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Faculty and Students Take Home Honors
UD biomedical engineers earn national recognition John Slater, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Delaware, won a Rising Star award from the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) group...
Discovering How Cells Divide
UD professor part of NIH grant to understand mechanisms controlling cell division Abhyudai Singh, an associate professor in electrical and computer engineering, biomedical engineering, and mathematical sciences at the University of Delaware, is part of a new...
Art in Science
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ART IN SCIENCE Art in Science competition and exhibit to highlight beauty of science and engineering Students, faculty and staff of the University of Delaware are invited to submit original, research-related artwork for the 2018 Art in Science...
Recent Graduate makes international news
BME Alumni Marjelle Scheffers is part of a team of engineers who have successfully built a wheelchair from bamboo. Read about her success here.
Amanda Studnicki puts Delaware First on the court and in the world
Tennis players know that net play takes nerve, speed, confidence and commitment. “I love to play the net,” says Amanda Studnicki—in life, it seems, as well as on the court. Co-captain of the UD women’s tennis team, Studnicki maintains a 3.98 average in a challenging...
Keeping cancer cells dormant
UD postdoctoral researcher wins grant from Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition The Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition recently awarded a research travel grant to Shantanu Pradhan, a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Delaware Department of Biomedical Engineering....
Support research opportunities for undergraduate students
UD's Summer Scholars Program offers undergraduate students the opportunity to conduct hands-on research and get a glimpse of their future careers. Your gift helps to shape the future of biomedical engineering research, including the detection, treatment and prevention...
Robot Rehab
Biomed engineering professor receives American Heart Association grant to study robot-aided stroke rehabilitation. About every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. Many stroke survivors have lingering brain damage that makes motor tasks, such as...
UD Biomedical Engineering Chair to lead national organization
As president of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Dawn Elliott will focus on education. Dawn Elliott, chair of the University of Delaware’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected president of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). Founded in...
Alumni entrepreneur in the news!
36 Intriguing Delawareans • Amira Idris Could a wearable vibrating device ease the phantom pain felt by people who have lost a limb? Amira Idris, a native of Nigeria who came to the University of Delaware thanks to an academic and track scholarship. is applying her UD...
UD BME students win many awards at national biomechanics conference
Awards for undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni of UD BME department University of Delaware engineering students Sarah Peden, Marjelle Scheffers, Dylan Wergelis-Isaacson and Desik Somasundaram placed third in the Undergraduate Design Competition at the Summer...
UD teams get millions in NSF funding
A nano-lab for observing viruses and cells Gleghorn Lab is part of a team that has been awarded $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to probe how viruses interact with microbes. They will be developing new microfluidics technology to examine how a...