In March 2015 President Obama hosted the White House Science Fair, featuring outstanding young scholars from around the country, and intended to celebrate their achievements in STEM. Michaela Rikard, a BME undergraduate student at NC State, was one of the … Read more
An article about BME faculty member Dr. Greg Sawicki’s unpowered exoskeleton device was published in Nature in April of this year. NC State’s news article about Dr. Sawicki features an exciting video of him explaining the device. Check it out … Read more
Cortical Metrics, a spin out company based on research conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is making headlines for a radical new technology that it has developed for assessing brain health, and in particular, concussion. The … Read more
Please join us in giving a heartfelt congratulations to Rekha for having received this year’s College of Engineering’s Awards for Excellence at NC State. At the University level, an Award for Excellence is the most prestigious honor given to non-faculty … Read more
First year BME undergraduate student Elliot Krause has made a prosthetic hand for an 11-year-old Raleigh girl as part of the Helping Hand project. Elliot used the 3D printer that is available to UNC undergraduate Biomedical Engineering students to create … Read more
Two students in Dr. Ted Bateman’s Lab, Joseph Welsh, an undergraduate student, and Lindsay Sullivan, a Ph.D. student, were awarded a NASA/NC Space Grant Fellowship. Joseph will be working with Dr. Anthony Lau, an NSBRI Postdoctoral Fellow, to investigate bone … Read more
BME graduate student Rachel Nordberg has been selected to receive a NASA/NC Space Grant Graduate Research Fellowship. This fellowship program provides add-on support for graduate students to supplement and enhance basic research support. The objective of this research fellowship opportunity … Read more
Triangle Business Journal and accounting firm BDO have announced the third annual class of Life Sciences Awards winners. BME spinout company Novocor Medical Systems has been included in the most recent group of awardees. The Life Sciences awards recognize individuals … Read more
BME doctoral student Jin Di has won a 2015 Graduate Education Advancement Board Impact Award for her work with diabetes research. She has developed a system that painlessly releases insulin by applying focused ultrasound waves to a single injection of … Read more
Lindsay Sullivan, a Ph.D. Student in Dr. Ted Bateman’s Lab, was awarded a Whitaker International Fellowship to spend a year at the University of Cambridge in the UK for the 2015-2016 Academic Year. Lindsay will be working with Dr. Michelle … Read more
