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BME alum Jamie Cone, who graduated from NC State with a concentration in biomaterials, is currently an Engineer II at BD Technologies & Innovation in Research Triangle Park. One of her main respon… Read more

We are pleased to announce the 2020-2021 cohort of Abrams Scholars: this year 38 excellent BME undergraduates were selected from a very strong applicant pool to receive a mentored research fellowship… Read more

This Fall semester seven BME students were inducted into Alpha of North Carolina Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa: Justin David Boyd, Jennifer Sue Cochand, Callum James Funk, Shureed Deepro Qazi, Ananya Tand… Read more

BME Ross Lampe Distinguished Professor Frances S. Ligler, has been recognized by The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) with the Simon Ramo Founders Award “for extraordinary impact on the engineeri… Read more

BME PhD student Martin MacKinnon was the first place winner of the Bruker MRI Award for his entry iZTE-fMRI at the 2020 virtual meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine… Read more

BME Undergraduate students William Arana, Macy Farrar and Joseph Fisher participated at the 75th Ranger Regiment inaugural Academic Research Symposium, hosted virtually through Zoom on September 30th,… Read more

BME faculty Dr. Jason Franz has been awarded a new Developmental Research Grant Award (R21) from the National Institutions of Health (NIH) for his proposal titled “The peripheral motor repertoire as a… Read more

Altis Biosystems, a company co-founded by BME Associate Professor Scott Magness and former chair Dr. Nancy Allbritton, recently announced completion of a $3.1 million seed investment led by VentureSou… Read more

The TERMIS-AM Committee has awarded Ashley Brown with the 2020 Young Investigator Award. Due to the postponement of the 2020 TERMIS-AM Conference to next year in Toronto, Canada, each award recipient… Read more

BME Interim Chair Paul Dayton has won the 2020 IEEE UFFC – Ultrasonics Carl Hellmuth Hertz Award. Dr. Dayton received the award for contributions to the study of microbubbles and phase change contrast… Read more

BME assistant professor Rahima Benhabbour, who is also adjunct professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, was recently featured in the NC TraCS introduction video, after receiving support from… Read more

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) recently announced the 2020 class of Senior Members: BME Professor Roger Narayan is among the 38 accomplished academic inventors representing 24 research univer… Read more