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Faculty honors and awards

Berkeley Engineering faculty receive the most prestigious awards and honors bestowed by academic and professional societies, foundations and other civic organizations. Among these are nearly six dozen active and emeriti faculty who hold membership in the National Academy of Engineering.

EECS professors selected as ACM fellows

Three professors from the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences – Alistair Sinclair, Ion Stoica and Katherine Yelick – have been named fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery for contributions to computing that have fundamentally advanced technology

Arsenic water filter recognized with international prize

A team led by Ashok Gadgil, Berkeley Engineering professor and head of LBNL’s environmental energy technologies division, has received the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water. The prize recognizes his team’s advances in developing an effective and economical way to treat arsenic contamination in groundwater.

Bioengineers get NIH award for on-chip models of human heart and liver

Bioengineering professors Kevin Healy (pictured) and Luke Lee and collaborators have been awarded a two-year, $1.7 million boost to develop on-chip models of living human heart and liver tissue from the NIH. The grant is part of the Tissue Chip for Drug Screening program, an initiative to help predict the safety of drugs more quickly and cost-effectively, and thereby speed the development of effective therapeutics.

American Bureau of Shipping endows ocean engineering chair

Professor Ronald W. Yeung has received the inaugural appointment to a new chair endowed by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) in ocean engineering, which is within the department of mechanical engineering. “We believe that encouraging students in engineering is crucial to the future of the industry,” says ABS President and CEO Christopher J. Wiernicki. “We are convinced the caliber of people in leadership roles at universities like UC Berkeley is one of the keys to ensuring these institutions continue to produce the quality engineers who will develop technologies that will determine the future of the industry.”

Bioengineering professor Amy Herr receives 2012 Young Innovator Award from Analytical Chemistry

Dr. Amy E. Herr of UC Berkeley is the recipient of the Analytical Chemistry 2012 Young Innovator Award, recognizing the contributions of an individual who has demonstrated exceptional technical advancement and innovation in the field of micro- or nanofluidics in his or her early career. Dr. Herr’s research interests include use of scale-dependent phenomena to develop new tools for quantifying biomolecules in complex biological fluids.