Congratulations to MCB undergraduates Carolyn Nguyen (Nuñez Lab), Karla Tapia (Hurley Lab), Shriprithi Vel Murugan (Hurley Lab), and Selina Wu (Hurley Lab) who were recently named Spring 2025 Ignite Scholars by the Bakar Fellows Program. The scholars will gain hands-on translational research experience, mentorship from Bakar Faculty and Innovation Fellows, and financial support to launch their careers in STEM fields.

Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine David Raulet and MCB graduate student Elle Andrews have both received 2025 Graduate Mentorship Awards from UC Berkeley's Graduate Assembly. Raulet was awarded the Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentor Award and Andrews the Outstanding Graduate Peer Mentor Award. These awards are in acknowledgement of an outstanding commitment to helping UC Berkeley graduate students to succeed academically, professionally, and personally. Learn more about the graduate mentorship awards and recipients here. 

April 01, 2025

Research by ESPM professor Christopher Schell and postdoctoral scholar Lauren Stanton could help improve human-wildlife interactions and inform new ways of thinking about urban environments.

Berkeley startup AsparaGlue, founded on science by Professor Phil Messersmith and postdoc Subhajit Pal, won an East Bay Innovation Award for their bioinspired surgical superglue.

Professor Aaron Streets has been named to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Streets was selected for “developing innovative technology to elucidate genome regulation with single-cell and molecule resolution, and for impactful leadership to diversify bioengineering.College membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering and…

Professors of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology Diana Bautista and David Bilder are among seven Berkeley faculty members elected to American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS fellows are recognized for their achievements across disciplines and have a distinguished lifetime honor within the scientific community. Read more about the 2024 AAAS fellows here. 

March 27, 2025

The College will host climate advocate and investor Tom Steyer for the Albright Lecture in Conservation on Wednesday, April 2. His talk is entitled “Climate Capitalism: A Way Forward in 2025.”

 

Bioengineering Chair Phillip Messersmith has been named to the 2024 class of fellows elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals. Messersmith was recognized for “distinguished contributions to the understanding of wet biological adhesion, and for…

March 27, 2025

During its second year, the Stone Center for Environmental Stewardship has advanced cutting-edge research on barriers to wildlife migration around Yellowstone National Park and launched new partnerships. 

March 26, 2025

A new Nature Energy study led by Rausser College researchers reveals how central banks in 47 countries differ in their response to climate risks.

March 25, 2025

The Albany property hosted one of the largest populations of overwintering monarch butterflies as numbers across California dropped to a near-record low.