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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).
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.
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.
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!
“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.
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.
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.”
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:
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.