Incoming Master's student Ramisa Fariha's celebrity crush helped her realize she wanted to be a biomedical engineer. Growing up in Bangladesh, she had very slow dialup internet and had to share internet time with her cousins, brother, and parents.

Vikas Srivastava has recently joined the Center for Biomedical Engineering as an assistant professor. Professor Srivastava's background is in solid mechanics and mechanics of materials. "I was educated as a mechanical engineer," he says. "My PhD research at MIT was on amorphous polymers and shape memory polymers."

Professors Ian Wong and Jay Tang were invited speakers at a workshop on Jamming in Biological Systems from August 6-17, hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences - Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, organized by Fangfu Ye (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Corey O'Hern (Yale University).

Giant cancer cells are much larger and stiffer than other cancer cells and move further, study shows.

A group of four Brown University biomedical engineering students designed a solution to facilitate communication between doctors and non-English speaking patients at the 2018 Biomedical Engineering Society Coulter College Training Program competition in Minneapolis, Minn. over the weekend of Aug. 2-5.

Brown Biomedical Engineering students conducting research this summer showcased their work at the Brown Summer Research Symposium held on August 2nd and 3rd, 2018, at Sayles Hall presented by The Office of the Dean of the College.

J.J. Trey Crisco majored in Mathematics and Fine Arts at Amherst College and received his doctorate in Applied Mechanics from Yale University.

In high school, many subjects captured Sumaiya Sayeed’s interest, but as she started college, she knew that a STEM concentration was the right direction for her. “In my first
semester…I was part of a first-year seminar and a club where we did a lot of STEM journal article reading. I was very impressed by the world out there and wanted to dive right into
research,” she says.

Each summer, this Brown-based coalition sends young scholars of color to conduct research at the top universities in the nation — opportunities that often change the course of their lives and are changing the face of academia.

Vikas Srivastava, former Mechanics Team Lead and Mechanics of Materials and Fitness for Service Research Area Lead at ExxonMobil Upstream Research, has joined the Brown University School of Engineering as assistant professor.

The Carney Institute for Brain Science has awarded five Graduate Awards in Brain Science for the 2018/2019 Academic Year. These awards recognize early career scientists who have made outstanding achievements as graduate students and have demonstrated strong potential for successful lifelong scientific careers.

Diane Hoffman-Kim began working at Brown as an Assistant Professor in 1998.

Brian Vuong has not restricted himself to engineering while at Brown - he’s spent much of his time outside of class involved in the Applied Music Program. Last year, he won the Brown Orchestra Concerto Competition and performed as a soloist with the orchestra.

The senior capstone class in Brown’s biomedical engineering curriculum starts with real-world problems in medical practice and challenges students to come up with unique, often marketable, solutions.

Anubhav Tripathi received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Ileana Pirozzi '18 is one of five recipients of the Brown University Distinguished Senior Thesis Prize.

The Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, based at the Providence V.A. Medical Center and led by a Brown professor, received a $4.5 million funding renewal.

“It’s been really worth it to see something I designed to come out and be part of science,” says Rafael David González-Cruz. “There was a lot of me struggling and learning how to do things, but it was really rewarding.” Dr. González-Cruz recently defended his thesis in the Darling lab on mechanical property and gene expression heterogeneity in adipose-derived stem cell populations.

When asked why she pursued a PhD, Elizabeth Leary recalls her first job out of undergrad: “My boss was always wanting me to ask her questions, wanting me to design my own experiments, treating me not just as a tech, but as someone who wanted to learn and was curious.”