Dear UF BME Family and Supporters, Happy New Year and for those at UF – welcome back to campus! As we embark on a new semester, I want to thank every member of the UF BME community for continuing to… Read More

Pruitt Family Professor and Department Chair, Dr. Christine E. Schmidt, is a co-author of a manuscript highlighted as one of the cover features for a recent issue of Macromolecular Rapid Communications. Macromolecular Rapid Communications (Impact Factor = 4.941) is a… Read More

Congratulations to BME M.S. student, Shruti Siva Kumar, who won the GE Industrial Remix Challenge for her entry in Borescope. The objective of the GE Industrial Remix Challenge is to identify innovative applications of an aviation fan blade technology, or… Read More

We would like to congratulate Dr. Hans van Oostrom, associate professor and associate chair of the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering Education for his new position as the founding director of the UF Institute for Excellence in… Read More

A new book entitled “Mimicking the Extracellular Matrix: The Intersection of Matrix Biology and Biomaterials” has been co-edited by University of Florida biomedical engineering professor Dr. Greg Hudalla and Dr. William L. Murphy, a biomedical engineering professor at the University… Read More

Congratulations to BME graduate student, Shannon Brown, who was recently announced as a winner of the Thomas O. Hunter Leadership Scholarship by the Engineering Leadership Institute.  This scholarship provides four $1,500 scholarships to full-time students with distinguished leadership credentials. Selected… Read More

Jon Dobson, a professor at the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dobson will be recognized during a ceremony for new Fellows Saturday,… Read More

On November 16, the department of Biomedical Engineering at UF hosted the 4th Annual Pruitt Research Day. Pruitt Research Day is designed to showcase the quality of student research projects conducted during the academic year, as well as to inspire… Read More

We’d like to thank everyone who participated in yet another fantastically-creepy Halloween Contest! You can find the event pictures here. All the competing labs put a lot of effort into coming up with very creative/funny/spooky lab decoration and costume ideas .… Read More