Recent BME Graduate Alum Stephanie Cone was one of twenty Rising Stars selected from a pool of 160+ global applicants to present at the inaugural Engineering in Health virtual workshop hosted by Columbia University on December 18, 2020. Dr. Cone … Read more
BME Achievement Awards recognize the significant efforts made by faculty, staff, post-docs, and students in research, teaching and mentoring, as well as service to the department. This year the selection was particularly difficult, given the number of outstanding nominees who … Read more
BME Senior Research Technician Brian Velasco has won this year’s Dean’s Performance Award for his exceptional contributions in faculty support. Brian exceeds expectations in all areas of the lab’s administration. During COVID-19, he has been the only lab member to … Read more
BME PhD students Emily Ozpinar and Gabriela Torres have won the UNC Graduate School’s 2021 Horizon and Impact Awards respectively, among other 14 UNC-Chapel Hill graduate students and alumni. Made possible through the Graduate Education Advancement Board, Impact Awards recognize … Read more
BME alumni Conrad Dear, a second-year medical student at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), has developed a unique monitoring device for neonatal tracheostomy patients, the “TrachTracker.” This device stemmed from his senior design project as a … Read more
MUSE Biomedical, a team of BME seniors who are developing medical devices focused on preventing opioid addictions, won 1st place in the Early Stage Social category and also 1st place in “most buzzworthy” (as voted on by the audience) at this year’s … Read more
UNC Pharmacoengineering PhD Student Jordan Baer Joiner wins second place at the 2020 PharmAlliance Symposium for her talk “Low-intensity focused ultrasound produces immune response in pancreatic tumors,” which stems from her research at BME Dayton Lab. Back in January 2019, … Read more
BME alum Jamie Cone, who graduated from NC State with a concentration in biomaterials, is currently an Engineer II at BD Technologies & Innovation in Research Triangle Park. One of her main responsibilities involves using additive manufacturing (AM) equipment in … Read more
We are pleased to announce the 2020-2021 cohort of Abrams Scholars: this year 38 excellent BME undergraduates were selected from a very strong applicant pool to receive a mentored research fellowship funded by the NC State College of Engineering Research … Read more
This Fall semester seven BME students were inducted into Alpha of North Carolina Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa: Justin David Boyd, Jennifer Sue Cochand, Callum James Funk, Shureed Deepro Qazi, Ananya Tandri, Bryson Wicker, and Jia Chun Xie. Phi Beta … Read more
