UF’s Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Student Chapter is officially approved! These student chapters are the foundation for the BME society, uniting and promoting the future of the biomedical engineering profession. For rising biomedical engineers, these chapters offer the chance… Read More
BME Affiliate and ISE Distinguished Professor, Panos Pardalos, has been awarded the 2013 EURO Gold Medal prize, bestowed by the Association for European Operational Research Societies. This medal is the preeminent European award given to Operations Research (OR) professionals. As… Read More
Advising for BME students will be available through Fall drop/add. Click to make an appointment. Freshmen are discouraged to make an appointment now because there is little BME can do to get you in your courses. There will be extensive… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Jim Schumacher and team (listed below) who were selected to participate in the Coulter College Student Program! Coulter College is being held for the second year in conjunction with the 2013 BMES Annual Meeting in Seattle. The… Read More
Congratulations to Professor Bruce Wheeler on his election as a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)! BMES Fellow is a distinction reserved for only a few select BMES members who demonstrate exceptional achievements and experience in the field of biomedical… Read More
The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering would like to welcome Dr. Parisa Rashidi, who has recently accepted an Assistant Professor position! Dr. Rashidi is currently an Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Informatics Division at the Feinberg… Read More
Nandini Shekhar, of BME Affiliate Dr. Tanmay Lele’s lab, has her work featured as one of four most outstanding cellular and molecular bioengineering papers at the 2013 BMES meeting. Her paper titled “Fluctuating Motor Forces Bend Growing Microtubules” investigates the… Read More
The Summer 2013 issue of the Explore Magazine highlights the research efforts of five faculty members from the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida: Drs. Wesley Bolch, Jon Dobson, Huabei Jiang, Christine Schmidt… Read More
Associate Chair and Associate Professor Hans van Oostrom was elected as an officer of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Biomedical Engineering Division (BED). His position is Member-At-Large and his responsibility will be to participate on the BED Executive… Read More
Congratulations to BME Ph.D. student, Olga Gopan, who has been invited to the 2013 Young Investigator’s Award Symposium of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Annual Meeting this August in Indianapolis, Indiana! Her presentation is entitled, “Molecular breast imaging… Read More