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In March 2015 President Obama hosted the White House Science Fair, featuring outstanding young scholars from around the country, and intended to celebrate their achievements in STEM. Michaela Rikard,… Read more
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An article about BME faculty member Dr. Greg Sawicki’s unpowered exoskeleton device was published in Nature in April of this year. NC State’s news article about Dr. Sawicki features an exciting video… Read more
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Cortical Metrics, a spin out company based on research conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is making headlines for a radical new technology that it has developed for assessin… Read more
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Please join us in giving a heartfelt congratulations to Rekha for having received this year’s College of Engineering’s Awards for Excellence at NC State. At the University level, an Award for Excellen… Read more
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First year BME undergraduate student Elliot Krause has made a prosthetic hand for an 11-year-old Raleigh girl as part of the Helping Hand project. Elliot used the 3D printer that is available to UNC u… Read more
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NC Space Grants: Lindsay and Joseph Two students in Dr. Ted Bateman’s Lab, Joseph Welsh, an undergraduate student, and Lindsay Sullivan, a Ph.D. student, were awarded a NASA/NC Space Grant Fellowship…. Read more
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BME graduate student Rachel Nordberg has been selected to receive a NASA/NC Space Grant Graduate Research Fellowship. This fellowship program provides add-on support for graduate students to supplemen… Read more
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Triangle Business Journal and accounting firm BDO have announced the third annual class of Life Sciences Awards winners. BME spinout company Novocor Medical Systems has been included in the most recen… Read more
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BME doctoral student Jin Di has won a 2015 Graduate Education Advancement Board Impact Award for her work with diabetes research. She has developed a system that painlessly releases insulin by applyin… Read more
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Lindsay Sullivan, a Ph.D. Student in Dr. Ted Bateman’s Lab, was awarded a Whitaker International Fellowship to spend a year at the University of Cambridge in the UK for the 2015-2016 Academic Year. Li… Read more
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Dr. Nancy Allbritton, Professor and Chair of the Joint BME Department, has been inducted as a Fellow of the American Association of Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Chicago. AAAS elevates members to t… Read more
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Dennis Pacardo, a BME Postdoctoral Researcher at NC State, has been selected to attend the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany as a Young Scientist. This year’s Meeting will be the f… Read more