BME News

BME Ph.D. candidate awarded NIH F31 NRSA Fellowship

Robert Accolla

Robert Accolla, Ph.D. candidate in the Stabler lab, received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship for his project titled, Engineering Modular Oxygen-generating, Pro-vasculogenic Biomaterial Platforms for Cell-Based Therapies. The… Read More

2020 BME Departmental Excellence Award Winners Announced

Congratulations to the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering departmental award winners! Award winners were selected based on submitted nomination materials and faculty CVs/teaching evaluations. Winners were recognized during the department’s annual Holiday Party! Congratulations to the following… Read More

BME unveils updated project space for senior design class

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering officially opened the improved Senior Design space. The room will support students in the biomedical engineering senior design class, a project-based course designed for custom strategies to address real-life issues in… Read More

2020 BME Departmental Excellence Award winners announced

Congratulations to the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering departmental award winners! Award winners were selected based on submitted nomination materials and faculty CVs/teaching evaluations. Winners were recognized during the 2020 BME Annual Holiday Party. Congratulations to the… Read More

Eye Exam Could Lead to Early Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis

Forbes Article Radiological Society of North America Press Release: OAK BROOK, Ill. — A simple eye exam combined with powerful artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning technology could provide early detection of Parkinson’s disease, according to research being presented at the… Read More

BME student selected as a HWCOE scholarship recipient

Congratulations to Gianna Sweeting for being selected as a Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering 2020-2021 scholarship recipient! Her research focuses on multi-scale neuroimaging modeling and segmentation in the SMILE lab with Dr. Ruogu Fang.