Month: April 2023

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering continues to rise in rankings, now #12 nationally among the top public engineering schools for graduate biomedical/bioengineering degrees, according to U.S. News & World Report. Chosen by the department chairs of peer institutions, UF BME’s rankings represent a significant advance in the 2023-2024 rankings among the […]

Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2022-2023 Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering (HWCOE) Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards: Dr. Kyle Allen received the UF Doctoral Mentoring Award This honor, based on an extensive review of their credentials, letters of recommendation, and peer and student evaluations, recognizes excellence in mentoring our students. Dr. Kevin Otto […]

Kiara Xhindi Lab: Nino Research Group Hometown: Vlore, Albania Research focus: Network science studies complex systems as networks. In brain networks, community finding algorithms identify groups of interconnected brain regions, to help uncover the brain’s organization and simplify data analysis. This knowledge could shed light to disease topology and early biomarker detection. Fun fact: I […]

Jean-Pierre Pierantoni Lab: Dr. Benjamin Keselowsky Hometown: Tampa, FL Research focus: Biomaterials, Immune Engineering principles by utilizing glycosylation methods for modification of proteins Fun fact: I was born with 6 wisdom teeth What motivates you?  What gets my brain going is a feeling of being excited for something I do not know yet, whether it […]

Marion Hagstrom Lab: Nino Research Group (MSE) Hometown: Pierson, FL Research focus: Connectomic Analysis of Aging in the Human Brain Fun fact: I toured the BME cell lab when I was a junior in high school! What motivates you? I want to help others acquire the means to gain independence and mobility. This led me […]

Congratulations, UF BME Class of 2023! “On behalf of the department, I extend sincere congratulations and best of luck to the Class of 2023. 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 […]

Congratulations to Dr. Meghan Ferrall-Fairbanks on co-authoring the article Modeling collective cell behavior in cancer: perspectives from an interdisciplinary conversation, in Cell Systems. From article: A group of researchers from diverse biological and quantitative fields recently gathered for a 5-day innovation lab facilitated by the National Cancer Institute titled “Modeling Emergent Cellular Behavior in Cancer” (February […]

Congratulations to Akshay Ashok and Grace Cheng on being selected to the UF Center for Undergraduate Research AI Scholars Program. This scholarship is part of the University Scholars Program and was established to introduce outstanding full-time undergraduate students to the exciting world of academic research. In this program, students work one-on-one with UF faculty on […]

On April 12, 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-two undergraduate […]

UF News by Eric Hamilton Captain of her high school tennis team and a four-year veteran of varsity tennis in college, Amanda Studnicki had been training for this moment for years. All she had to do now was think small. Like ping pong small. For weeks, Studnicki, a graduate student at the University of Florida, […]