Please join us in welcoming the following graduate students to the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Interdisciplinary Program:

• William (Bill) Brands
  BS Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona; research interest ovarian cancer diagnostics
• Carlos Chang
  BS Materials Science & Engineering and BFA (concentration in 2D and Electronic Studies), Alfred University New York; research interests biological computing, tissue engineering, and manipulation of biomimetic materials to create bio-nano devices
• Joe Christian
  BS Computer Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; research interests vascular remodeling, neuromorphic engineering for robotic automation; tactile perception microarrays
• Kevin Harkins
  BSE Electrical Engineering, Northern Arizona University; research interests computational biology and bioimaging
• Greg Martin
  BS Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona; broad range of biologically and neurological oriented research interests
  
• Stephen Moore
  BS Computer Engineering, Brigham Young University; research interests MRI technology and robotic designs to imitate biological systems

We are pleased to announce the following Biomedical Engineering Program graduate students have been awarded external support for the coming academic year:

• Kristen O’Halloran of Dr. Stuart Williams’ lab has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. The fellowship provides a maximum tenure of three years that can be used over a period of five years.
• Alex Tumlinson of Dr. Jennifer Barton’s lab has received a fellowship from the Fulbright Commission to study in Austria and build a high-resolution endoscope.
• Ned Kirkpatrick (Dr. Urs Utzinger) and Timothy Melano (Dr. Chuck Higgins) have both received Achievement Rewards for College Scientists.

Congratulations to these students and their mentors!

BME Founders Seminar

Each year the Biomedical Engineering Program highlights a UA faculty member who was instrumental in the development of the program. This year’s honored speaker will be Dr. Joseph Gross, Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering and Physiology. Read More - pdf file

Interdisciplinary Poster Session, February 20, 2004

A research poster session featuring the work of faculty and graduate students from 15 life science related departments at the University of Arizona, including Biomedical Engineering, is scheduled on Friday, February 20, 2004 from 8 a.m. - 11 a.m. in the Student Union Grand Ballroom. Breakfast will be available at the poster session. Applicants for admission for fall 2004 who are planning a visit to campus may want to consider timing their trip to include this opportunity.

University Of Arizona/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Partnership To Increase The Number Of Native American Graduate Students

The University of Arizona announces a unique fellowship program aimed at increasing the number of Native American master's and Ph.D.s recipients in science, engineering and agriculture. The program is designed to produce a cadre of highly trained Native Americans who can help spur economic develop in their reservations and communities and occupy leadership positions in academia, government and the corporate world. Read More

Research in engineering and medicine are converging in the UA's biomedical engineering program, where researchers apply engineering concepts to medical problems. Students and faculty of the Biomedical Engineering Program are forging ahead with ideas for healing that may someday include spare parts for humans. This article and other cutting-edge research being done at the UA are featured in the summer issue of the Report on Research magazine, published by the Office of the Vice President for Research.
The entire magazine is available to read online here.

UA Wins R&D 100 Award

Stuart Williams, a professor and director of the UA bioengineering program, has won the prestigious R&D 100 Award for a new device that can create tissues, cell-by-cell, in much the same way that the human body does. The BioAssembly Tool is a digital printer that can create 3-dimensional structures. The device may have applications for patches and meshes, including muscle to repair dead heart tissue resulting from heart attacks. The machine could also assemble tissue to repair damaged lungs, skin patches for burn patients and cartilage to repair knees, shoulders and other joints. Read More

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