Congratulations to Outstanding GSI Award Winners for 2022-23 from BioE courses: Eric Markley (BioE PhD Student), Baiyu Shi (BioE/EECS Undergrad Student) and Milad Shirani (MechE PhD Student)! The UC Berkeley Outstanding GSI Awards are given to the best GSIs of the year, nominated by the course instructor.

March 22, 2023

In his state of the college address, Dean David Ackerly introduced the newly-released Rausser College Strategic Plan and discussed priorities for the years ahead.

March 21, 2023

Baldocchi received an honorary doctorate for his contributions to biometeorology and leadership of the FLUXNET Network.

Using AI, Ting Xu and her colleagues designed polymer mixtures that mimic the natural proteins in biological fluids. The technique could improve the design of biocompatible materials.

March 16, 2023

Meredith Fowlie and David Anthoff will help build the framework needed to establish the Office, which will analyze the potential impact of legislation on greenhouse gas emissions.

Professor Phillip Messersmith has been named to the 2023 class of Fellows of the Materials Research Society. The Fellows program recognizes outstanding contributions to the field, including research, leadership, and service that have advanced the mission of the materials community world-wide. It is intended to be a lifetime recognition of distinction in the field.  Messersmith […]

March 15, 2023

Dobbin will advise California water regulators on expanding access to clean drinking water for all communities.

Professor of Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Susan Marqusee, was named a 2023 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Fellow. The honorific program recognizes scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the field through their research, teaching, mentoring or other forms of service. Read more...

Dr. Juan Liu, an assistant museum curator and assistant adjunct professor in the Department of Integrative Biology gives a behind the scenes tour of the UC Museum of Paleontology. Click here to see the photo slideshow.

 

Thank you to our wonderful community for helping us reach our fundraising goals during Big Give! Your commitment, generosity, and participation yesterday are inspiring and make a real difference in our students’ and postdocs' lives. 

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Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology, Samantha Lewis, received the R.R. Bensley Award in Cell Biology from the American Association of Anatomists (AAA). This award recognizes early-career investigators who have made important contributions to biomedical science through their research. Read more...

Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Yvette Fisher, received the C.J. Herrick Award in Neuroanatomy from the American Association of Anatomists (AAA). This award recognizes early-career investigators who have made important contributions to biomedical science through their research. Read more...

A new paper urges policy makers to explicitly include rivers, lakes and wetlands in plans set aside 30% of land and sea area for conservation by 2030

March 07, 2023

As the 30x30 conservation initiative gains momentum around the world, Rausser College researchers call for a focus on rivers, lakes, and wetlands.

The trove of tens of thousands of specimens, ranging from shells to dinosaur fossils, holds answers to a long-ago past

The Department of Integrative Biology has a Big Give match challenge. If we receive 20 gifts to our Graduate Student Support Fund during Big Give, Rod and Helenita Spencer will contribute an additional $3,000! Your generosity will provide much needed relief to our graduate students through opportunities to travel, work in labs, and conduct field research. Every gift makes a difference.

 

Congratulations Professor Aaron Streets, presented the 2023 Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and Equity for outstanding contributions in advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice. Streets is an award-winning bioengineer whose wide-ranging efforts to diversify engineering and the biosciences have been deeply transformative. He is the DIrector of the BioEngineering Scholars Program as well as a co-founder of the Berkeley Stanford UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium.

Andrea Gomez, an assistant professor of molecular and cell biology, is studying how the compounds found in psychedelic mushrooms influence brain activity

The study, publishing today in the journal Science Advances, presents the latest results from UC Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology's Grinnell Resurvey Project, an effort to revisit and document birds and small mammals at sites first surveyed a century ago by UC Berkeley professor Joseph Grinnell.

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