Category: BME News

Congratulations to BME undergraduate student, Gianna Sweeting, for being selected as a Fernandez Family Scholar by the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering for her excellent progress and interest in research and graduate studies. Her research focuses on multi-scale neuroimaging modeling and segmentation in the SMILE lab with Dr. Ruogu Fang. The Fernandez Family Scholars program supports Gator engineers […]

Congratulations to Dr. Cherie Stabler, who received a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) grant for her project, Engineering Bioactive Retrievable 3D Scaffolds for Improving Islet Transplantation. The development of treatment options for insulin-dependent diabetics that provide a highly regulated glucose-sensing and insulin-secreting closed loop system could result in dramatic improvements in quality of life and […]

Mr. George Harper of Boca Raton, Florida, has bequeathed $450,000 as a legacy gift to the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering to support graduate student fellowships. This substantial gift is a first of its kind for the department. While not an alumnus of UF, Mr. Harper credits biomedical engineering technology for saving […]

Congratulations to BME professor & Integra LifeSciences Term Professor, Dr. Cherie Stabler, who was elected to serve as President-Elect for the Americas Chapter of TERMIS (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society). Dr. Stabler’s research centers on engineering translational biomaterial platforms for cell-based therapies, particularly Type 1 diabetes. Specifically, her research seeks to develop bioactive […]

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 prestigious fellowship covers full tuition, stipend, and educational expenses. Accolla’s mentor on the project is […]

Congratulations to Dr. Ruogu Fang (PI), assistant professor, Dr. Mingzhou Ding (Co-PI), distinguished professor and J. Crayton Pruitt Family Professor, and Dr. Andreas Keil (collaborator), professor of psychology for their project, “OR-DRD-AI2020: VCA-DNN: Neuroscience-Inspired Artificial Intelligence for Visual Emotion Recognition” being selected as an awardee from UF Research, Artificial Intelligence Research Catalyst Fund. Human emotions […]

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 outstanding BME faculty, staff and students! UF BME Faculty Research Excellence Award: Parisa Rashidi, Ph.D. […]

Congratulations to Dr. May Mansy (Co-PI) and UF collaborators for their recent grant funded by the UF Office of Research on their project, Cultivating equity in STEM classrooms at UF: A multidisciplinary collaboration to create a training course in inclusive, antiracist teaching practices for Learning Assistants (LAs) in STEM courses. Only 20% of underrepresented students […]

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Furtney, lecturer and undergraduate coordinator, for being selected to receive the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Undergraduate/Advisor Mentor of the Year for 2020-21. This honor, based on an extensive review of her credentials, letters of recommendation, and peer and student evaluations, recognizes excellence in mentoring our students. College Undergraduate Adviser/Mentor Award […]

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 developing biocompatible and biomimetic devices for biotechnology or biomedical applications. Student teams work with clients […]