The University of North Carolina’s Graduate School recently awarded BME graduate student Soha Bazyar with a 2017-2018 Dissertation Completion Fellowship. This fellowship program is designed to support doctoral students in the final year of their dissertation by enabling awardees to … Read more
Congratulations to Victoria Cosenza and Supriya Sivadanam, BME undergraduates who were awarded with Top Presentation Awards at the 2017 NC State Undergraduate Research Symposium! Students were judged by College of Engineering and discipline representatives, who then selected the top presentations in … Read more
Feelin’ DNA, a UNC Chapel Hill based student group, is making waves with their approach to science education — literally. The group, one of whose founding members is BME undergraduate Joanna Cao, 3D prints scientific models that are specifically geared toward … Read more
BME graduate student Timothy Holder has been awarded a 2017 Richard Bland Fellowship by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School. This fellowship provides financial support that allows Timothy to undertake a professional internship during the summer, in pursuit of … Read more
Susan Bernacki, Andrea (Andi) Scheer, and Stephanie Teeter have all been nominated for the NC State College of Engineering Awards for Excellence. Each of these women consistently go above and beyond what is asked or expected of them, for which the Department … Read more
Heather Stokes, a senior undergraduate research assistant with BME faculty Dr. Jason Franz in the Applied Biomechanics Laboratory, has been published in Nature’s Scientific Reports. By tightly coupling sensory perturbations in an immersive virtual reality environment with quantitative motion capture and electromyography, her … Read more
Students graduating from our Department continue to garner major awards. Mehdi Hamouda, a 2016 graduate of the BME undergraduate program, has been awarded a 2017 Whitaker International Program Fellowship. This award aims to enrich the development of biomedical engineers by … Read more
Every week, the NC Museum of Natural Sciences holds the Science Cafe, an event that showcases the state of science in today’s society. Dr. Helen Huang and Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Engineering Lab members Andy Brandt and Stephanie Huang were on hand last week … Read more
The Kappa Delta Sorority, along with the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation, have honored 2004 BME graduate Dr. Robin Queen with this year’s Young Investigator Award. The KD/OREF awards are given to musculoskeletal researchers who focus on advancing patient treatment and care … Read more
This year’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowships have been announced, and we are pleased to announce that two BME students have been selected as recipients! Graduate student Kathryn Moore, along with former undergraduate Michaela Rikard, have both been awarded a 2017 … Read more
