BME Teaching Assistant Professor Naji Husseini recently received two Outstanding Teaching Awards. This year NC State University honored more than 30 faculty for their commitment to educational excellence. As recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award, Dr. Naji Husseini becomes member … Read more

This year’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships have been announced, and we are pleased to report that seven BME students have been selected as recipients! The recipients were undergraduate student Taylor Abele and graduate students Michaela Copp; Zachary … Read more

BME health science engineering undergraduate student Olivia Burston has been volunteering at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Be a Maker Space (BeAM) to assemble face shields against COVID-19. These face shields are essential equipment that protect the facial areas (eyes, nose, mouth) of health … Read more

BME Research Associate and Operations Manager Dr. Susan Bernacki recently received an Environmental Health and Safety Award by NCSU’s Occupational Health & Safety Council. Susan received one of their six department level safety awards for her exceptional and consistent attention to … Read more

BME graduate students Alison Schaefer and Dina Yamaleyeva received E(I) Lab’s top prize at their recent annual awards ceremony.  Their team, LiRA, was announced as the winner of E(I) Lab’s fifth annual awards ceremony for solving challenges in healthcare. Dina … Read more

Postdoctoral research associate Becky Krupenevich has been awarded a three-year National Research Service Award (NRSA F32) from the National Institute on Aging for her proposal titled “The Role of Foot Structure and Function on Walking Mechanics and Energetics in Aging.” … Read more

BME undergraduate student Naila Segule, who is also completing Interdisciplinary Studies in Global Health Communication and Development, is among the nine 2020 Payne Fellows. The Payne Fellowship Award is extremely competitive, with 526 national applicants this year. Candidates are selected … Read more

BME researchers at NC State have developed a fibrin that mimics the body’s natural clotting process to treat chronic wounds. Chronic wounds, such as diabetic ulcers or deep-tissue burns, heal slowly or not at all and are thus prone to … Read more

BME Teaching Assistant Professor Devin Hubbard, who is also Lead Design Engineer of the FastTraCS team at NC Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute, is the host of a new podcast GuideWire, focusing on the behind-the-scenes of medical device innovation. A … Read more

BME Assistant Professor Jason Franz, together with Dr. Brian Selgrade and Diane Meyer of UNC, and Dr. Jacob Sosnoff of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have used virtual reality experiments to show how a potentially portable and inexpensive test … Read more