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BME Assistant Professor Andrea Giovannucci receives UNC Undergraduate Teaching Award

At this year’s UNC Chancellor’s Awards Ceremony, BME Assistant Professor Andrea Giovannucci received the Student Undergraduate Teaching Award for his time and effort to improve UNC undergraduate stude… Read more

Yevgeny Brudno
BME Assistant Professor Yevgeny Brudno receives two NC State Teaching Awards

In April, BME Assistant Professor Yevgeny Brudno received both the NC State Outstanding Teacher Award and the Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award from the Alumni Association. The Outstanding Teacher Awar… Read more

BME Student Winners at 2022 NC State’s eGames

We are proud to announce BME student winners at this year’s eGames, NC State’s largest entrepreneurship competition with over $100k in cash prizes. Student teams compete in two categories — “Think” an… Read more

2021-2022 Cohort of Abrams Scholars

We are pleased to announce the 2021-2022 cohort of Abrams Scholars: this year 45 excellent BME undergraduates were selected from a very strong applicant pool to receive a mentored research fellowship… Read more

BME 2022 Lucas Scholars

BME is proud to announce the 2022 Lucas Scholars and their mentors: Allison Thorson (Mentor: Dr. Rahima Benhabbour); Grace Krohn (Mentor: Dr. William Polacheck) ; and Helen Tran (Mentor: Dr. Brian Die… Read more

2022 BME recipients of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

BME recipients of the 2022 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) are: graduate students Austin Mituniewicz, mentored by Professor Helen Huang; Sanika Pandit, me… Read more

BME PhD Student Noah Rubin wins 3rd place at NC State Graduate Research Symposium

Earlier this month, BME PhD student Noah Rubin represented the Joint BME Department at the 15th Annual NC State Graduate Symposium, where his poster won 3rd place among 34 abstracts in the Engineering… Read more

BME Assistant Professor Rahima Benhabbour receives the 2022 CRS Member of the Year Award

BME Assistant Professor Rahima Benhabbour, who is also adjunct professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, recently received the 2022 Controlled Release Society (CRS) Member of the Year Award. T… Read more

BME Brudno Lab develops an implantable biotechnology for attacking cancerous tumors

Researchers led by BME Assistant Professor Yevgeny Brudno have developed an implantable biotechnology that produces and releases CAR-T cells for attacking cancerous tumors. In a proof-of-concept study… Read more

BME Giving Days in March 2022

Given that the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) is part of two campuses, UNC Chapel Hill and NC State, there are two days to support BME: today March 23 at NC State’s Day of Giving, an… Read more

BME Affiliate Amay Bandodkar received Biosensors Young Investigator Award

BME Affiliated Faculty Amay Bandodkar, who is Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State, recently received the Young Investigator Award by Biosensors Journal. Dr Bandodkar… Read more

BME Associate Professor Jason Franz invited to participate at the NAE 2022 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

BME Associate Professor Jason Franz has been invited to participate at the 2022 China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (CAFOE), to be held July 18-20 at the National Academies’ Beckman Cente… Read more