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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BrailleBuzz, a Braille training device for children, is coming soon to a market near you thanks to a BME Senior Design project from 2003. Taking its name from the distinctive yellow and black bumblebe… Read more

Mike Lebhar, a BME undergraduate based at UNC-Chapel Hill, has been given an Honorable Mention by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship committee. The purpose of the scholarship is to provide a continuing s… Read more

BME graduate students Stephanie Cone, Jasmine Edelstein, and Justin Huckaby have been awarded a 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. The program is the oldest graduate fellowship of its kind, recogn… Read more

BME researchers Dr. Chao Wang, Dr. Zhen Gu, Yanqi Ye, and Gabrielle Hochu have developed a microneedle patch that, when applied to the site of a melanoma, results in a more effective treatment with le… Read more

This past month, the NC State/UNC joint Rehabilitation Engineering Center hosted a research “speed dating” event…with a twist. Attendees were given a small amount of time to meet, greet, and discuss… Read more