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BME faculty member Dr. Ashley Brown is the recipient of a 2016 NCSU Faculty Research and Professional Development (FRPD) Grant. The grant program was established to assist faculty in initiating resear… Read more
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A recent article by Frank Vinluan of the Xconomy team features the UNC/NC State Joint Department and the impact we have on the local biomedical engineering scene. Several BME faculty members are profi… Read more
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BME faculty Jason Franz and collaborators from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Virginia have been awarded a five-year NIH R01 award to study the role of age-related changes i… Read more
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BME faculty member Dr. Richard Goldberg has recently been awarded a UNC Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) Presentation Award. This award is predicated on the growing number of faculty members intere… Read more
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NC State News recently published an article about BME senior Will Pfitzner, praising his work as a Shelton Scholar. The article, Shelton Scholar Reflects on Impact of Private Support, expounds on Will… Read more
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One of BME’s own faculty, Dr. Paul Dayton, took home the 2016 Biomedical Wellness Pioneer Award from this year’s Meeting of the Society of Optics and Photonics (SPIE) conference titled “Sensing and An… Read more
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Biomedical Engineering is proud to announce that three of our undergraduates have been selected as “Top Presenters” at this year’s Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at NC State University. Out o… Read more
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BME Faculty Jason Franz has been awarded a grant from UNC’s University Research Council (URC) for his project titled “The role of propulsive capacity reserves in age-related mobility impairment.” The… Read more
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BME would like to congratulate our 2016 Joint Department Award Winners, who will be recognized at the Joint BME Symposium on April 26th. Although all of our faculty and staff do great work, this year’… Read more
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University of North Carolina’s Graduate School recently awarded Kent Gordon, a BME graduate student, a 2016-2017 Dissertation Completion Fellowship. This fellowship program is designed to support doct… Read more
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Faculty and students from BME recently participated in a new science outreach event at NC State and UNC as part of the first ever National Biomechanics Day. With support from the Rehabilitation Engine… Read more
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BME faculty member Dr. Anne Taylor, based at UNC-Chapel Hill, has recently been awarded a major National Institute of Health (NIH) Small Business Technology Transfer grant for the second phase of a re… Read more