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“The very best undergraduate student with whom I have worked.” “The most excellent student I have encountered in my six years of teaching at UT.”

This is just some of the high praise for Aidan Weitzner, this year’s Outstanding Scholar-Leader for the Cockrell School of Engineering. Recognized for her hard work and dedication inside and outside the classroom, Weitzner, a biomedical engineering honors student, graduates with a 4.0 GPA and an MCAT score in the 99th percentile.

Roger Bonnecaze, an internationally recognized expert in rheology and modeling and simulation for nanomanufacturing who has served as a faculty member at The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 30 years, has been named dean of the university’s Cockrell School of Engineering after a national search.

Last week, The University of Texas at Austin granted 120 bachelor's degrees, 12 master's degrees (seven of which were integrated bachelor's/master's), and 6 doctoral degrees in biomedical engineering. 

The second class of Clinical Innovation Design (CID) Fellows finished their nine-month program with a presentation of their identified clinical need and proposed solution on Monday, May 9, 2022.

UT’s Office of the Senior Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies has awarded Yuan-I (Nina) Chen, a graduate student working with Dr. Tim Yeh, with the 2022 Outstanding Dissertation Award for Mathematics, Engineering, Physical Science, and Biological and Life Sciences.


Aaron Tasset, a second-year graduate student working in Evan Wang’s lab, was recently awarded the Department of Defense (DoD) National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) fellowship, which will provide him with three years of support.

Samantha Santacruz and Sapun Parekh

Two Texas BME faculty, Assistant Professor Sapun Parekh and Assistant Professor Samantha Santacruz, have received Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF). CAREER awards are among the NSF’s most prestigious in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department. 

Three Texas BME students, Adrian Jeyakumar, Morgan Owens, and Andrew Robinson, were honored with Student Leader Awards from the Cockrell's Engineering Student Life in recognition of their work to motivate, guide, mentor, and support Cockrell School's student organizations.

Three current students in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and several admitted prospective graduate students have received 2022 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships that will allow them to pursue graduate studies in the biomedical field.

Cancer researchers, including Dr. Amy Brock, talk with Nature about expanding the tumor barcoding toolkit to track cancer cells over time in order to learn about mutations that cause therapy resistance, including with Brock's innovative ClonMapper technique.