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BME Senior Published in Nature’s Scientific Reports

Heather Stokes, a senior undergraduate research assistant with BME faculty Dr. Jason Franz in the Applied Biomechanics Laboratory, has been published in Nature’s Scientific Reports. By tightly couplin… Read more

BME Graduate Mehdi Hamouda Wins 2017 Whitaker Fellowship

Students graduating from our Department continue to garner major awards. Mehdi Hamouda, a 2016 graduate of the BME undergraduate program, has been awarded a 2017 Whitaker International Program Fellows… Read more

Science Cafe Features Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Engineering Lab

Every week, the NC Museum of Natural Sciences holds the Science Cafe, an event that showcases the state of science in today’s society. Dr. Helen Huang and Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Engineering Lab… Read more

Robin Queen Wins Kappa Delta Young Investigator Award

The Kappa Delta Sorority, along with the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation, have honored 2004 BME graduate Dr. Robin Queen with this year’s Young Investigator Award. The KD/OREF awards are… Read more

BME Students Take Home 2017 National Science Foundation Fellowships

This year’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowships have been announced, and we are pleased to announce that two BME students have been selected as recipients! Graduate student Kathryn Moore, al… Read more

Nancy Allbritton Honored as 2017 UNC Chapel Hill Inventor of the Year

On April 20, 2017, Department Head Dr. Nancy Allbritton will be honored as the 2017 Inventor of the Year at the Celebration of Inventorship at UNC Chapel Hill. Her academic research has resulted in te… Read more

Jicheng Yu Honored with Inaugural UNC Horizon Award

BME Graduate Student Jicheng Yu has been selected as a recipient of the inaugural Horizon Award given by the UNC Graduate School. The award recognizes outstanding graduate student research that holds… Read more

Naji Husseini Receives 2017 Gertrude Cox Award for Innovative Teaching

Dr. Naji Husseini has been chosen as one of three recipients of the 2016-2017 NC State Gertrude Cox Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching and Learning with Technology. Naji, a lecturer in BME si… Read more

BME Team Develops Paper Pump for Cost-Effective Microfluidic Diagnostics

BME personnel are no strangers to being published in various news outlets, something that Dr. Brian Cummins, former BME postdoctoral researcher, can attest to. He, along with all-star team Drs. Fran L… Read more

Divers Alert Network Grant Awarded to Virginie Papadopoulou

The Divers Alert Network (DAN) has selected BME postdoctoral researcher Dr. Virginie Papadopoulou as the 2017 recipient of the R.W. Bill Hamilton Memorial Dive Medicine Research Grant. The program was… Read more

BME Team Selected as Finalists for International Venture Competition

News from BME’s Senior Design studio continues to impress. Christopher Lynch, Erica Lenzen, Gabrielle Hochu, Hannah Kausche, and Wyatt Robinson have been selected as finalists for the 2017 Richards Ba… Read more