Congratulations to Dr. Ruogu Fang (PI), assistant professor, Dr. Mingzhou Ding (Co-PI), distinguished professor and J. Crayton Pruitt Family Professor, and Dr. Andreas Keil (collaborator), professor of psychology for their project, “OR-DRD-AI2020: VCA-DNN: Neuroscience-Inspired Artificial Intelligence for Visual Emotion Recognition”… Read More
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2020 BME Departmental Excellence Award Winners Announced
Congratulations to the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering departmental award winners! Award winners were selected based on submitted nomination materials and faculty CVs/teaching evaluations. Winners were recognized during the department’s annual Holiday Party! Congratulations to the following… Read More
Mansy and collaborators receive funding from UF Office of Research
Congratulations to Dr. May Mansy (Co-PI) and UF collaborators for their recent grant funded by the UF Office of Research on their project, Cultivating equity in STEM classrooms at UF: A multidisciplinary collaboration to create a training course in inclusive,… Read More
Furtney selected to receive HWCOE Undergraduate/Advisor Mentor of the Year Award
Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Furtney, lecturer and undergraduate coordinator, for being selected to receive the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Undergraduate/Advisor Mentor of the Year for 2020-21. This honor, based on an extensive review of her credentials, letters of recommendation,… Read More
BME unveils updated project space for senior design class
The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering officially opened the improved Senior Design space. The room will support students in the biomedical engineering senior design class, a project-based course designed for custom strategies to address real-life issues in… Read More
2020 BME Departmental Excellence Award winners announced
Congratulations to the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering departmental award winners! Award winners were selected based on submitted nomination materials and faculty CVs/teaching evaluations. Winners were recognized during the 2020 BME Annual Holiday Party. Congratulations to the… Read More
Hudalla’s article published in prestigious Nature journal Communications Chemistry
Congratulations to Dr. Gregory Hudalla, associate professor, for his article, “Charge guides pathway selection in β-sheet fibrillizing peptide co-assembly” which has published in the prestigious Nature journal Communications Chemistry. Communications Chemistry Paper Behind The Paper The assembly of peptides into… Read More
Eye Exam Could Lead to Early Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis
Forbes Article Radiological Society of North America Press Release: OAK BROOK, Ill. — A simple eye exam combined with powerful artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning technology could provide early detection of Parkinson’s disease, according to research being presented at the… Read More
BME student selected as a HWCOE scholarship recipient
Congratulations to Gianna Sweeting for being selected as a Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering 2020-2021 scholarship recipient! Her research focuses on multi-scale neuroimaging modeling and segmentation in the SMILE lab with Dr. Ruogu Fang.
9th Annual Pruitt Research Day
Thank you to everyone who participated in our 9th Annual Pruitt Research Day! This successful virtual event included student talks, keynote speaker and poster presentations in celebration of the wonderful research being conducted in the department and the BME community.… Read More