Category: BME News

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, […]

The annual Outstanding Young Alumni awards program was established in 2006 to recognize alumni under the age of 40 whose achievements positively reflect The Gator Nation. 40 Under 40 will continue the tradition of honoring Gators who are reflecting leadership and innovation in their communities and professions. Criteria for the competitive award include making a […]

Congratulations to UF BME’s outstanding students and alums who have been selected for the 2023 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 […]

UF student group, GRiP (Generational Relief in Prosthetics), was awarded $1,000 in the EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service program) IEEE Access and Abilities global competition. EPICS asked that the Access and Abilities proposal should identify an accessibility problem in the local community and detail how the student team will attempt to solve the problem […]

The University Scholars Program introduces undergraduate students at the University of Florida to the exciting academic research world. In the program, students work one-on-one with UF faculty on selected research projects. The University Scholars Program serves as an exceptional capstone to the academic careers of UF students. The program will consist of undertaking an entire […]

By Brittany Sylvestri In 2006, Ana Maria Porras left everything she knew in her homeland of Colombia and moved to the United States to study biomedical engineering – a program that was scarce in her country. “After high school I found out you could study engineering and work on living things and biology,” said Porras. […]

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering has awarded its highest honor to Dr. Christine E. Schmidt, Professor, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Chair & Department Chair in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering. The Galletti Award recognizes contributions to public awareness of medical and biological engineering and the promotion of the […]

Dr. Parisa Rashidi was recently elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows! The College of Fellows is comprised of outstanding bioengineers in academia, industry and government, representing the top 2 % of medical and biological engineering professionals. Rashidi was elected for her visionary leadership in Medical AI research […]

Dr. Gregory Hudalla has been honored with the 2022 Molecular Systems Design & Engineering Outstanding Early-Career Paper Award for his exemplary leadership in the paper, ‘Heterogeneous protein co-assemblies with tunable functional domain stoichiometry.’ Hudalla’s research focuses on creating functional biomaterials for therapeutic or diagnostic applications through molecular self-assembly. His laboratory specializes in developing synthetic peptides […]