A University of Florida organization, Generational Relief in Prosthetics (GRiP) designs and manufactures 3D printed assistive devices for children and adults with upper limb differences all throughout the nation. GRiP focuses on the empowerment of the recipients and STEM education… Read More
Mingzhou Ding, Pruitt Family Professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been invited to join the editorial board of The Journal of Neuroscience as an associate editor. Ding was selected by the senior and reviewing editors… Read More
Science becomes art in the winning and notable photographs from the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering 2015 Art of Research Photo Contest. Thank you to all who submitted their images! Winners were selected by an expert panel… Read More
Anis Davoudi, a Ph.D. student in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, was awarded the UF Informatics Institute (UFII) Graduate Student Fellowship for her proposal, “Automatic Real-Time Detection of Delirium in Intensive Care Units using Patterns Recognition.”… Read More
Christine E. Schmidt, Pruitt Family Professor and Department Chair of the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, recently announced changes to the department’s leadership team effective January 1, 2016. The new structure for the department is an effort… Read More
Congratulations to BME Ph.D. students, Immanuel B.H. Samuel and Fuyong Xing, for being named Outstanding International Students by the UF International Center at the 21st Annual International Student Award Ceremony on November 17, 2015. Immanuel B.H. Samuel’s research interests are… Read More
Dear UF BME Family and Supporters, Happy New Year and for those at UF – welcome back to campus! As we embark on a new semester, I want to thank every member of the UF BME community for continuing to… Read More
Pruitt Family Professor and Department Chair, Dr. Christine E. Schmidt, is a co-author of a manuscript highlighted as one of the cover features for a recent issue of Macromolecular Rapid Communications. Macromolecular Rapid Communications (Impact Factor = 4.941) is a… Read More
Congratulations to BME M.S. student, Shruti Siva Kumar, who won the GE Industrial Remix Challenge for her entry in Borescope. The objective of the GE Industrial Remix Challenge is to identify innovative applications of an aviation fan blade technology, or… Read More
We would like to congratulate Dr. Hans van Oostrom, associate professor and associate chair of the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering Education for his new position as the founding director of the UF Institute for Excellence in… Read More