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On Super Bowl Sunday this year, millions of Americans tuned in to watch both the game and the infamous commercials–but few expected for one of those ads to tout the importance of women in STEM fields… Read more
The one-year Academic Career Leadership Academy in Medicine (ACCLAIM) program has two new alumni: BME faculty Drs. Caterina Gallippi and Shawn Gomez. ACCLAIM is a UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine pr… Read more
BME faculty Dr. Zhen Gu has recently been awarded a 2016 Sloan Research Fellowship, an award that honors early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising s… Read more
BME faculty Greg Sawicki and PhD candidate Rich Nuckols recently attended the 1st annual WearACon meeting held by the Wearable Robotics Association in Phoenix, Arizona, where they were able to illustr… Read more
The Royal Society of Chemistry journal Analyst recently published a themed issue edited by BME faculty Dr. Steven Soper. The issue focuses on Innovative Tools for Cancer Screening, Detection, and Diag… Read more
Each year, the Naval Research Laboratory awards an Edison Award to four patents that have illustrated the potential of significantly benefitting the people of the United States. We are proud to announ… Read more
Amalia Lee (nee Osborne), a former BME undergraduate at NC State, has been featured in a UNC Health Care publication called “Why I Do So Much.” The article outlines Amalia’s interest in the biomedical… Read more
Our very own Rekha Balasubramanyam, Administrative Manager for BME, celebrated 15 years of employment with NC State University last month at the 2015 Service Awards Breakfast. This event is set up to… Read more
The Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering is excited to announce Dr. Cheri Simpson as the founding Director of Departmental Initiatives. Cheri will work across UNC and NC State, with a physical r… Read more
BME Head Dr. Nancy Allbritton has been selected as the 2016 recipient of the Award in Chemical Instrumentation by the American Chemical Society’s Division of Analytical Chemistry. This incredible hono… Read more
BME faculty member Dr. Roger Narayan is serving as Meeting Chair for the 2016 Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society (MRS). Roger is acting as primary spokesperson for the meeting and, along… Read more
Former BME graduate student Jin Di has been selected to receive a 2016 UNC Distinguished Dissertation Award, which recognizes the scholarly contributions of UNC-Chapel Hill doctoral students in their… Read more