Dr. Sitaram and his co-workers reported the release of an open toolbox for rapid, online decoding of brain’s functional states from functional magnetic resonance imaging signals. The technical article was published recently in the Journal of Frontiers in Neuroscience: http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2013.00170/abstract. The… Read More
One year ago on October 12, 2012, the body of biomedical engineering student, Christian Aguilar, was found after a long search outside of Gainesville in Otter Creek, Florida. The University of Florida freshman went missing on September 20, 2012. Agencies… Read More
UF BME had a great turnout for the 2013 BMES Annual Meeting in Seattle this past month! Thank you to everyone who came out and supported the department. Faculty, post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students as well as staff members were… Read More
Dr. Huabei Jiang‘s artwork was displayed last night at the Harn Museum Nights event titled “Art in Engineering”. Dr. Jiang’s piece is a poem written in Chinese caligraphy. Please see the English translation noted below and help us congratulate Dr.… Read More
BME Medical Physics Students Pass ABR Part 1 Current BME Medical Physics students Amy Geyer, Matthew Hoerner, Badal Juneja, Rebecca Lamoureux, Soyoung Lee, Izabella Lipnharski, Nelia Long, Anna Mench, Shannon O’Reilly, Heather Petroccia, Elliott Stepusin and recent Ph.D. graduate Danny… Read More
The Biomedical Engineering department is holding information sessions for prospective undergraduates. This presentation will provide a summary of what biomedical engineering is, an overview of the undergraduate curriculum, information on the admissions process, options for pursuing a career in biomedical… Read More
Congratulations to Research Assistant Scientist, Dr. Zin Khaing, who was selected to receive a BMES Innovation and Career Development Travel Award! Those eligible for the Travel Awards were graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and early career faculty and professionals at critical… Read More
The IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Gainesville Student Organization at the University of Florida is starting its 2013-14 academic year activities with a kick-off social event featuring a keynote speech from the IEEE EMBS President Dr. Bruce… Read More
Congratulations to the following recipients of the AxoGen Student Travel Fellowship! Jamie Grooms, CEO of the Florida Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research, provided a $1000 donation for these fellowships to help support student travel to Biomedical Engineering conferences.… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Ranganatha Sitaram who recently received an EU-India collaboration grant to research stroke rehabiliation! Originally published by New Indigo Regain mobility in a stroke! Stroke is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity… Read More