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Congratulations to Dr. Wesley Bolch, professor, who recently received the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award for 2019-2020. The Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award recognizes excellence, innovation and effectiveness in doctoral student advising and mentoring. Bolch will be formally acknowledged at the Spring Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Awards Luncheon in April.

Cherie Stabler, Ph.D., professor, and Jennifer Nichols, Ph.D., assistant professor, have been named an Anderson Scholar Faculty Honoree from the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for being inspiring & influential to students. The award is named after James N. Anderson, who served as the first Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1910-1930). […]

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: Gregory Hudalla, Ph.D. […]

Dr. Jon Dobson, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Professor, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional accolade bestowed solely to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact […]

Thank you to everyone who participated in our 8th Annual Pruitt Research Day! This successful event included a full day of student talks, keynote speaker and poster presentations in celebration of the wonderful research being conducted in the department and the BME community. We hold our celebration near the birth date of Dr. J. Crayton […]

UF BME sophomore, Julie Mallinger, and UF team members won a silver medal at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition. The UF iGEM team selected the Synthetic Cellular Recorders Integrating Biological Events (SCRIBE) System because it gives amateur microbiologists the ability to couple a chosen stimulus with the desired mutation and quantify that signal. […]

Congratulations to the following undergraduate students who won the BMES Medtronic Student Design Competition at the BMES Annual Meeting in Philadelphia: Team members include Altaful Amin, Justina Chan, Alexander Dluzneski, Youssef Elbanna, Marye Lee, Brian Nazareth, Henry Nguyen, and Giancarlo Tejeda. The faculty mentor was Dr. Samsun Lampotang, the senior design instructor was Dr. Lakiesha […]

Thank you to those who participated in our Halloween decorating contest! The panel of judges had a lot of fun walking around to the labs and seeing everyone’s fun and festive décor and we are excited to announce the winners! You can find event pictures here.   Best Trick-or-Treats – Nichols Lab       […]

In collaboration with the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, the J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering hosted an educational outreach event for students from K-12 to foster diversity and inspire the next generation of engineers. This one-day event hosted 44 students from Booker High School in Sarasota, Florida, and featured hands-on activities, presentations, […]

Congratulations to Mhairi K. MacLean, BME Ph.D. student, who is a finalist for the UF Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition for her work entitled, Moon-Walk with a Robot. MacLean is part of the Human Neuromechanics Lab and her research goal is to improve gait rehabilitation at a low cost. She designed a body weight support system […]