Tag: Lakiesha Williams

Eiko Alzamora, a Ph.D. student in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, has been selected for the CATT-ADRD Training Program in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Diseases. Alzamora will begin the two-year fellowship on January 6, 2026, following a highly competitive national selection process. Under the mentorship of […]

The University of Akron News There are few things we encounter in our daily lives that have not been touched in some way by engineers. From bridges to clean water to mobile phones, we rely on engineers to create, design and build most of the materials we need to function. We depend on engineers for […]

Dr. Lakiesha Williams, professor and associate chair for graduate studies, has been named a 2024 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Fellow. BMES will honor this year’s class of fellows during the society’s annual conference in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 24. Each new fellow will also receive a BMES Fellows pin. The Fellow grade of membership is […]

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering is proud to announce that Jai Raccioppi, a Ph.D. student in the Williams lab, has been awarded the McKnight Doctoral Fellowship (MDF). This prestigious fellowship, allocated by the Florida Education Fund (FEF) to fifty incoming Ph.D. students each year, aims to increase academic diversity. Raccioppi’s research […]

Dr. Lakiesha Williams, professor and associate chair for graduate studies, has been invited to serve as a standing member of the Bioengineering of Neuroscience, Vision Technologies Study Section (BNVT). This appointment recognizes Dr. Williams’ expertise and contributions to bioengineering and neuroscience. The BNVT study section reviews applications focused on developing and utilizing bioengineering, materials engineering, […]

The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering is pleased to announce five faculty members have received promotions effective July 1, 2023. The promotion process is a rigorous review of the faculty members’ clinical accomplishments; scholarship of teaching and learning; research; and service to the university, society and the profession. Their contributions are greatly […]

Doctoral student Ta-Tyonna Buck from Dr. Williams’ Lab has been accepted to attend the NeuroPixels & Openscope Workshop at the Allen Institute in Seattle, Washington. Buck will have the opportunity to work with other top scientists and researchers in the field of neuroscience and develop her skills in state-of-the-art neural circuitry and live cell imaging […]

Funded by a $1.7 million R01 award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke, a research arm of the National Institute of Health, a multidisciplinary University of Florida research team headed by Lakiesha Williams, Ph.D., associate professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, will test what they hope will […]