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BME faculty and students at UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State have been heavily involved in finding solutions to a wide variety of pandemic issues: from developing face masks, to vaccines and ventilators…. Read more

BME Administrative Support Associate Darlene West is one of the College of Engineering’s two SHRA winners of the 2020 Awards for Excellence. While there will be no public recognition by the College an… Read more

In Spring 2020, Dr. Frances Ligler, BME Lampe Distinguished Professor, was featured among four of Furman’s greatest alumni—Herman Lay, of the famous brand of potato chips; Thomas Goldsmith, who filed… Read more

Researchers in UNC/NC State BME and NC State Electrical and Computer Engineering have recently developed new software that can be integrated with existing hardware to enable people using robotic prost… Read more

Biomedical and Health Sciences Engineering Student Anthony M. Kyu has been awarded this year’s Astronaut Scholarship. It is awarded to students in their junior and senior year of college studying scie… Read more

BME teaching assistant professor Devin Hubbard, who is also a lead design engineer at NC TraCS Institute, began addressing the shortage in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) soon after the first case… Read more

Meryem Ok, BME graduate student in the UNC MD-PhD program, recently received a four-year National Research Service Award (NRSA F30) from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Dis… Read more

Recent BME graduate A.J. Rechenmacher is among this year’s UNC Top Ten Scholar-Athletes. This honor recognizes five male and five female seniors who have maintained the highest cumulative grade point… Read more

Since the coronavirus outbreak began, BME department’s interim chair and William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor Paul Dayton has been coordinating BME teams to collaborate and solve COVID-19-rela… Read more

BME Teaching Assistant Professors Naji Husseini and Ross Petrella have recently received a Teaching Faculty Project Support Award from the NC State College of Engineering. The College’s Engineering Fa… Read more

To address shortages of pediatric Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) due to the COVID-19 pandemic, BME students from both UNC and NC State have crafted more than 1,000 pediatric facemasks for UNC Hea… Read more

Ryan Facer, BME alumnus 2018, is currently a product development engineer for AccuMED Corp (a division of Lear Corporation), which specializes in the manufacturing of medical products. Facer’s team wa… Read more