For assistant professor Chelsea Magin, coming up with her first teaching assignment was easy. The class was Engineering General Chemistry, an introductory course, which provides a rigor and depth needed to prepare students for advanced coursework in various engineering specialties.… Read More
UF BME Ph.D. student, Shruti Siva Kumar, was selected to receive a 2017 BMES Career Development Travel Award. The award covers registration and a travel allowance for the BMES annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. Those eligible for the Travel Awards… Read More
Dr. Benjamin Keselowsky (PI), professor, and Dr. Gregory Hudalla, assistant professor, along with collaborators, Shannon Wallet and Mark Wallet were recently awarded a $2.1 million NIH grant entitled “Tissue-Targeted Enzyme for Localized Tryptophan Catabolism to Direct Subcutaneous.” Periodontal disease refers… Read More
Dr. Gregory A. Hudalla, assistant professor and J. Crayton Pruitt Family Term Fellow, and collaborators were recently awarded a $1 million NSF RAISE grant entitled, “RAISE: Design of co-assembling peptides as recombinant protein fusion tags for integrating enzymes into supramolecular… Read More
UF BME students, Olivia Lanier and Rachna Sannegowda, received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship to attend the 16th NSF International Summer School (2017) on Bio-X: Biocomplexity, Biodesign and Bioinnovation. The 2017 summer school was held in the Mediterranean city… Read More
The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering is proud to announce that 10 BME undergraduate students each received a $1,000 scholarship from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. • Margaret Pires-Fernandes, C. Addison Pound, Jr. and Annie Cannon… Read More
Dr. Parisa Rashidi, UF BME assistant professor, and collaborators were recently awarded an R01 grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) for their work entitled, “PRECEDE: PREsurgical Cognitive Evaluation via Digital clockfacE drawing.” Pre-operative cognitive abilities and increasing… Read More
Congratulations to the following BME students who were awarded a Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Graduate School Preeminence Award (GSPA). • Robert Accolla• Matthew Becker• Kiara Chan• Lauren Savanna Dewberry• David Walker Hagen• Rachel Hybart• Jahnelle Jordan• Mary Kasper• Shreedevi… Read More
Congratulations to five BME Ph.D. students who were recently awarded the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Research Institute Fellowships for 2017-2018! Each institute offers five fellowships in the amount of $4,000 to new Ph.D. students. This is a one-time paid… Read More
The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering recently hosted Engineering for Biology: Multidisciplinary Research Experiences for Teachers in Elementary Grades (MRET). Dr. Chelsey Simmons, BME affiliate and assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, is… Read More