The Awards Committee of the UCSF/UCB Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering was very pleased to present the following awards at the annual retreat this year:

Outstanding Publication Award:
Gang Liu, Luke Lee's lab: "Quantized Plasmon Quenching Dips Nanospectroscopy via Plasmon Resonance Energy Transfer",
accepted for publication in Nature Methods.

Faculty Advising Award: Prof. Sanjay Kumar

Most Outstanding Poster 1st Place ($250.00): Octavian Florescu, Bernhard Boser's lab: "Fully Integrated ImmunoSensor"

Outstanding Poster 2nd Place ($100.00):
Shared between:
Eunice Lee, Luke Lee's lab: "Remote Optical Switch for Localized Control of Gene Regulation";
Jacob Pollock, Kevin Healy's lab: "Differential Gene Expression During Bone Marrow Regeneration: A Novel Thermoresponsive Synthetic Tissue Graft"

Outstanding Poster 3rd Place ($100.00):
Shared between:
Craig Hashi, Song Li's lab: "Anti-Thrombogenic Properties of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Nanofibrous Vascular Grafts";
Reza Naima, John Canny's lab: "The Berkeley Tricorder Project: Pervasive Health Monitoring"

Conference T-Shirt Design Competition ($50): Doug Brownfield and Robin Held for their design "BudDune"


Congratulations to all of the winners!! Please contact SarahJane (sarahjane.taylor@radiology.ucsf.edu ) if you were not present at the conference to receive your certificate and/or award.


FALL 2008 LIST OF AWARDS

In fall 2008, we will be accepting nominations from students and faculty for the following awards:
Student Teaching Award
Student Career Award
Dissertation Award
Faculty Advising Award
Faculty Service Award
Faculty GSI Mentor Award
Faculty Teaching Award
Outstanding Publication Award
Peer Mentor Award
Student Service Award
BERF Award
 
Award descriptions and nominations procedures are posted on the graduate group website:  http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/currentgrads/awards.php
 
In the coming year, please take note of students and faculty who deserve recognition and nominate them next fall for one of the 2008 awards!