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.

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.

Brown University’s Breakthrough Lab (B-Lab) is an intensive 8-week accelerator program designed to support student entrepreneurs developing high-impact ventures.

The Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity, with generous support from the Office of the President, instituted the DIAP Community Awards in 2018.

Eighteen students presented their master’s thesis work in Biomedical Engineering this semester.

Professor Kareen Coulombe were among those honored with Brown University's awards in teaching, sponsored by the Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning.

Six students defended their PhD theses in April. They will receive their doctoral degrees on May 26th along with Thomas Valentin and Bryan Sutermaster who defended earlier in the academic year. Congratulations to all of the new PhDs!

Fourteen undergraduate students presented their thesis work on Friday, April 26th and will graduate with honors this spring.

At least six Brown University BME alums now work in various roles for the FDA. BME Director Vicki Colvin caught up with several of them during an AIMBE-FDA workshop held April 15-16 at the FDA’s White Oak campus. They all agree that a rewarding part of their work is that they help bring medical innovations to the market, ultimately improving people’s lives.

For undergraduate senior Tom Skipper, the road to Biomedical Engineering started back in high school with his love for science.

For alumna Kabisa Baughen, the journey to becoming an engineer at Catapult Product Development started with exploring her interests and options at Brown.

Nicolas Fawzi's work centers on determining the structure, dynamics, interactions of large assemblies of intrinsically disordered proteins.

A new type of hydrogel material developed by Brown University researchers could soon make assembling complex microfluidic or soft robotic devices as simple as putting together a LEGO set.

Brown’s undergraduate BMES group celebrated Pi day with pi, pie, science, scientist, and other trivia.

In an innovation that may ultimately help to prevent deadly bloodstream infections, a team of biomedical engineers and infectious disease specialists at Brown University developed a coating to keep intravascular catheters from becoming a haven for harmful bacteria.

All eyes are on the prize — and the entrepreneurial process — in this annual Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship competition among Brown’s most promising student ventures.

For recent graduate Bryan Sutermaster, the road to Biomedical Engineering has been inspired by his desire to help people. For this Pittsburgh, PA native, the field of biomedical research is one that is the perfect marriage of medicine and engineering, directed towards helping those in need.

Several of our Biomedical Engineering faculty and students presented posters and talks at the annual meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society in Austin, TX on February 2-5, 2019.

Vicki Colvin is the Vernon K. Krieble Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Engineering and Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biotechnology as well as the Director for the Center for Biomedical Engineering at Brown University.

Anthony Napolitano (PhD ’07) has balanced his interests in biomedical engineering and business for years. When asked how he incorporated entrepreneurship into his engineering studies, he says, “I tried to be well rounded in general, which is also a strength of Brown.”