BME News

BME is on the move

We are excited to announce that we have started to move into the new Biomedical Sciences Building.  Our department administration has moved, and you can now find us on the ground floor towards the back of the building (JG-56).  We… Read More

When Phones Can’t Have Buttons Large Enough

Stephen Myers, a Ph.D student in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, has invented a nifty RFID based system to help the elderly and people with bad hands dial the telephone without having to punch any keys. By swiping… Read More

BME student Chelsea Magin receives travel support

The Office of Research is providing student Chelsea Magin $300 in support for her to attend the Society of Women Engineers Annual Conference held in Long Beach, California on October 15-17, 2009. Congratulations on this unique opportunity!

BME student Il Park recieves travel support

The Office of Research is providing student Il Park $300 in support for him to attend the Society for Neuroscience 2009 Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL on October 17-21, 2009. Congratulations on this unique opportunity!

Babak Mahmoudi finalist in IEEE EMBS student competition

BME Ph.D. student Babak Mahmoudi was a finalist at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine Society’s student paper competition with his paper entitled “An Actor-Critic Architecture and Simulator for Goal-Directed Brain-Machine Interfaces”.  The competition took place at the EMBS annual meeting… Read More

Website construction

Pardon our dust.  We are currently working on our new website.  Most of the information is here, but there are a few things still missing.  The faculty directory is not yet complete, so if you see your name missing, we… Read More