Category: BME News

This year’s Neural Engineering Class presented their posters in the Biomedical Science Atrium to a keen crowd of students and faculty on April 23rd, 2019. The Neural Engineering course (BME6360), which is a project-based learning experience, teaches how to apply engineering techniques to study, repair or replace the nervous system. Students presented their work on […]

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering proudly congratulates 34 M.S. and Ph.D. graduates who obtained their degrees in spring 2019. To recognize the dedication and hard work od the graduating class, the department hosted a luncheon to celebrate – event photos are listed here. Ph.D. graduates: Jinzheng Cai, Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Lin […]

Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2019 Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering (HWCOE) Faculty, Student and Staff Excellence Awards: Sarah Albury, research administrator, received the HWCOE Staff Award for Innovation. The Staff Innovation Excellence Award recognizes and rewards an HWCOE staff member who has best demonstrated extraordinary innovation and creativity in their jobs duties, […]

Five UF BME students were selected for the Attributes of a Gator Engineer Award. The Gator Engineering Attribute Awards are intended to provide an ideal guide for all members of the gator engineering community. Established in 2010 as part of the college’s centennial celebration, the Attributes of a Gator Engineer embody the college’s expectations of […]

Congratulations to Dr. Aysegul Gunduz, associate professor and J. Crayton Pruitt Family Term Fellow, who has been named a UF Research Foundation Professor for 2019-2022. The University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) Professorships are awarded to tenured faculty members with a “distinguished current record of research”, in recognition of “recent contributions and to provide incentives […]

Congratulations to Dr. Ruogu Fang, assistant professor, whose research titled, Deep Evolutionary Networks with Expedited Genetic Algorithms for Medical Image Denoising, was recently published in Medical Image Analysis. Fang and researchers, Peng Liu, BME Ph.D. student; Mohammad D El Basha, BME Undergraduate senior student; Yangjunyi Li, BME mater’s student; and Yao Xiao, BME Ph.D. student, […]

Congratulations to BME’s five outstanding students who were just awarded with a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship! These fellowships recognize and support exceptional graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited US institutions. We are so proud of our students being […]

On April 8, 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 nine undergraduate […]

Dr. Aysegul Gunduz, associate professor and J. Crayton Pruitt Family Term Fellow, received the 2019 Graduate Education Diversity Champion Award from the UF Office of Graduate Diversity Initiatives and Multicultural Association of Graduate Students. The University of Florida Office of Graduate Diversity Initiatives and Multicultural Association of Graduate Students recognizes faculty or staff members who […]

Dr. Cherie Stabler, professor & associate chair for graduate studies, has been elected to the Society for Biomaterials governing council as Member-at-Large. The Society for Biomaterials is a multidisciplinary society of academic, healthcare, governmental and business professionals dedicated to promoting advancements in all aspects of biomaterial science, education and professional standards to enhance human health […]