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Bakar Fellow Jie Yao Is Improving the World With Opto-Electronics
Bakar Fellow Jie Yao, who is also a 2022 Heising-Simons Fellow, describes his mission to improve society and the technology he's using to help him.
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Bakar Fellow Angjoo Kanazawa Named 2023 Sloan Research Fellow
Six UC Berkeley faculty were selected to join the 2023 cohort of Sloan Research Fellows, the largest of any public university. Among them is Bakar Fellow Angjoo Kanazawa.
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Faculty Fellow Neil Tsutsui Elected as Lifetime Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Eleven UC Berkeley faculty members were elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Among them is Bakar Faculty Fellow Neil Tsutsui.
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Kenichi Soga named to the National Academy of Engineering
Bakar Fellow Kenichi Soga has received one of the highest professional honors accorded an American engineer.
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BioAmp Diagnostics Wins NSF Small Business Innovation Research Program Award
BioAmp Diagnostics, which was born from research in the Murphy lab, has won an NSF SBIR Phase II award that will lead to life-saving diagnostic technology.
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Amy Herr Joins Editorial Board for Lab on a Chip
Amy Herr, former Faculty Director of the Bakar Fellows Program, has become an editorial board member for the journal dedicated to devices and applications at the micro- and nanoscale.
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Intropic Materials Selected as Biomimicry Ray of Hope Prize Finalist
Intropic Materials, a Bakar Fellow founded company, has been selected as a finalist for their use of bio-inspired design to tackle the issue of plastic pollution.
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