Congratulations to this year’s 13 Abrams Scholars selected from a very strong applicant pool of 35 BME undergraduates interested in guided laboratory research to enhance their undergraduate education.
The 13 awardees are:
Mark Bartel
Brinnae Bent
Mehdi Hamouda
Veronica Lavelle
Austin Murray
Pranav Nishadham
Jeremy Nortey
Kathryn Ozgun
Hope Piercy
Sri Pinnamaraju
Heather Stokes
Kendall Wiggins
Grace Wright
Abrams Scholars are outstanding BME undergraduate students who are selected to receive a stipend to conduct hands-on laboratory research projects. These projects are conceived and designed by the students with the guidance of a faculty mentor. The Abrams Scholar program honors C. Frank Abrams, Jr., a BME and BAE emeritus faculty member. Dr. Abrams led the development of the first courses in Biomedical Engineering at NC State and was instrumental in: the founding of NC State’s BME Department; the creation of the joint UNC-CH/NC State graduate program; and ultimately the launch of the UNC-CH/NC State Joint BME Department. He was the Joint Department’s first senior design instructor as well as the first Director of Graduate Studies.
Congratulations to these 13 outstanding BME Abrams Scholars!