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Twelve BME Students Receive Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarships
Twelve biomedical engineering undergraduate students have received scholarships through the Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarship (UEPS) program.
BME Students are Recognized with Co-op's Mitchell Awards
The University Co-operative Society and The University of Texas at Austin recognized two biomedical engineering undergraduate students with University Co-op George H. Mitchell Student Awards for Academic Excellence at a ceremony on May 2.
ASEE Recognizes Department for Advances in BME Education
The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) has given their Best Paper Award for the Biomedical Engineering Division to Stephen Marek, a lecturer in biomedical engineering, James Tunnell, a professor in biomedical engineering, and chemical engineering student Bill Liechty for their contribution titled "Controlled Drug Delivery from Alginate Spheres in a Design-Based Learning Course.”
Two Students Receive Grants From Whitaker Foundation
Graduate student Lorenzo D’Amico and undergraduate Ross Malik have each received awards to conduct research internationally from the Whitaker International Fellows and Scholars Program.
Peppas Selected as Berkeley Lecturer
Professor Nicholas A. Peppas will speak on April 2 and April 4 at the Berkeley Lectures in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
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New Controlled Release Therapy Leads Over 20,000 tourniquets are used every day in surgeries and to treat injuries. Although tourniquets are a necessary therapy to enable vascular and orthopedic surgeries, the nature in which they cut off blood can cause the unwelcome result of further injuries to muscular tissue in extremeties. Dr. Laura Suggs and Dr. Roger Farrar discuss their research, recently published in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, investigating the use of a therapy that could be used to improve function in skeletal muscle damaged by tourniquet use.