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On May 30th, BME Lampe Professor Fran Ligler and BME Industrial Advisory Board member George Ligler spoke at the Agricultural University of Athens. Following her talk, Fran was inducted as an honorary… Read more
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Vinayak Subramanian, a graduate of the BME program, is turning heads at the UNC School of Medicine. Although he enjoyed working with the engineering side of medicine, Vinayak decided his talents were… Read more
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Dr. Matthew Fisher and a collaborative team including NC State and University of North Carolina scholars have been published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research. The article, “Orientation changes i… Read more
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Earlier this month, Dr. Fran Ligler attended the 2017 National Inventors Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Washington, D.C, where she was honored as one of this year’s inductees. The induction includ… Read more
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Dr. Zhen Gu’s drug delivery systems, specifically for diabetic care and cancer therapeutics, have been highly praised in the past few years. Now, Zhen and his lab have done it again: they have develop… Read more
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Each year, the De Luca Foundation awards the Delsys Prize to a researcher who has illustrated an innovative use of electromyography. This year, the Foundation has asked Dr. Helen Huang to become part… Read more
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NC State University has awarded the 2017 Alcoa Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award to Dr. Zhen Gu for his extraordinary achievements as a early-career investigator. Among these achieveme… Read more
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Dr. Fran Ligler has been re-elected to serve as a Councillor for the National Academy of Engineering Governing Council. The new appointment will run for three years, during which time Fran will contin… Read more
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Stephanie accepts her Award for Excellence Stephanie Teeter, a ten-year staff veteran of the Department, was honored yesterday with an Award for Excellence given by the College of Engineering at NC St… Read more
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The U.S. Department of State Office of Science and Technology Cooperation has selected Dr. Zhen Gu as a runner-up in the U.S. Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Science Prize for Innovation, Res… Read more
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The University of North Carolina’s Graduate School recently awarded BME graduate student Soha Bazyar with a 2017-2018 Dissertation Completion Fellowship. This fellowship program is designed to support… Read more