Month: April 2022

Name: Olivia Palmer Lab: Dr. Benjamin Keselowsky Hometown: Punta Gorda, FL Research focus: Immunoengineering! During undergraduate research I’ve been looking into using immunotherapeutic biomaterials to modulate the integrated stress response and characterizing a novel hydrogel that assembles via co-assembly of two charged peptides for the delivery of chemotherapies. In graduate school I am focusing on […]

Name: Omar Zermeno Lab: Dr. Gunduz Hometown: Jacksonville FL Fun fact: UF Housing Fair is my favorite holiday 🙂 What motivates you? I’m motivated by helping people by making things and being a lifelong learner What attracted you to UF BME? It sounded cool? I initially did it as a way to keep on the […]

Congratulations, UF BME Class of 2022! “On behalf of the department, I extend sincere congratulations and best of luck to the Class of 2022. We are immensely proud of your work and accomplishments! Best wishes to each of you, and please stay in touch.” Dr. Christine E. Schmidt   Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering  Graduation […]

Name: Bri Pawlyshyn Lab: None, but I’m a Learning Assistant for Dr. Mansy (best experience of my 4 years here!) Hometown: Naples, FL Research focus: None, but I’m industry bound, and I love the field of orthobiologics Fun fact: I drive a motorcycle and I think 3D printing is really cool What motivates you? I […]

Name: Mary Kasper, Ph.D. Lab: Schmidt Lab (Biomimetic Materials and Neural Engineering) Hometown: Cary, North Carolina Research focus: My research focuses on creating biomimetic hyaluronan-based scaffolds for peripheral nerve applications. I focus on understanding the native microenvironment of neural tissue and applying our knowledge to tissue-engineered constructs that include physical, biochemical, and enzymatic cues that […]

Name: Parker Kotlarz Lab: Nino Research Group Hometown: Pensacola, FL Research focus: My research focuses on identifying biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease using connectomics, percolation theory, and artificial intelligence. My goal is to create a point-of-care algorithm to predict the likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s disease using fMRI. Fun fact: I love movies, and I write screenplays […]

Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2022 Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering (HWCOE) Faculty, Student, and Staff Excellence Awards: Ismael Arroyo received the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Staff Award for Innovation. This award recognizes and rewards an HWCOE staff member who has best demonstrated extraordinary innovation and creativity in their job duties and […]

Congratulations to BME’s six outstanding students and alumni who have been selected for the 2022 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), which recognizes exceptional students who are pursuing full-time research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. We are so proud of our students and alumni being honored with […]

On April 14, the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at UF hosted Undergraduate Research Day. Undergraduate Research Day is designed to showcase the quality of student research projects conducted during the academic year, as well as to inspire classmates in the biomedical engineering programs to pursue their research. We had thirty-six undergraduate […]

by Bridgette Welch National Biomechanics Day honors the breakthrough science of the 21st century. This global celebration was observed in the Florida Gym as an annual outreach event that brings together labs from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, College of Public Health and Health Professions, and the College of Health and Human Performance. The purpose […]