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Students make significant and lasting impacts on Brown through their leadership, creativity and commitment. Each year, various offices and centers within and beyond the Division of Campus Life solicit nominations for awards to recognize and celebrate these efforts.
Crisco Lab: First total wrist replacement with KinematX
Sixty-nine-year-old Mark Eisen says he waited seven years for a surgery he hopes will change his life. Last week, he had the first total wrist replacement with KinematX.
Coulombe earns NSF CAREER Award
Kareen Coulombe, Assistant Professor of Engineering and Assistant Professor of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award of $551,592 over five years.
George Kubai '21 will address classmates at 2021 Commencement
In keeping with a Brown tradition of elevating student voices at Commencement, seniors George Kubai and Siddhi Nadkarni will encourage their classmates to strengthen communities and remove barriers.
9 Undergraduates Completed Honors Theses in April 2021
Nine undergraduates completed their theses in April and will graduate with honors this spring.
Bardiya Akhbari PhD'21 will address fellow Class of 2021 graduates at the Graduate School Commencement ceremony
Bardiya Akhbari, a Ph.D. graduate in biomedical engineering, and Sonya Brooks, a master’s graduate in urban education policy, will speak about the power of human connection, especially in the midst of a global pandemic.
3 PhD Theses Defended in March 2021
Three students defend their PhD thesis work in Biomedical Engineering this semester.
9 Students Presented Master's Theses in March 2021
Nine students presented their master’s thesis work in Biomedical Engineering this semester.
Thomas Usherwood: Better health care through biomedical engineering
The Brown undergraduate and newly named Goldwater Scholar draws from multiple math and science disciplines to help devise innovative ways to improve health care through biomedical engineering.
Pharma redistribution company wins Brown Venture Prize
The pharmaceutical redistribution company MediCircle was the big winner at the Brown Venture Prize Pitch Competition, claiming the $25,000 first place prize that also comes with expert mentorship and networking opportunities.
BME Concentrator Thomas Usherwood '22 named 2021 Goldwater Scholar
Biomedical engineer Thomas Usherwood ’22 has been named one of 410 college students to receive a Barry Goldwater Scholarship for the 2021-2022 academic year.
Hochberg Lab: Researchers demonstrate first human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface
In an important step toward a fully implantable intracortical brain-computer interface system, BrainGate researchers demonstrated the first human use of a wireless transmitter capable of delivering high-bandwidth neural signals.
Dastin-van Rijn, Dwyer, Safford, and Vuong Selected NSF Graduate Research Fellows
Recent graduates Safford, Vuong and Wu also among those chosen for National Science Foundation Fellowship
Karniadakis Lab: New AI technique could help doctors predict aneurysm rupture
A new study shows that an artificial intelligence system informed with the physical laws governing flowing fluids can infer pressures and stresses on capillaries just by analyzing images or videos of blood flow.
PhD candidates Sabina Stefan and Dmitrijs Celinskis selected as Community Fellows
Ten Community Fellows were chosen for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Dawson, Fawzi, Hoffman-Kim, Munarin, and Srivastava Earn 2021 Research Seed Awards
IBEAM Faculty among 2022 SEED Awardees.
BME concentrator Eliza Sternlicht '22 chosen as finalist for Brown Venture Prize
Welcome to the fourth annual Brown Venture Prize, a friendly competition showcasing Brown’s most advanced ventures.
ORS 2021 - Virtual Conference
BME faculty and students participated in the 2021 virtual Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting from February 12 thru 16. Brown BME affiliated presentations included:
Startup by Abigail Kohler '20 brings CPR certification to your smartphone
Developed by two former Brown University students, ResusciTech helps train and certify users for first aid and CPR using a mobile app.
Darling Lab: Tiny sensor technique reveals cellular forces involved in tissue generation
A team of Brown University researchers developed a technique that uses tiny polymer spheres to sense the forces at play as body tissue forms and grows.
5 Theses Defended Before the Start of the 2021 Spring Semester
Two PhD students and three master's students defended their theses this winter. Their graduate degrees will be conferred in February. Congratulations to the new graduates!
George Karniadakis to receive SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering
Brown’s Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor of Applied Mathematics and Engineering George KarniadakisKarniadakis will receive the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Computational Science and Engineering.
Hochberg Lab: As the brain plans movements, the middle frontal gyrus is listening
A brain-computer interface study reveals one brain region’s surprising role in planning movements exclusively in response to sounds.
Shukla receives Falk Trust Transformational Award
Anita Shukla, assistant professor of engineering at Brown University, has been awarded a Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust Transformational Award, a $1 million grant over two years.