Professor Xiang Zhang’s PhD student Zi Jing Wong, has won the Best Student Paper award at the 2015 SPIE Active Photonic Materials Conference. Wong’s award winning paper, “Single Mode Parity-Time Laser,” discusses: “The concept of parity-time PT symmetry exploits the interplay between the material loss and gain to attain novel optical phenomena such as…

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ME Students in the Lin Lab Featured on ABC7 News

Students in ME&nbspProfessor&nbspLiwei Lin’s Lin Lab were featured this week on ABC7 KGO, talking about their work on the “”Smart Cap.”” The 3-D printed cap&nbspuses electronics to sense spoiled food, for instance, in that carton of milk that’s been sitting in your refrigerator for too long… or is that just us?! &nbsp To view the…

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ME Professor Alice Agogino & Students Win Best Paper Awards at ICED15

Congratulations to ME Professor&nbspAlice Agogino, and her students, on winning two&nbspReviewer’s Favourite “”Best Paper”” Awards&nbspat this year’s&nbspInternational Conference on Engineering Design! Professor Agogino presented a paper on&nbspEuiyoung Kim’s doctoral research, “Design Roadmapping: Challenges and Opportunities” by Euiyoung Kim, Shun Yao, and Agogino. The paper won the first Reviewers’ Favourite Award, which are the&nbsptop 10% of&nbspreviewed…

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Students win First Place in Big Ideas contest

ME students Julia Kramer PhD student, Abhimanyu Ray MEng student, and Karan Patel MEng student, along with Betsy McCormick MBA student, Haas School of Business won&nbspFirst Place&nbspin the Global Health category in the Big Ideas contest for their proposal,&nbspVisualize: Saving Lives with Training for Cervical Cancer Screening. The proposal was partially developed through a capstone…

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Zi Jing Wong awarded MRS Gold Graduate Student Award

ME graduate student Zi Jing Wong was recently awarded the MRS Gold Graduate Student Award at the 2015 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco. The MRS Graduate Student Awards are intended to honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high order of excellence and distinction.

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