Chang-Lin Tien Graduate Fellowship in the Environmental Sciences
The Chang-Lin Tien Graduate Fellowship in the Environmental Sciences provides fellowships for graduate students studying issues related to the environment at UC Berkeley. Students are nominated to receive the award on the basis of their high level of academic distinction and exceptional promise.
Candidates are drawn from a wide range of disciplines and departments on the UC Berkeley campus, including but not limited to, Molecular and Cell Biology, Integrative Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Bio-Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Computational Science, Geology, Agriculture and Resource Economics, Energy and Resources Group, School of Public Health and the College of Natural Resources. Recommendation of Chang-Lin Tien Fellow candidates will be made by a Chang-Lin Tien Fellows Program Committee under the direction of the Graduate Division at UC Berkeley.
The fellowship is named in honor of the late Dr. Chang-Lin Tien, one of the most popular and respected leaders in American higher education and an engineering scholar of international renown. Dr. Tien spent nearly his entire professional career at UC Berkeley. He served as the campus's seventh chancellor from 1990-1997 and the first Asian American to head a major research university in the United States.
The Chang-Lin Tien Graduate Fellowships in the Environmental Sciences are generously funded through the Philomathia Foundation of Hong Kong.
The Philomathia Foundation is a private charity envisaged by the Chung brothers, seeking innovative means to promote the betterment of humankind through commitment to education and research. The Foundation makes it its mission to promote human harmony and well-being through the exploration of new ideas and new solutions in all aspects of human knowledge. The Foundation commits itself to the pursuit of its core values: the love of learning, the preservation of our environment, the respect of our fellow humans, and the enthusiasm in all our endeavors. In addition to the fellowships at UC Berkeley, the Foundation has also established scholarships in Hong Kong, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
2009-10 - Chang-Lin Tien Fellowship Recipients
Scholar name: Steve Bellan
Department: Environmental Sciences, Policy Management
Department Website: http://espm.berkeley.edu/gradcentral/index.php
Degree Objective: Ph.D
Research Group Website: http://cnr.berkeley.edu/getzlab/index.html
Scholar name: Christopher Ellison
Department: Plant and Microbial Biology
Department Website: http://plantbio.berkeley.edu/
Degree Objective: Ph.D
Research Group Website: http://pmb.berkeley.edu/~taylor/index.html
Scholar Website: http://pmb.berkeley.edu/~taylor/people/ce.html
Scholar name: Lars Plate
Department: Chemistry and MCB
Department Website: http://mcb.berkeley.edu/
Degree Objective: Ph.D
Research Group Website: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/mmargrp/
Scholar Website: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/mmargrp/people/lp/plate.html
Scholar name: Chodon Sass
Department: Plant and Microbial Biology
Department Website: http://plantbio.berkeley.edu/
Degree Objective: Ph.D
Research Group Website: http://pmb.berkeley.edu/~specht/index.html
Scholar Website: http://pmb.berkeley.edu/~specht/chodon.html
Scholar name: David Soergel
Department: Biophysics, with designated emphasis in Genomic and Computational Biology
Department Website: http://biophysics.berkeley.edu/
Degree Objective: Ph.D
Research Group Website: http://compbio.berkeley.edu/
Scholar Website: http://biophysics.berkeley.edu/students.php?ID=22
Scholar name: Eric Steen
Department: Bioengineering
Department Website: http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/
Degree Objective: Ph.D
Research Group Website: http://keaslinglab.lbl.gov/wiki/
Scholar Website: http://keaslinglab.lbl.gov/wiki/index.php/Eric_Steen
Scholar Name: Michael Wasserman
Department: Environmental Science, Policy & Management
Department Website: http://espm.berkeley.edu/
Degree Objective: Ph.D
Research Group Website: http://nature.berkeley.edu/miltonlab/
Scholar Website: http://nature.berkeley.edu/miltonlab/students.html
Scholar name: Kelly Wrighton
Department: Microbiology
Department Website: http://pmb.berkeley.edu/
Degree Objective: Ph.D.
Research Group Website: http://pmb.berkeley.edu/~coates/
Scholar Website: http://pmb.berkeley.edu/~coates/people/graduates.htm
