Earlier this month, faculty, staff and students from the UF BME community came out to celebrate the end of the academic year at our 3rd Annual Lake Wauburg Networking Event. It was a beautiful day on the lake for paddle… Read More
The Health Physics Society (HPS) has awarded fellowships for continuing graduate studies in health physics to BME graduate students Michelle Sands and Heather Petroccia. In addition to receiving $5,000 for the purpose of supporting their graduate work at the University… Read More
Congratulations to the 2015 class of BME Undergraduates! As part of a new annual tradition, the department held a graduation reception and pinning ceremony at the UF Hilton on May 3rd to celebrate the new class of bachelors graduates. Faculty,… Read More
The J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering is sending off Dr. Bruce Wheeler to both retirement from UF (with Emeritus Professor status) and to the position of Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California at San… Read More
Dr. Wesley Bolch will travel to Vienna this June to serve as a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR). Bolch is the associate dean for academic affairs for… Read More
Congratulations to Drs. Gunduz, Schmidt and Sharma who were all awarded UF Research Opportunity Seed Grants! The UF Research Opportunity Seed Fund is an annual seed grant program that targets interdisciplinary, faculty-initiated research initiatives with potential for extramural support.… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Huabei Jiang who was recently highlighted in a Reuters.com article (posted below) for an award he received for the invention of the JBI-360 Breast Imaging System. Dr. Jiang was honored with a 2015 Technology Innovator Award during… Read More
Last month, UF President Kent Fuchs announced the formation of a task force to guide a campus-wide goal-setting effort designed to develop the university’s shared priorities for the next five to ten years. The task force—composed of faculty, students and… Read More
This year, the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering implemented a new series of departmental awards in BME to recognize our excellent faculty and students. Award winners were selected based on submitted nomination materials and faculty CVs/teaching evaluations.… Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Benjamin Keselowsky who has been named a UF Research Foundation Professor for 2015-2018. The University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) Professorships are awarded to tenured faculty members with a “distinguished current record of research”, in recognition of… Read More