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In June, Andrew Marshall was in Providence as the keynote speaker at the Rhode Island IDeA Symposium.
Faculty and Graduate Students Connect at BME Community Events
Brown Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology graduate students kick-started the 2019-2020 academic year with two community building events at the residence of Dr. Vicki Colvin, the Director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering (CBME).
BME Student Among RI Inno’s Second Annual "Inno Under 25" List
Brown School of Engineering's Abigail Kohler '20 (biomedical engineering) and Greg Fine '20 (electrical engineering) were recently named to Rhode Island Inno's second annual Inno Under 25 list.
BME Students and Team Win Top Award at Brown Hack Health 2019
Huddled over laptops lit by colorful lines of code, around 80 students collaborated in 13 teams at the fourth annual Brown Hack Health event over the weekend.
September Alumni Spotlight - Kelsey Sandquist '17
The Brown BME family welcomes students who call different cities, states, and countries around the world ‘home’. But BME alumna Kelsey Sandquist has a different definition for ‘home’, “I wrote my CommonApp essay on being asked by people where I am from,” she said.
September Faculty Spotlight - Fabiola Munarin
BME Graduate Students Teach and Learn Through Summer @ Brown
On the surface, Summer@Brown (S@B) is a pre-college program that offers a range of courses reflecting the breadth and depth of Brown’s undergraduate curriculum, but the opportunities here are not only for pre-college students.
Welcome to Our 31 New BME Graduate Students!
BME faculty, staff, and students along with our colleagues in the Biotechnology graduate program gathered on Pembroke field for food and fun on Thursday, August 29th!
Tripathi and Shukla Labs: New Technique Isolates Placental Cells for Non-invasive Genetic Testing
A new technique for isolating cells carrying the full fetal genome from cervical swabs could enable doctors to diagnose genetic disorders without using needles to harvest cells from the placenta.
An Immigrant's Story: How Three Decades in the U.S. Shaped Ravi Bellamkonda PhD'94
Pratt dean arrived in Rhode Island knowing few people and without a plan for his future.
BME Master's Students Turned a Design Tool Into a Post-Grad Opportunity
“Who wants to build a knee?” This was the question posed by sophomore Trang Duong to the engineers present at the Brown University buildathon in March 2016 — an annual event where builders and designers come together and make some creative, funky, and (sometimes) useful things.
Borton Lab: Brown and UMN researchers decode the brain to help patients with mental illnesses
Approximately 1 in 5 adults in the United States experience mental illness in a given year. Severe mental illnesses cause the brain to have trouble dealing with cognitively effortful states, like focusing attention over long periods of time, discriminating between two things that are difficult to tell apart, and responding quickly to information that is coming in fast.
Wong Lab: Research shows human cells assembling into fractal-like clusters
In a finding that could shed light on tissue formation, wound healing and cancer spread, a new study shows that human cells follow the same rules as non-living particles to form fractal-like branching structures.
Engineering Students Participate in 2019 Summer Research Symposium
More than 240 undergraduates gathered in Sayles Hall on August 1 and 2 to present the results of their research at the annual Summer Research Symposium sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the College.
Jeffrey Morgan and Carl Saab receive Brown Biomedical Innovations to Impact grants
Brown Biomedical Innovations to Impact will award five faculty projects $100,000 each to accelerate promising medical solutions into commercial technologies.
BME alum and rugby referee Emily Hsieh ’12 aims for the Olympics
As a first-year student, Emily Hsieh ’12 was in a friend’s dorm room and happened to look into the closet. “She had a ball in there, and I said, ‘Oh, is that a rugby ball?’ She said yes and told me when practice was the next day. I showed up, and then I was hooked.”
Anita Shukla earns top White House award for early-career scientists
Assistant Professor Anita Shukla is among the winners of the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering, the nation's top honor for early-career scientists and engineers.
Fawzi Lab: Scientists identify interactions that stabilize a protein associated with neurodegeneration
Understanding the normal molecular interactions could aid in the development of therapeutics to prevent the formation of clumps associated with ALS and frontotemporal dementia.
BME-affiliated faculty member Nicolas Fawzi wins NSF CAREER award
The awards for early-career faculty will support research in computer networking, algebraic geometry, neurodegenerative diseases and robotics.
56 Degrees in Biomedical Engineering were conferred at Commencement 2019
BME graduate program co-founder Tayhas Palmore named the Elaine I. Savage Professor of Engineering
Brown engineering’s first female full professor, Tayhas Palmore, awarded the endowed professorship named after engineering’s first female Ph.D. graduate, Elaine I. Savage.
Students and Faculty Gathered for the 2019 BME and Biotech Retreat
Faculty, staff, and students gathered on May 19-20 for the 2019 BME & Biotechnology PhD Programs Retreat with the mission to advance our research and training programs through scientific presentations, professional development activities, dialogue, and community building.
Students and faculty gathered in Hazeltine Commons on May 9, 2019 to cap off our yearlong capstone design projects. The capstone design course leverages the expertise and resources of Brown University BME students to tackle the plethora of clinical needs in many of our affiliated health centers. Students worked directly with clinicians and healthcare professionals to address their engineering design challenges including:
BME PhD students honored for collaboration in campus leadership roles
Out in STEM (oSTEM) and Graduate Students of Color in STEM (GSOCnSTEM) were recently honored by Brown’s Student Activities Office for collaboration. These groups collaborated on DiversiTEAs, an ongoing event series centered around various identities in STEM.