Quick facts about the Bioengineering Department
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Founded:
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1998 |
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Number of faculty:
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19 core faculty, 12 joint, 1 adjunct, 2 emeritus, 2 lecturers
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Includes faculty from:
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7 Berkeley departments, plus UC San Francisco and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
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Department chair:
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Professor Matthew Tirrell
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Undergraduate students:
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419
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Graduate students:
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148 |
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Department ranking, Graduate:
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12th, US News and World Report
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| Department ranking, Undergraduate: |
14th, US News and World Report
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Bioengineering Faculty Honors:
Past President, Society for Molecular Imaging
Gordon Bell Prize for Extreme Performance in Supercomputing
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Award
Time Magazine Future Innovator
American Academy of Microbiology Fellows
Technology Review TR35 Award
TechReview 100 most innovative Young Scientists
Council of the National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Science
National Institute of Medicine
American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering
American Physical Society
American Society of Mechanical Engineer
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Biomedical Engineering Society
American College of Physicians
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Rhodes Scholar
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring
National Medal of Science
Harvey Prize
Centennial Meda
Turing Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science
Discover Magazine Scientist of the Year
National Science Foundation CAREER awards
NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award
National Institute of Health FIRST and Career Award
NIH Director's New Innovator Award
Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging
Whitaker Foundation Awards
Chancellor’s Professorships
Miller Research Professors
Schlumberger Fellow
Alexander von Humboldt Society Fellow
Beckman Young Investigator Award
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