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Faculty and students from BME recently participated in the 2018 National Biomechanics Day. With support from the Rehabilitation Engineering Core and the College of Engineering, Jacque Cole at NC State… Read more
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George Ligler comes to the Joint Department most recently from being the 20-year proprietor of his consulting firm GTL Associates. Dr. Ligler via GTL Associates provided consulting in telecommunicati… Read more
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George Ligler comes to the Joint Department most recently from being the 20-year proprietor of his consulting firm GTL Associates. Dr. Ligler via GTL Associates provided consulting in telecommunicati… Read more
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Oak City Medical, a BME senior design team, has been awarded a scholarship from Innovate Carolina! The team aims to develop an affordable at-home device for early detection of foot ulcers in diabetic… Read more
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Watchdog Medical, a startup founded by BME students, was selected to represent the University of North Carolina at the 2018 ACC InVenture Competition. The company was born out of a senior design group… Read more
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Oak City Medical, a BME senior design team, has been awarded a scholarship from Innovate Carolina! The team aims to develop an affordable at-home device for early detection of foot ulcers in diabetic… Read more
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Watchdog Medical, a startup founded by BME students, was selected to represent the University of North Carolina at the 2018 ACC InVenture Competition. The company was born out of a senior design group… Read more
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BME graduate student Ashlyn Young was selected to receive the Division of Polymer Chemistry’s Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Award. All awardees presented their research at an ACS President’s… Read more
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BME graduate student Ashlyn Young was selected to receive the Division of Polymer Chemistry’s Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Award. All awardees presented their research at an ACS President’s… Read more
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Helping Hands 3-D prints prosthetic hands for children (image: Preston Linn) When BME undergraduate Jeff Powell started the Helping Hands project in 2015, he was excited to help provide free prostheti… Read more
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BME graduate student Kristina Rivera was selected to be one of the 12 Keynote Speakers at the World Biosensors Congress in June. The selections were based on evaluations of over 1,000 abstracts, each… Read more
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Technology & Innovation features Dr. Fran Ligler in this month’s National Academy of Inventors Fellow profile. In it, Dr. Ligler expounds upon her exciting new work in microfluidics and tissue-on-… Read more