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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 more than six dozen active and emeriti faculty who hold membership in the National Academy of Engineering.

BioE’s Herr and Li are new AIMBE Fellows

Bioengineering professors Amy Herr and Song Li have been named members of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows. The college is composed of the top two percent of medical and biological engineers in the country.

NAE adds three Berkeley faculty to its ranks

Three Berkeley Engineering faculty – Carlos Daganzo (CEE), J. Karl Hedrick (ME) and Jack Moehle (CEE) – are among 67 new members and 11 foreign associates elected Thursday to the National Academy of Engineering.

Kumar and Murthy get Keck grant for cancer cell research

Bioengineering professors Sanjay Kumar and Niren Murthy have been granted a $500,000 research award from the W.M. Keck Foundation for their research, which aims to develop an assay platform that will allow researchers to routinely perform single-cell proteomic experiments.

Two Berkeley engineers win presidential early-career awards

Four young Berkeley professors – including Benjamin Recht of electrical engineering and computer science and Junqiao Wu of materials science and engineering – were among 102 researchers named Monday by President Obama as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.

David Culler to receive the Okawa Prize, 2013

EECS Department Chair and Director of the CITRIS Energy Initiative David Culler has been selected as a recipient of the 2013 Okawa Prize, which is awarded annually by the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications.