In December 2019 six BME undergraduates were awarded seven NC State College of Engineering scholarships. Junior Courtney Odea received the Richard Greenwood Thomas Engineering Scholarship. Recipients of this scholarship must maintain minimum 3.0 GPA, and are preferred to demonstrate need … Read more
BME Assistant Professor Ashley Brown has been elected to serve on the Council for the American Society for Matrix Biology (ASMB). The mission of the ASMB is to promote basic, translational, and clinical research on the extracellular matrix; and the … Read more
Dr. George Ligler, recently appointed Dean’s Eminent Professor of the Practice in Biomedical Engineering, is quickly filling his advisory dance card with four recent demanding committee appointments by the NC State Chancellor’s office and the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). … Read more
Two BME undergraduates, Emily Fomin and Sarah Kubik, spent the summer after their sophomore year doing research at the Institute of Photonics and Electronics in the Czech Academy of Science in Prague. Here is what they reported. Emily Fomin: Dobrý … Read more
Biomedical engineering department takes $25,000 grand prize for pediatric brain surgery project The 2018 NCEES Engineering Education Award $25,000 grand prize went to the North Carolina State University UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering for their submission, Enabling Pediatric Brain … Read more
Recent stories published by WRAL TechWire and NC State featured the research accomplishments of several BME faculty and students. The article highlights the findings of a team led by Dr. Ashley Brown, Assistant Professor in the department. The group developed … Read more
Drs. Lizhi Pan and Dustin Crouch, current and former postdoctoral researchers in Dr. Helen Huang’s CLEAR Core, respectively, have co-authored a paper that describes new technology that can be used to better control hand prosthetics. The technology is based on … Read more
National Biomechanics Day, sponsored by the American Society of Biomechanics, seeks to foster the development of biomechanics as a component in high school curricula across the country. Faculty and students from BME participated in the 2018 National Biomechanics Day welcoming … Read more
A recent article in Technology and Innovation by BME’s Dr. Fran Ligler and former NC State Assistant Vice Chancellor Dr. Kelly Sexton highlights the gender gap in technology commercialization in the academic community. According to the study, women inventors only … Read more
Dr. George Ligler, one of BME’s newest faculty members (and long-time Industry Advisory Board member), has recently briefed the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the House Aviation subcommittee on assessing risks of unmanned aircraft systems in … Read more
